Two of our sangha members, Frank Fischer and Jonathan Elmergreen, will be ordained as lay Soto Zen practitioners. For several months, they have diligently been sewing their rakusu, the mini version of the okesa (Buddha’s robe), and studied the Soto Zen precepts.

The ceremony - Zaike Tokudo, Ceremony of Staying Home and Attaining Liberation - is very similar to the priest ordination, only there you would be leaving home.

It will take place at 10:30 am on Sunday, November 6, and family, friends and sangha members are warmly invited, either in the zendo or on zoom (349 905 3117, password 2825). There will be no Sunday talk, but you may enjoy a cup of tea in the meeting room while the ceremony is being set up. After the ceremony everybody is invited to stay for a reception.