Our Special Zazenkai & Talk with Rev. Tonen O'Connor is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!
WELCOME to our special Zazenkai guided by the Rev. Tonen O'Connor of the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Zen Center ...
... LIVE from Treeleaf Tsukuba!
The festivities will begin at 10pm Japan time Sunday (that is New York 8am, Los Angeles 5am, London 1pm and Paris 2pm, all Sunday Dec. 21st).
The event is expected to last about 90 minutes or so. The content will consist of one sitting of Zazen, Kinhin, Tonen's Talk and a Q&A with our live participants, and perhaps a bit of Chanting. I apologize that we need to be a bit flexible on the timing and content this time, but just follow along! :)
A list of our "two way" live sitters is below. For "one way" sitters, the Zazenkai will be visible on the following screen during the above times and sit-a-long-able any time thereafter ... We are all "not two" way sitters! ...
http://youtu.be/JWRkzZxPvw4
Additional group (and the lighting is a bit better) ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQfgbkzqKA
Quote:
Tonen O’Connor was MZC's Resident Priest from 2001 until retiring from that role in 2011. She received ordination from Tozen Akiyama in 1994, dharma transmission in 1999 and in 2000 performed the ceremony of zuise at Eiheiji and Sojiji, head temples of the Soto school in Japan. She trained in Japan at Shogoji, Hosshinji and Hokyoji, and holds the rank of nitokyoshi within the Japanese Soto system as well as a four-year assignment as kokusaifukyoshi.
For over fifteen years she has worked extensively with inmates within the Wisconsin correctional system, served on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Religious Practices Advisory Committee and gave a presentation on this work at a conference in Tokyo in 2008. Tonen served as chair of the Committee on Interfaith Understanding, is past President of the Board of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and, with Zuiko Redding of the Cedar Rapids Zen Center, is co-founder of the Great Sky Sesshin, held annually for eight years at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in Minnesota.
Prior to entering the Zen world, Rev. O’Connor had a 40-year career in the professional theater and was managing director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1974-1995. Tonen holds a Bachelor's degree with high honors from Swarthmore College and an M.A. From Tufts University. Tonen is the editor of Buddhas Behind Bars, has a response included in The Hidden Lamp and her translation of Kodo Sawaki's Commentary on The Song of Awakening will be published in spring 2014. She has two sons, four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and lives happily with two splendid cats.
Gassho, Jundo
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List of Live "TWO WAY" Sitters:
MAKE SURE YOU ARE "FOLLOWING" YOUR RESPECTIVE PAGE. PM DOSHO IF NOT SURE YOU ARE.
The following folks are in the Circle on our Treeleaf Google Plus Page called "Tonen Zazenkai Circle" ...
https://plus.google.com/b/1169304486...90706458/posts
Troy
Bryson
Shinzan
Walter
Nindo
Sekishi
Shokai
Shingen
Kyonin
The following folks are on our second "Treeleaf Jukai 1" Google Plus Page in "More Tonen Circle" ...
https://plus.google.com/b/1124127938...09963606/posts
Joyo
Jizu
Daizan
Shawn
Nameless John
John H
Dosho
Yugen
Shugen
Our Special Zazenkai & Talk with Rev. Tonen O'Connor is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!
I'm looking forward to it!
Deep bows
Yugen
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Our Special Zazenkai & Talk with Rev. Tonen O'Connor is Here! Please Sit-A-Long!
Thank you Tonen! I enjoyed the talk. I am inspired by your work with the inmates. My brother in law is getting out soon and will be staying with us for a while. Thank you Sangha for my first live sit :)
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