Getting to Know Our Streets: 

A Day of Action and Reflection

Cutting Vegetables for the Soup Kitchen at St. James

Led by Sensei Jitsujo Gauthier & John Kyogen Rosania

Sunday, February 16 • 12:30 p.m.

In-person Only

SCHEDULE

ZCLA will have its regularly scheduled Sunday Morning program*

12:30 p.m. Eat lunch together

1:30 Intention setting on the Sangha House porch

1:45-3:00 Cutting vegetables and Clean-up together

3:00-3:30 Closing Circle

3:30 p.m. Deliver the food

*All are encouraged to join.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Living in Los Angeles, the word “street” runs deep, both in the city and in us. Class, race, gender, survival, trash, violence, cars, movement are just some of the meanings embedded into this word and into our lives.

Join us for a day to explore how we can begin to partner with our neighbors and other religious organizations to get to know what is happening on our streets – how they affect us and how we affect the streets. We will eat together, set our intention, cut vegetables for the soup kitchen program at St. James Episcople Church in our neighborhood, hold a closing circle council, and deliver the food. Participants will have the opportunity to gently stretch their ‘window of tolerance’ around hesitations, fears, feelings, and resistance to develop more awareness about life on the streets

EVENT STEWARDS

Sensei Jitsujo T. Gauthier is a Zen priest, preceptor and Dharma Holder at the Zen Center of Los Angeles, as well as a member of the Zen Peacemakers International. She received Dharma Transmission (denbo) from Roshi Egyoku in 2024. She is also an Assistant Professor and current Chair of the Buddhist Chaplaincy department at University of the West in Los Angeles County. She explores and practices of the Three Tenets in the classroom, chaplaincy work, as well as within seated meditation.

John Kyogen Rosania has been the 2023-2024 Head Trainee under the guidance of Sensei Katherine Daiki Senshin Griffith. He has been a resident at ZCLA since 2015. He began Zen practice at age 19, experienced sitting with various Zen communities throughout his twenties, and began steadier formal practice with Sensei Daishin Buksbazen at Ocean Moon Sangha in Santa Monica. He is currently ZCLA’s Board Secretary and works as a psychotherapist in community mental health and in private practice.This spring he was given priest ordination by Reverend Jitsujo Gauthier.

EVENT REGISTRATION & FEE

There is no fee for this event, however donations are always welcome. To register, send an email to Kyogen at jrosan@protonmail.com.