Getting to Know Our Streets: 

A Day of Action and Reflection

Led by Reverend Jitsujo Gauthier & John Kyogen Rosania

Saturday, September 14 • 12:30 p.m.

In-person Only

SCHEDULE

10:45-11:45 a.m. Fall practice period council*

11:45-12:30 p.m. Eat lunch together

12:30- 12:45 Intention setting on the Sangha House porch

12:45-1:45 Make bags together

2:00-4:00 Give out bags in K-Town

4:00-5:15 Council: Exploring the Streets of Los Angeles

5:30 p.m. End

*All are encouraged to join the ZCLA morning service (8:30 a.m. in the Buddha Hall) and sit the first period (9 a.m. in the zendo).

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 the street affects us and how we affect the streets. Together, we will do council, eat together, make food to distribute to those in the street, and then come back together to reflect. Participants will have the opportunity to gently stretch their ‘window of tolerance’ around hesitations, fears, feelings, and resistance to engaging with life on the streets!

For those wondering about the upcoming Weekend Wander in November, as a first step, come explore your interests, worries, and barriers.

EVENT STEWARDS

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 is also an Associate Professor and Co-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.