Recent Quarterly Visits by Roshi Daiken
May 17 – 19, 2024
Public Talk @ Robert A. Lee Rec Center
Teisho / Dharma Talk
Potluck, Zazenkai, and Installation Ceremony
with Daiken Nelson
January 26th – 28th, 2024
Friday Potluck at the Zen Center
Saturday Zazenkai
(All Day Meditation Retreat)
Roshi Daiken Nelson’s Installation Ceremony as Interim Guiding Teacher
Sunday, January 26th
Below is a video of the Installation Ceremony (Jp. Shisanshiki),
including Roshi Daiken’s poems at various altars throughout the Center,
his engagement in “Dharma Combat”
and his Dharma Talk “What is a Teacher.”
(video thanks to David Thole)
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:
Daiken offers poems:
First Poem: “Temple Gate” — Front Door
Second Poem: Ancestors’ Altar / Founder’s Altar
Third Poem: Outside Buddha Hall
Regular Entrance into Buddha Hall
Incense Offering
3 Bows (All)
Heart Sutra — English
Sho Sai Myo Kichijo Dharani (1x-slowly)
En Mei Jukku Kannon Gyo — 3x
Hossenshiki (Dharma “Combat” — Questions & Response)
Short Dharma Talk — What Is A Teacher?
Bodhisattva Vows
3 Bows
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Memorial Service for former Guiding Teacher
Dainei Appelbaum
August 2022
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Iowa City Zen Center 