9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)

Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM

Speaker: Jyozen

Jyozen is the current Jushoku of Kanzeonji. He is a descendent of Matsuoka Roshi through his teacher Ryugen Watanabe. Personal meditation began has a youth during martial arts practice. The change to a more spiritual practice came doing kyudo (zen archery) with Kaizan Kosaka Sensei. Kosaka Sensei is a Shingon Buddhist priest, his Buddhist training and traditional Japanese upbringing infused itself in all aspects of his life, which flowed into the life of some of his students.  Then in 1996, to strengthen this aspect of his kyudo, jyozen found and joined the sangha at Kanzeonji.