The schedule will include zazen, service, walking meditation and dharma talks using some of Katherine’s students’ writing and parts of her unpublished studies.
Schedule
8:30 Zazen
9:10 Service (Heart Sutra and Merging of Difference and Unity)
9:30 Kinhin
9:40 Zazen
10:10 Katherine reflection; then stretching or walking outdoors
10:30 Zazen
11:00 Kinhin
11:10 Dharma talk
11:45 Service (Metta Sutta)
12:00 closure
Photo by Edie Brown
Karin Sobun Katherine Thanas
Sobun Katherine Thanas (1927-2012) was our beloved dharma teacher and Abbot. She trained with Suzuki Roshi at Sokoji, San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Farm. She was lay ordained by Suzuki Roshi, priest ordained by Zentatsu Baker Roshi in 1975, and received dharma transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1988. She became head teacher of the Santa Cruz Zen Center in 1989, and was installed as the Abbot in 2002. Katherine's legacy is her ability to translate formal monastic training into meaningful understanding of our everyday life. Her sharp wit, scholarly engagement with scripture, and deep compassion defined her teachings. She has touched the minds and hearts of many students.