Jizo Bodhisattva brings forward the archetypal qualities of compassion, fearlessness and optimism. Our hope is that these offerings will cultivate our individual and collective capacity to accept and engage with what is painful and difficult. Jizo vows to walk into the fires of suffering, and to accompany all beings across to the safety and equanimity of awakening.

A Ceremony for Those Who Have Died
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in the Yurt at Green Gulch Farm
In this afternoon event, people of all walks of life and loss gather to acknowledge and mourn the death of those who have died. We first create handmade offerings in the Japanese Buddhist tradition of Jizo Bodhisattva, and then say goodbye in a ceremony of remembrance and letting go. Our time together ends with a procession to the garden, where we tie paper prayers on the memorial cherry tree with the intention of nurturing the beings who have died and the beings who continue to live.
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