Election Day 24 Hour Meditation Vigil
With Abby Mushin Terris, Jogen Salzberg, Sensei, Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi, Amy Kisei, Sensei, Lama Lekshe, Hogen Bays, Roshi, Patrick Bansho Green, Laura Jomon Martin, Larry Fuho Trussell and Kodo Conover
November 3 - 4, 2020
Join us for a full day of Zazen, guided meditation, loving kindness practice, chanting and prayer as we hold space and bear witness to this moment in history – Election Day 2020.
A vigil is a sacred vessel that holds our fears, griefs, anxieties, reactivity, restlessness, love, prayers, courage, care, desperation, numbness, hope and despair. We bear witness, by showing up for ourselves, our community and our world in the embodied way that is our zazen practice. We sit upright, in the fires of change and deep feeling, as a Bodhisattva, the heart oriented towards loving kindness, compassion, joy and peace.
This vigil will be hosted by Great Vow and take place on the zoom app. Every hour we will have either a period of zazen, guided meditation, loving kindness practice, movement practice, or chanting. You are welcome to come and go as you please, the Great Vow residents will be holding space for the entire 24 hours. Teachers from the community will be guiding different practices at different times throughout the 24 hours. ElectionDayVIGIL – Schedule Here
Collective practice is collective liberation. Support others with your deep intention to show up for love, freedom and justice.
For as long as space endures, and for as long as living beings remain, so then may I too abide, to dispel the misery of the world. – HH the Dali Lama
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About the Leaders
Abby Mushin Terris
Abby Mushin Terris has been practicing Zen since 1977. In 1992 she began Corvallis Zen Circle, a small sitting group that now has evolved into Sangha Jewel Temple where she is the guiding teacher. Mushin received Lay Transmission from Chozen Roshi in 2013 and is one of the sesshin leaders in ZCO. She also works […]
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Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Jogen Salzberg, Sensei has been practicing Zen since 1997, entered monastic training at Great Vow in 2003 and received Dharma Transmission from Chozen Bays, Roshi and Hogen Bays, Roshi in 2017. Jogen leads the weekly Wednesday evening meditation gathering. His teaching draws on the teachings and practices of Zen, with inspiration from the Dzogchen tradition, […]
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Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973. She received Jukai (lay precepts) in 1975 and Tokudo, Priest's Ordination, in 1979 from Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. From 1978 to 1983 she lived at Zen Center of Los Angeles, studying with Maezumi, Roshi and directing the Zen Center's non-profit Medical Clinic. She finished […]
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Amy Kisei, Sensei
Amy Kisei, Sensei is an authorized Zen teacher, zen priest, spiritual counselor and mindfulness instructor. She has been practicing meditation for almost 20 years. Kisei has 12 years of monastic training and teaching experience from Great Vow Zen Monastery, and holds a BS in Earth Science and Gender Studies. She is trained in Mindful Eating […]
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Lama Lekshe
Lama Lekshe (Julia King Tamang) has been praticing Tibetan Buddhism since 1994 in Portland, Oregon, Nepal and India. Her teachers are Bokar Rinpoche, Khenpo Lodro Donyo Rinpoche, and Lama Michael Conklin. In 2018, she completed a traditional 3-year meditation retreat in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. Before retreat, was a university teacher and a consultant to colleges. Lekshe is the […]
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Hogen Bays, Roshi
Hogen Bays, Roshi began practicing in 1968 with Philip Kapleau, Roshi and was part of the residential staff at Zen Center of Rochester in Rochester, New York until 1975. He lived and trained at Zen Center of Los Angeles under the direction of Taizan Maezumi, Roshi from 1980-1984. In 1990 he took priest’s ordination […]
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Patrick Bansho Green
Patrick Bansho Green has practiced with the Zen Community of Oregon since 2004 and received Lay Transmission from Chozen Bays and Hogen Bays in 2019, priest ordination in 2021, and completed Preceptor Authorization and Dharma Transmission in 2023. As board president, he led the effort to found Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, a lay practice […]
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Laura Jomon Martin
Laura Jomon Martin has been practicing Zen since 2004 and in 2016 was made a Dharma Holder. Her career has been in social work since 1993, primarily in community mental health, and she is currently an LCSW in private practice, and a teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, certified through University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Larry Fuho Trussell
Larry Fuho Trussell has been practicing Zen since 1976, and received Lay Transmission from Chozen and Hogen Roshi in 2015. Fuho is the lead teacher on Sunday mornings at Heart of Wisdom. He is one of the sesshin leaders in ZCO. He works as a research scientist and is married with one grown son.
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Kodo Conover
Nancy Kodo Conover has been practicing Zen since 2000 and received Lay Transmission from Chozen and Hogen Roshi in 2015, ordained as a temple priest in 2021 and received Dharma Transmission and Preceptor authorization in 2023. Kodo retired from a career as a vocational rehabilitation counselor to help establish Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple and […]
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