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Our annual 8-month study group on the Zen Precepts. The group will be led by Myoki Raizelah Bayen and Juriki Samuel Senerchia.
This class and community is for Zen practitioners interested in deepening their relationship to their practice and their lives through the study of the Zen Precepts.
All are welcome. Students moving towards Jukai are expected to attend all sessions plus the Jukai ceremony at the Fall Samish Sesshin. If you are interested in receiving Jukai this year, please see the Going Further page on the website and speak with a teacher for information on the process.
Each group meeting will include discussion, experiential exercises, and reflection in small groups on what these precepts mean for us as human beings and students of Zen, reflecting on the teachers' comments.
A second monthly meeting is self-organized by smaller study groups to discuss the readings and further reflect on how the precepts show up in their lives. Responses can be written, artistic, or verbal.
The study group concludes with a half-day retreat in August.
Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts by Nancy Mujo Baker
Myoki Raizelah Bayen was shuso, head student, during the 2024 Winter Practice Period when she explored the Eihei Dogen's Genjokoan in her shuso's class. Raizelah has 20+ years of teaching yoga, embodiment, mindful massage and inquiry practices. She received priest ordination with Hoka Chris Fortin in 2025.
Juriki Samuel Senerchia began meditation practice at Bellingham Peace Education Center, Aikido Do-jo in 1992, also that year spending time with Thich Nhat Hanh, he began continuous daily practice (with annual sesshins). He received Jukai from Reb Anderson in 1998 while in a two year residency at SFZC, where he did numerous practice periods led by Tenshin Anderson and Zoketsu Fischer, including one at Tassajara and one at SMZC with Jakusho Kwong. In 1999 he was married in a Zen Precepts ceremony by Eijun Cutts, and for the past 27 years he has devoted himself to family while practicing deeply in Zen and other wisdom traditions. He practiced at Upaya with Jiko Halifax and is now a Palliative Care Chaplain preparing for priest ordination with Nomon Tim.
Red Cedar Zen Community is a 501(c) non-profit organization.
