Join members of the All Beings Zen Sangha in offering our gratitude to Sojun Roshi for his many years of service and teaching. Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman is the Dharma teacher of our first guiding teacher, Dairyū Michael Wenger. Our current guiding teacher Rev. Inryu, Sensei received Dharma transmission for Dairyū. All of those who receive precepts in our ABZ Sangha have Sojun Roshi as their Great-Grandfather in our Suzuki Roshi Lineage. 
Saturday, October 24: Stepping Down Ceremony and Stepping Into Founding Dharma Teacher Ceremony of Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi, 6:00 pm EST (at the Berkeley Zen Center’s online zendo,
Here is a recording of the ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKMrXXffRg
It begins with incense offerings outdoors around the Berkeley ZC grounds
and the speaking begins around 25 minutes in. You will see that Sojun
Roshi needed some assistance walking and has lost a lot of weight due to
cancer of the bile duct, which he was diagnosed with at the end of
September, 2019.
