{"id":680,"date":"2009-06-17T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/06\/rev-jiho-sargent-has-passed.html"},"modified":"2009-06-17T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T10:29:11","slug":"rev-jiho-sargent-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/06\/rev-jiho-sargent-has-passed.html","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Jiho Sargent Has Passed &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rev. Jiho Sargent<\/span> has left this little world. A Soto priest, a friend, guide, mother and  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">tough as nails<\/span>voice of reason and common sense for many people from around the world who sat Zazen with her in Tokyo over many years. I consider her informally one of my guiding teachers, a great inspiration for the creation of Treeleaf Sangha. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"5832\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\" contenteditable=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Jiho Optimized Cut Final.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/Jiho%20Optimized%20Cut%20Final-thumb-252x286-5831.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"252\" height=\"286\" \/><\/form>\n<div align=\"right\">I believethat I first sat with her in 1989 at the temple in Tokyo were she was apriest (Taisoji). She became a priest late in life, at age 49, and wasalso one of the few Westerners to be trained in a fully Japanese wayexclusively in Japan (at the Soto school&#8217;s special monasteries forwomen) and then served as an ordinary &#8220;parish priest&#8221; at Taisojiinvolved in the more mundane, &#8220;day-to-day&#8221; duties of a Zen priest inJapan &#8230; a very unusual path for most foreign teachers.&nbsp; She also fought for the rights of female priests in the &#8220;man&#8217;s world&#8221; of Japanese Zen Buddhism.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">She is the author of a book called &#8220;<i>Asking About Zen<\/i>&#8221; (also available in German, Spanish and some other languages)<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Asking-About-Zen-108-Answers\/dp\/0834804948<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">&#8230;which was rather unusual for a Zen book, and can best be described as a&#8221;nuts and bolts,&#8221; &#8220;tell it like it is&#8221; dry, &#8220;bringing it down to earth&#8221;guide to many subjects which are explained rarely if ever to Zenstudents (and thus, are misunderstood by the great majority -especially Westerners). Jiho had a &#8220;set the record straight&#8221; style thatallowed her to comment on many aspects of Zen as it has come to bepracticed in the West that are usually ignored or &#8220;papered over&#8221; byother writers because they are rather controversial within the Zencommunity (a lot of the same subjects we freely discuss here atTreeleaf, in fact &#8230; she was a TREMENDOUS influence and source of muchof what we do, and how we do it, in this Treeleaf Sangha).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">If you would like to read a bit more about her, here is a simple newspaper interviewshe gave many yearsago (I am not sure that all the quotes by her are exact, by the way, asthe reporter may have been paraphrasing) &#8230;<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn19980608a9.html<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\"><b><u>We will have a special Zazenkai this weekend that will include a memorialservice for Jiho &#8230; I hope you will sit-a-long<\/u> &#8230;<\/b><\/font><\/div>\n<p>Gassho,  Jundo<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1pt;\">\n<p class=\"Default\" style=\"border: medium none ; padding: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D-RdVgUHKQQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D-RdVgUHKQQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/object><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;<\/u><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><u>a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)<\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn19980608a9.html\">To subscribe to &#8220;Treeleaf Zen&#8221; click here.<\/a><o:p><\/o:p> <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. 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