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Lineage Keepers<\/h1>\n

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How many times have you watched someone be ordained?<\/span><\/p>\n

To ordain is \u201cto appoint or admit to the ministry\u201d.\u00a0 The notion is “to confer holy orders upon.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In my 70 year<\/span>s, I\u2019ve n<\/span>ever seen it. I didn\u2019t know what to expect. When I think about it, before meeting Tony Bonnici, I had never met someone who had grown up in a temple, especially not in the United States. I feel privileged to have witnessed some of the steps that led up to this ceremony.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As early as Tony can remember, his parents\u2019 home has been set up as a temple with people coming for <\/span>dharma<\/span><\/i> talks and meditation sessions. His father is a Zen <\/span>roshi<\/span><\/i>. He would wake up Tony and his brother every morning at 6 am to ring an enormous hanging bell that started the day for their family – and no doubt for the surrounding neighbors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Temple life became a source of embarrassment for Tony as he grew older and went through the normal childhood and teenage stages of wanting to \u201cbe like everybody else\u201d and wanting to rebel against anything his parents wanted him to do.\u00a0 As a young adult, he had <\/span>broken dozens of bones in his body, having done Olympic-level judo and competed as a pro wakeboarder.<\/span> He lived his life in the fast lane, working furiously to make a lot of money as quickly as possible. <\/span>Tony was this guy who had <\/span>not a particularly Zen approach to living mindfully!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

His dad nevertheless saw a more thoughtful side of Tony and 21 years ago officially dubbed him with a Zen name as a lay member of his Zen tradition. Fine. Whatever. Tony didn\u2019t have time. He kept rolling with his fast cars and frenetic pace of work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Tony experienced the crash and burn results that life in the fast lane is prone to produce. As a husband and dad, Tony eventually recognized the need to settle down, become the family man that he in fact was, and find a more sustainable lifestyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s just about the time I got to know Tony w<\/span>hen I went to visit my Nia friend Amber, his wife, for the first in 2009<\/span>. <\/span>He was no longer working on flashy cars for millionaires, now winding down his failed businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He began \u201csitting\u201d for meditation in the mornings, just as his dad would have him and his brother do when they were youngsters. <\/span>Tony was turning himself into a professional life coach. I\u00a0 saw Buddha and Kwan Yin statues keeping watch over a few\u00a0 corners of their house. But, you know, lots of groovy people have statues like that for decoration. They even sell this stuff at places like Home Depot. Nothing about him screamed: \u201cI\u2019m a Zen <\/span>roshi <\/span><\/i>in training!\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By the second time I met Tony, I had taken two painting workshops at Still & Moving Center with his wife Amber [see fish that talk article], but had been unable to complete my painting in the second workshop. I had painted a nun-like lady, and I left with the strong feeling she needed one of those empty begging bowls that such people use to symbolize humility. Using my paint brush, I turned the mountains behind her into a bowl surrounding my lady. Nope. I felt frustrated that I could not get\u00a0 my bowl concept to work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to visit Amber anyway for a private lesson, so I packed up my unfinished painting along with a new canvas and flew to the Big Island, where they live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Amber had already told me that Tony had grown up with Zen Buddhist parents, and the nun-like lady in my painting looked very Zen to me. So I unwrapped my incomplete painting in front of both Amber and Tony. I blurted out: \u201cHere\u2019s my painting that I just can\u2019t get to work. She\u2019s supposed to have one of those empty bowls that the monks carry. So see, I made some mountains into a bowl around her\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My voice trailed off. Tony had inspired in me a sudden realization without even saying a word. I suddenly felt as if I were looking at the painting through Tony\u2019s Zen eyes. I exclaimed, \u201cOh! I guess my bowl isn\u2019t empty, is it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony smiled warmly and\u00a0 replied, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I went on, \u201cShe\u2019s in the middle of the bowl herself! So how can it be empty?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can\u2019t,\u201d agreed Tony with a quiet knowing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I undertook the difficult task of figuring out how to paint an outstretched hand holding a (truly) empty bowl, added a strawberry and tiger from a Zen tale, and –\u00a0 thanks to Tony\u2019s silent influence – I finally completed my painting. Whew.<\/span><\/p>\n

A couple years later, Tony successfully coached our older son through a very stressful period in his life by teaching him a Zen deep belly breathing meditation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw how much help with calm and clarity Tony had provided to Shankar. Then when I recognized that I needed someone to talk me through my Still & Moving Center business decisions, I chose Tony as my business coach.\u00a0 I think something of the Zen approach appeals to me. There are no fixed answers, it\u2019s the questioning and listening that counts. It\u2019s the emptiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony has a receptive way of listening that creates the space for\u00a0 my own inner realizations. To Tony, my seemingly difficult situations are all opportunities for new discoveries.\u00a0 It\u2019s that\u00a0 Zen \u201cbeginner\u2019s mind\u201d perspective.\u00a0 Tony\u2019s been steadily holding the empty bowl for me since about 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019ve gotten to know his mom, Diana Bonnici, who attends my Gems from the Wisdom Traditions conversation circles. She\u2019s also a beautiful soul and life coach who holds a safe, loving space for others. Diana had been a devout Christian when early in her marriage, her husband made a humongous life change. He became a Zen <\/span>roshi<\/span><\/i> – something between a priest and a monk. And she gradually adapted to this new life.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony\u2019s mom and dad loved it when Tony began holding his own Meditation Sangha sessions for others last year. At his home with Amber on the Big Island, Tony now gives <\/span>dharma<\/span><\/i> talks and sitting meditations. In fact, we host his Tuesday evening sessions for Still & Moving folks to join online <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A few months ago, Tony told me his dad had invited him to take up the family lineage and become a Zen <\/span>roshi<\/span><\/i> himself. \u201cWhat?!? That seems like a very big deal. Are you going to do it?\u201d I ask.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell sure. I think I\u2019ve been preparing for this for a long time. It feels pretty natural,\u201d he replies. And I have to agree. He has.<\/span><\/p>\n

So Tony spends several months of intense training sessions with his father and mother, learning protocol and memorizing sacred chants in Japanese. Every time he goes to their temple home in Kawaihae, they all end up crying, so touched by what is about to happen in their family.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the day of the ordination, Tony picks me up at the Kona airport. He\u2019s remarkably calm for someone on the brink of entering such a sacred ceremony. That\u2019s Zen training for you, right? Arriving at Tony\u2019s mom and dad\u2019s house temple – immaculately clean, organized, well designed, not large but spacious – I immediately feel grounded by its serenity. Beautiful artwork and statues calmly keep the space.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it\u2019s time for the ceremony, Tony\u2019s mom conducts us into the temple room with an altar. Amber, their son, and five of us guests take our seats on floor cushions.\u00a0 One of the guests wears his charcoal-colored priestly robe as a <\/span>roshi <\/span><\/i>from another Zen Buddhist tradition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony\u2019s mom Diana starts the ceremony by striking the same three-foot tall\u00a0 bell that they wake up to each morning.\u00a0 Tony and his father each enter wearing the simple brown Zen robes of their tradition. The father speaks, explaining the meaning of the ceremony. They go through chanting and vows, culminating in Tony taking the bodhisattva vow to be of service to all beings for all time. Just the thought of the vow makes me shudder with its profundity. It\u2019s huge.<\/span><\/p>\n

His father ordains Tony with his roshi name: Seijaku Issan, meaning \u201cupright stillness\u201d. How apt as a name to grow into.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now his father is about to gift Tony with the ceremonial <\/span>\u201cnyoi\u201d <\/span><\/i>stick that he found as a piece of redwood outside another Zen temple decades ago. The father tells how he crafted the wood by hand into a traditional <\/span>\u201cnyoi\u201d<\/span><\/i>, and how it has served him in his duties as a <\/span>roshi<\/span><\/i> ever since that time. I can tell from the way he\u2019s holding and talking about it, how much spiritual energy he has invested into this now sacred object.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tony, his dad, mom, and wife already have tears brimming over by this time. I am still \u201cdry\u201d. But when Tony\u2019s dad hands over his beloved <\/span>nyoi <\/span><\/i>stick to Tony, my eyes spill over, too. It\u2019s such a potent symbol of the entire lineage of teaching that the father is entrusting his son to move forward.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ceremony concludes. We can all now take photos, enjoy food,\u00a0 and congratulate the family.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is the first time I have ever been blessed to witness an ordination ceremony, father to son, passing down a sacred tradition. I feel proud of my friend for opening himself to the <\/span>depth and honor of a lineage<\/span> he\u2019d spent a long time rejecting.\u00a0 It feels as though the whole world is a little bit better place because of this transmission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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