Sit, Breathe, Bow

Ian White Maher

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

Rev. Teijo Munnich

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The spiritual practice of sharing the dharma is not a form of entertainment. This is something we do to find out what life is. At the foundation of the practice is dana or generosity.

Rev. Liên Shutt

Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

When you’re living the precepts, when you’re living according to your values, then meditation becomes much easier because the precepts are the foundation for what it means to do the work of meditation.

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

So many people are chasing after happiness like it is something that can be attained. But happiness comes and goes. How can you be with "what is" in this moment?

Sosan Theresa Flynn

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

This practice invites us to be vulnerable, open, and intimate. This is incredibly challenging and requires courage, but it also is the only way to look deeply into who we are.

Chimyo Atkinson

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Living in the dharma allows us to be vulnerable and to connect with the rest of the universe. Practice dismantles the habits of trying to build up the delusions around us.

Dojin Sarah Emerson

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000

When we are being choice-full, we are able to live into our values, we can live into the things we care about.

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

How can we not be deluded? By investigating the great matter of life and death, we see what our thinking creates. By using the Four Great Vows as a guide we see more clearly how to help.

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Practice is doing something with intention. You enter into a moment deliberately. You choose into it. There is a willingness to be here. It is an attitude of mind.

Myozen Joan Amaral

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000

There is a process of growing into our roles as students and as teachers. There is a discipline but also a willingness to play and even provoke as we find a way to live within the tradition and to make it a home of our own.

Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Each of us has a job to do and it depends on what is happening right in front of us. There is a role we play that asks for something specific. What is your job?

Tenku Ruff, Osho

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The challenges of the pandemic can provide the opportunity for us to see deeply into the many ways that we can connect with others.

Matthew Kozan Palevsky

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Kozan shares his own journey as a priest and activist and how we can use the practice to provide a foundation for our work as people committed to healing our communities.

Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

What is a great woman? The practice of Zen is about looking inward and seeing who you really are and what this life is about.

Charlie Korin Pokorny

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Everything is Included Here. Practice isn't about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.

Daigaku Rummé

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don't make distinctions, don't make differences, and live your life in the present.

Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The essence of faith is not faith in some thing. It is not an object. It is the absence of doubt. When we are truly entrusting in the heart, there is no faith there just is no doubt. Faith is the eyes we are looking through, the ears we are hearing with. It is the doubtless, present awareness that allows what is arising to arise as intimate and worthy of engaging.

Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000

We are constantly trying to distract ourselves from our busy day or an uncomfortable reality. But if we don't make anything or distract ourselves, then our lives are not a problem.

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN, discusses what living in a Zen community can do for your practice. Your zen family will change you for the better, even if you can't see it in the moment. If you have the chance, please try living in community.

Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Ellen Birx, Roshi, is fully immersed and fully committed to both Zen Buddhism and Christianity. She doesn't collapse either into the other but allows the two paths the full integrity of their truth all the while following them into the ineffable.

Rev. Kokyo Henkel

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Rev. Kokyo Henkel began practicing Zen in 1990 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo has also been practicing with the Tibetan Dzogchen teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche since 2003. Kokyo served as a teacher at the Santa Cruz Zen Center from 2010 to 2020.You can find out more by visiting Kokyo's websitehttps://kokyohenkel.weebly.com/Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zenhttps://kwanumzenonline.org

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN, began practicing in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition — Diamond Way — in 1990. But in 1992, he sat a two-day retreat with Zen Master Seung Sahn in Berlin and has practiced with the Kwan Um School ever since. In April 2010, Arne received Inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Wu Bong. And today he serves as the guiding teacher of the Zen Centers in Dresden, Bad Bramstedt and in Hamburg. Together with his wife, Arne created Lotus Consult, a coaching and consulting business that integrates Buddhist insight with psychological frameworks to help small to medium-sized companies. In 2010, Arne also started mindsweets, a small confectioner specializing in organic sweets.You can find out more by visiting the website for the Kwan Um Centers in Dresden, Bad Bramstedt and Hamburg. Click here to find out more about Arne's company mindsweets Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi began practicing Zen in 1971 at the Rochester Zen Center with Philip Kapleau Roshi and later with Toni Packer. In 1997, Karin received jukai from Shishin Wick Roshi, dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, at the Great Mountain Zen Center. She completed her koan training in 2005 with Danan Henry Roshi at the Zen Center of Denver, and served as an assistant teacher until receiving dharma transmission in 2010. Karin also completed her training with Shishin Roshi and received inka from him in January 2019. Today she serves as one of the guiding teachers of the Zen Center of Denver. For over 20 years, Karin worked as a family physician while raising her family. She is also an accomplished artist. Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi began practicing Zen in 1971 at the Rochester Zen Center with Philip Kapleau Roshi and later with Toni Packer. In 1997, Karin received jukai from Shishin Wick Roshi, dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, at the Great Mountain Zen Center. She completed her koan training in 2005 with Danan Henry Roshi at the Zen Center of Denver, and served as an assistant teacher until receiving dharma transmission in 2010. Karin also completed her training with Shishin Roshi and received inka from him in January 2019. Today she serves as one of the guiding teachers of the Zen Center of Denver. For over 20 years, Karin worked as a family physician while raising her family. She is also an accomplished artist. You can find out more by visiting the website for the Zen Center of Denver at https://zencenterofdenver.org/ Her artist website is https://karinkempeart.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Kotatsu John Bailes

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Kotatsu John Bailes began his practicing Zen in 1972 at the age of 19 at the San Francisco Zen Center. He was ordained a Zen Priest by Richard Baker Roshi in 1977, spending time at Tassajara, Green Gulch Farm and the San Francisco Zen Center until 1984 when he moved to the Boston area to study and work. In 2004, John returned to community dharma practice and received dharma transmission from Zoketsu Norman Fischer. John is the founding teacher of One Heart Zen in Somerville, MA and serves as the Buddhist chaplain at Wellesley College and the guiding teacher of Monmouth Zen Circle in Monmouth, NJ.You can find out more by visiting the website for One Heart Zen at http://oneheartzen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maherhttps://www.theseekerstable.com/Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Rev. Shinshu Roberts

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

We live in a Buddha-field that has delusion, greed, and hate and we should strive to overcome this by entering the Bodhisattva path. We do this to enact more and more helpful energy to heal this Buddha-field.

Rev. Kinrei Bassis

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Rev. Kinrei Bassis began his Buddhist training in an effort to relieve a sense of meaninglessness to life. He felt bound circumstances, emotions, and desires, but when introduced to the Four Noble Truths he saw a way out of suffering and a path to peace and happiness. He began training with Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett and ordained as a monk under her direction in 1979, training at Shasta Abbey. He received Dharma Transmission in 1982 and was named Master by Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett in 1987. He has been the Prior of the Berkeley Buddhist Priory since 1997.You can find out more by visiting the website for the Berkeley Buddhist Priory at https://berkeleybuddhistpriory.org/Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://www.theseekerstable.comSit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zenhttps://kwanumzenonline.org

Hye Tong Sunim

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Hye Tong Sunim, JDPS, began practicing Zen Buddhism at Hwa Gye Sa temple in Seoul, South Korea in 1995. He ordained as a novice monk in the Jogye Order in 1996 at Haeinsa Temple. He received bhikkhu precepts (full ordination) in 2000 from the Kwan Um School of Zen and in 2005 from the Jogye Order. He has worked and practiced at Hwa Gye Sa, Seung Sahn International Zen Center Musangsa, Providence Zen Center in US and several other Korean Zen monasteries. Hye Tong Sunim received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Dae Bong in 2012. He is currently Seon Won Jang Sunim (co-guiding teacher) and vice-abbot of Musangsa.You can find out more by visiting the website for Musangsa Temple athttps://www.musangsa.orgSit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.comSit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Jeong Ji (Anita Feng)

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Jeong Ji, Anita Feng, began practicing Zen in 1976 and later moved into the Providence Zen Center to study with Zen Seung Sahn. She received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Ji Bong, Robert Moore, in 2008, and was given transmission by him in 2015. Today Zen Master Jeong Ji is the guiding teacher of the Blue Heron Zen Community in Seattle, WA. She is also an accomplished ceramicist and author. You can find out more by visitinghttps://blueheronzen.org/ And Anita Feng’s artist page athttp://www.anitafeng.com/wp/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zenhttps://kwanumzenonline.org

Haju Sunim

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Haju Sunim began studying with her teacher, Samu Sunim, in 1976 in Toronto. In 1982, she moved into the Ann Arbor Buddhist Temple and was ordained as a priest in 1989. Haju Sunim was given dharma transmission by Samu Sunim in 1999. In the 1990s, interested in involving entire families in an integrated Buddhist life, she helped launch the temple’s Peace Camp, an annual six-day retreat, which draws people from around the world. She continues to teach at the Ann Arbor Buddhist Temple, a residential community that has just expanded its facilities to accommodate students of the Way who are seeking a more immersive practice life. You can find out more by visiting https://www.zenbuddhisttemple.org If you would like to learn more about the residential possibilities in the newly expanded temple you can email AnnArborZenTemple@gmail.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://www.theseekerstable.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Sallie Tisdale

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Sallie Jiko Tisdale began practicing Zen in 1983 and received Lay Dharma transmission in 1997 from her teacher, Kyogen Carlson. She currently serves as Godo, or head of teaching, for Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon. She has written nine books, including Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom and most recently Advice for Future Corpses: a Practical Perspective on Death and Dying, which was a NY Times Book Critic's top 10 book of the year. Her essays have appeared in many magazines and journals, including Harper’s, The New Yorker, and Tricycle. Jiko also works part-time as a registered nurse in palliative care and is an end-of-life nursing educator. You can find out more by visiting the website for the Dharma Rain Zen Center at: https://dharma-rain.org/ And at: http://sallietisdale.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Andrzej Stec, JDPSN

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Andrzej Stec, Ji Do Poep Sa Nim, met Zen Master Seung Sahn at a dharma talk at Gdansk Polytechnic University in 1981 where Andrzej was working on his Masters of Architecture. He began formal practice in 1983, became a monk, and trained in Korea for 13 years. He received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1998 and has been teaching in Europe, Asia and the United States ever since. Andrzej has led several 90-day retreats and served as abbot of the Kwan Um School of Poland and several Zen centers worldwide. He was the second guiding teacher at Su Bong Zen Monastery in Hong Kong from 2009 to 2016. Today, Andrzej lives in Korea and is the guiding teacher of the Kwan Um Seoul Zen Group and the Kwan Um Daejeon Zen Group. You can find out more by visiting the Kwan Um Seoul Zen Group at http://zenseoul.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Meido Moore, Roshi

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Meido Moore Roshi is the abbot of Korinji monastery near Madison, Wisconsin and guiding teacher of the Korinji Rinzai Zen Community. Meido Roshi began Zen training in 1988 and practiced under three Rinzai Zen teachers Tenzan Toyoda Rokoji, Dogen Hosokawa Roshi and So'zan Miller Roshi all of whom are in the lineage of Zen master Omori Sogen Roshi. He received inka, or permission to teach, in 2008 and travels widely teaching and leading retreats. Meido Roshi is the author of two books: The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice and the soon-to-be released Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realization, both published with Shambala. Before his ordination Meido Roshi traveled internationally for many years as a professional martial art teacher. You can find out more by visiting the website for the Korinji Rinzai Zen Community (with branches in the USA and Europe) at: https://www.korinji.org/ Meido Roshi also moderates a very active Facebook group for Rinzai Zen. https://www.facebook.com/groups/183043823782 He has published two books: Hidden Zen: Practices for Sudden Awakening and Embodied Realization https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611808469 The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611805178 Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp, Sensei

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Catherine Anraku Hondorp Sensei is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest and an authorized Zen teacher in the White Plum lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Anraku Sensei is co-founder, with her spouse Ryūmon Hilda Baldoquín Sensei, of Two Streams Zen, a dedicated practice space for People of Color, in Westhampton, Massachusetts, United States. Anraku Sensei’s passion for social justice arose from growing up White in a northeastern U.S. urban Black community. Born to a Dutch Reformed Church minister father, and an Early Childhood educator mother in a multiracial family during the times of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, racial inequities were painfully apparent. Anraku Sensei began her Zen studies with John Daido Loori Roshi at Zen Mountain Monastery in 1987. In 1996 she began studying with Enkyo O’Hara Roshi. Anraku Sensei received dharma transmission from Enkyo Roshi in 2009. Anraku Sensei is co-founder, with her spouse Ryūmon Hilda Baldoquín Sensei, of Two Streams Zen, a dedicated practice space for People of Color, in Westhampton, Massachusetts, United States. You can find out more by visiting the website for Two Streams Zen. https://twostreamszen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Haemin Sunim

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Haemin Sunim was born in South Korea, but after high school he moved to the U.S. to study film at U.C. Berkeley. Dissatisfied with the reality of film making he switched to religious studies and went on to complete a masters at Harvard, a doctorate at Princeton, and taught Asian religions at Hampshire College in Massachusetts for 7 years. At 25, Haemin decided to become a monk and did his formal monastic training from Haein monastery in South Korea. His first book Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down has been translated into over 35 different languages and sold over four million copies. His second book, Love for Imperfect Things was the number one bestseller of the year in South Korea in 2016 and became available in multiple languages in 2019. Haemin Sunim is the founding teacher of the School of Broken Hearts in Seoul, South Korea. And you can also follow him on Twitter with a million other people who seek out his daily reflections. You can find out more by visiting his website at https://www.haeminsunim.com/ He is very active on Twitter and offers a lot of teaching there. https://twitter.com/haeminsunim His books are available on his website or by following these links: Love for Imperfect Things https://amzn.to/3eGBYEt The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down https://amzn.to/30ygHb2

Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Shinge Sherry Chayat, Roshi began formal Zen practice at the Zen Studies Society in 1967. She served as co-director of the first residential community at Dai Bosatsu Zendo from 1974 until 1976, when she moved to Syracuse and began leading the Zen Center there. She received lay ordination from Maurine Stuart Roshi in 1985, and full ordination from Eido Shimano Roshi in 1991. She was installed as abbot of the Zen Center of Syracuse in 1996; received Dharma Transmission from Eido Roshi in 1998; and in 2008 was authorized as a roshi, or Zen Master, and given the name Shinge, meaning “heart-mind flowering.” In addition to her work as a Zen teacher, the Shinge Roshi is an award-winning writer and editor of several books and her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications You can find out more by visiting: Zen Studies Society https://zenstudies.org Zen Center of Syracuse https://zencenterofsyracuse.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://www.theseekerstable.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Hae Kwang

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Hae Kwang, Stanley Lombardo, first started to practice with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1978, receiving inka from him in 1992 and transmission in 1998. An emeritus classics professor at the University of Kansas he is known for his translations of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy, and has also co-authored a translation of the Tao Te Ching. He is the editor and/or co-editor of three of Zen Master Seung Sahn's books, Bone of Space, Only Don't Know, and the Ten Gates; and he has co-edited A Zen Sourcebook, an anthology of many of the traditional documents from China, Korea, and Japan that shaped the Zen tradition. He is a founding member of the Kansas Zen Center in Lawrence, Kansas, where he teaches along with his wife Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman). You can find out more by visiting the website for the Kansas Zen Center at https://kansaszencenter.org/ You can find many of his translations here: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AStanley+Lombardo&s=relevancerank&text=Stanley+Lombardo&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Jok Um

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Jok Um (Ken Kessel) began studying with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1975, received inka, or permission to teach, in 1996, and transmission in 2017. Zen Master Jok Um is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a psychotherapist specializing in infant and early childhood mental health. He is guiding teacher for the New Haven Zen Center, Hwa Um Sa-Orlando Zen Center, Gateless Gate Zen Center (Gainesville) and Cypress Tree Zen Group (Tallahassee), Ten Directions Zen Community in Chicago and the Hermitage of Beneficence in McHenry, IL. He also teaches at the Chogye International Zen Center of New York. http://www.newhavenzen.org/ https://orlandozen.com/ http://gatelessgate.org/ http://webdharma.com/ctzg/ https://tendirectionszen.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Religious-Center/Ja-Gak-Am-Hermitage-of-Beneficence-108781357157949/ http://www.chogyezencenter.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Dae Kwan

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Dae Kwan studied Buddhism at the Kwok Kwong Buddhist College in Hong Kong in the 1970’s and ordained as a nun at Ajahn Chaa's International Forest Monastery in Thailand in 1981. She practiced in Chiangmai for a decade including two years of intensive solo retreat in Tu Boo Cave. As a Theravada nun she visited for the first time Korea in 1992 and met Zen Master Seung Sahn during a three-month winter kyol che. Following the retreat she asked her teacher for permission to help establish a Zen Center in Hong Kong, which became Su Bong Zen Monastery. In 1995, she received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Seung Sahn and in April 2001, she received Dharma transmission from him. Today Zen Master Dae Kwan serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Su Bong Zen Monastery in Hong Kong. She has translated several of Zen Master Seung Sahn's books into Chinese including "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha," "Only Don't Know," and "The Whole World is a Single Flower." You can find out more by visiting the website for Su Bong Monastery https://www.subong.org.hk/en Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Bon Soeng

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Bon Soeng, Jeff Kitzes, began practicing Zen in 1975 and became a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1979. He received inka, or permission to teach in 1992 and was given dharma transmission by Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2001. Zen Master Bon Soeng is also a licensed psychotherapist in private practice integrating Zen, Buddhism, and Western Psychotherapy. He has served as the guiding teacher of Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley, California since 1992. To find out more visit Empty Gate Zen Center. http://emptygatezen.com/ They also curate a very active YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/emptygatezen Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Reirin Alheidis Gumbel

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Reirin Alheidis Gumbel was born in Germany and moved to the United States in 1981. She began practicing Zen in 1990 and received lay ordination from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1993. Reirin became a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center in 2003 and lived at Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara for nearly 12 years. She ordained as a Soto Zen Priest in 2007 and in May of 2019 Reirin received shiho (Dharma transmission) from Furyu Nancy Schroeder at Green Dragon Temple of San Francisco Zen Center. Currently, Reirin is the resident priest of the Milwaukee Zen Center. You can find out more by visiting the website for the Milwaukee Zen Center: http://mkzen.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Abby Mushin Terris

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Abby Mushin Terris first began studying Zen in 1976 after practicing Transcendental Meditation for several years. She met Robert Aitken Roshi in 1976 when he visited the Seattle Zen group she sat with. Recognizing him from a significant dream she had had, she attended a period of residential training at his Maui Zendo the following winter and sat several more retreats with Aitken Roshi before settling in with practice Genki Roshi, who had moved to Seattle. Mushin began studying with Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi in 1987. Mushin was named a Dharma Holder by Chozen Bays, Roshi in 2004 and received Sangha Transmission from her in the White Plum lineage of Soto Zen in 2013, becoming her first lay successor. She is on the teacher panel at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie Oregon and co-leads regular retreats there. She also is a visiting teacher at Zen West in Eugene Oregon. Mushin founded the Corvallis Zen Circle in 1992 and remains the sangha’s guiding teacher. They have recently completed building the Sangha Jewel Zen Center, the first dedicated center for study and practice of the Way in Corvallis, Oregon. You can find out more by visiting: https://corvalliszencircle.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 04:00:00 +0000

Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, first encountered Buddhism in 1963. She has been practicing the Lotus Sutra ever since. In 2002, she began training to become a priest. She became head priest and guiding teacher of the Nichiren Buddhist Sangha of Texas in Houston, also known as Myoken-ji Temple in 2007. She has active prison and hospice ministries. Myokei Shonin, is currently bishop of the Nichiren Shu Order of North America.

Zen Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton)

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Bon Haeng, Mark Houghton, became a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn's in 1976 and was an early member of the Cambridge Zen Center where he lived for 14 years and was abbot for 12. He received inka, or permission to teach, in 1990. Zen Master Bon Haeng received transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2000. Today he is retired but continues to serve as the guiding teacher of the Open Meadow Zen Group in Lexington, MA, the co-guiding teacher the Providence Zen Center. If you are considering either short or long-term residence in a Zen community please visit: https://providencezen.org/ You can find ZM Bon Haeng's practice and retreat schedule by visiting: http://www.openmeadowzen.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher: https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Kim Hoben Hansen

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Kim Hoben Hansen began formal Zen practice in 1995 and the following year he became a student of Chozen Bays, Roshi and Hogen Bays, Roshi. In 2009 Hoben completed Sanghakai training, a 3-year program for lay Zen students designed to cultivate different aspects of Sangha service. He was made a Dharma Heir by Chozen Bays, Roshi and Hogen Bays, Roshi in 2015. Hoben is the founding teacher of the North Shore Zendo in Vancouver, Canada. And in addition to leading traditional retreats, Hoben has taught Zen Buddhism in specialized communities like lawyers and youth. You can find out more by visiting: http://www.northshorezen.org/welcome/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Mitra Bishop, Roshi

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Mitra Bishop Roshi began practicing Zen in 1974 while living in Turkey and soon after began training at the Rochester Zen Center with Roshi Philip Kapleau. In 1986, Mitra-roshi was ordained by Roshi Kapleau and after completing her formal training in 1992, she moved to Sogen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple, in Okayama, Japan, to train under the guidance of the Ven. Harada Shodo-roshi. Mitra-roshi returned to the United States in 1996 was formally sanctioned to teach by Roshi Kapleau as one of his dharma heirs. In that same year, she was asked to guide the Hidden Valley Zen Center in San Marcos, California, and as well, established Mountain Gate Sanmonji, a monastic practice center in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Mitra-roshi is an accomplished calligrapher and her writings have appeared in the books Mu, Zen Teaching, Zen Practice, Blossoms of the Dharma, and in Record of the Hidden Lamp, as well as numerous websites and magazines. A number of videos of her teisho [Zen talks] are available on YouTube. You can find out more by visiting the website for Mountain Gate Sanmonji at https://www.sanmonjizen.org/ She also works with the Regaining Balance Program which offers retreats for women veterans with PTSD. You can learn more by visiting https://www.regainingbalance.org/ And Hidden Valley Zen Center at https://www.hvzc.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Ilan Luttenberg

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Ilan Luttenberg was first introduced to Buddhism while studying philosophy in university. And he began practicing the path in 1996 with a variety of teachers from both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions. He was a founding member of "Akoda" and "Middle Way", organizations that bring tools and insights from the Buddhist practice into social action promoting a culture of non-violence, compassion, and peace. He co-translated the books End of Time by Krishnamurti, What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula and Samasati-An Exposition of Right Mindfulness by Ven P.A. Payutto into Hebrew. Ilan is a co-founder of the "Buddhism in Israel" website and of the program "One Dharma - Many Paths" As a teacher, his approach combines the practice of meditation with practical applications for daily training and a way of life that brings release and liberation from suffering. If you read Hebrew you can find out more by visiting the website for Buddhism in Israel at https://www.buddhism-israel.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Myong Hae Sunim, JDPSN

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Myong Hae Sunim, JDPS, was originally planning on becoming Catholic nun when a friend invited her to hear a visiting Chinese Zen Master, Su Bong Sunim. Lithuania had recently become independent from Communism and was opening up to the world. She had never seen a Chinese person before and initially went just to meet him. But she was so moved by his message she immediately signed up to sit a three-day retreat. Myong Hae Sunim quickly realized that the Buddhist path fit her better than the Catholic one and she began sitting retreats in Poland before finally moving to Hwa Gye Sat Temple in South Korea in 1996 to begin her monastic training. The following year, after ordaining as a nun, she moved to Hong Kong to serve at Su Bong Zen Monastery, where she has been ever since and now serves as the second guiding teacher. You can find out more by visiting the website for Su Bong Monastery in Hong Kong at https://subong.org.hk/en Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Bon Yeon

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Bon Yeon, Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz, began to get interested in Buddhism in college, which led to her studying abroad in Nepal during her senior year. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles to get a Masters in Tibetan Studies but also began practicing vipassana with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. After several shorter retreats, she sat her first 90 retreat at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre MA when she was 23 and she enjoyed it so much she stayed for a second three-month sit. Zen Master Bon Yeon first heard Zen Master Seung Sahn when he came to teach at Barre, instantly connected with him as her teacher, and moved to the Providence Zen Center. Not long after she sat another 90-day retreat followed by a one-hundred day solo retreat in Maine. She moved into the Cambridge Zen Center at age 25, where she lived for the next 14 years. Zen Master Bon Yeon received Inka, or permission to teach, at 31 and began traveling and teaching in the US, Europe, and South Africa. She received transmission in April of 2000 at the age of 39 and published The Wisdom of Solitude, an account of her 100-day solo retreat, the following year. Zen Master Bon Yeon lives in the Greater Boston area with her husband and two children and continues as the Guiding Teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center. Check out her book One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat https://amzn.to/2HVISZj You can find her retreat and interview schedule by visiting The Cambridge Zen Center website https://cambridgezen.org/ And you can find some of her talks and videos on her personal website https://www.jane-dobisz.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Yonathan Dominitz

Thu, 30 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Yonathan Dominitz began practicing Insight Meditation in 1997 and has been teaching the dharma since 2002 mainly with Tovana, the largest Buddhist community in Israel. In 2015, inspired by more than 10 years of service as a hospice volunteer, Yonathan co-founded Meditation 1:1 to help cancer patients find and foster inner strength during periods of crisis and uncertainty. He is also the founder of Mindscapes, where he trains and teaches creative thinking to companies worldwide. If you understand Hebrew you can listen to his dharma talks here: https://www.tovana.org.il/en/user/153 If you would like to help support the work of Meditation 1:1, you can find their information here (If you're using Chrome, right click and use the translate page option if you don't speak Hebrew) https://www.yaelsimcha.org.il/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Acharya Fleet Maull

Thu, 23 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Acharya Fleet Maull, Ph.D came of age in the late sixties and discovered Buddhism as part of the counter-cultural search for authenticity. After college he moved to Peru where he encountered the writings of his first teacher, Trungpa Rimpoche, and the opportunities of living outside the system by smuggling drugs. He moved to Colorado to study with Trungpa becoming one of his primary attendants but continued to live a dual life as a dharma practitioner and drug user and smuggler. This karma caught up to him in 1985 and he faced the choice of going on the run or turning himself in. He turned to Trungpa for advice and he recommended that Fleet face what he had created, which began the pain and chaos of long term incarceration. Again faced with the choice of hunkering down and just trying to get through the time or finding a way to help others with their suffering, Fleet began to develop his practice along the ethical teachings of the precepts. Four years into his fourteen-year sentence, Fleet founded the Prison Mindfulness Institute, which has become a leading provider of mindfulness programming for both prisoners and criminal justice professionals. Today Fleet is a senior lineage teacher in the Shambhala community and is a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He is a senior priest in the Zen Peacemaker community assisting with Auschwitz Bearing Witness retreats and co-founded the Rwanda Bearing Witness retreats. To find out more about Fleet Maull's work visit his websites: https://windhorseseminars.fleetmaull.com/ https://fleetmaull.com/ He also has a website for his new book Radical Responsibility: https://www.radicalresponsibilitybook.com And you can buy Fleet Maull's books at Radical Responsibility https://amzn.to/2LMPw8o Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull https://amzn.to/30oPFCe Fleet Maull is involved with a number of other organizations, many of which we talked about in the podcast. You can find information about there here: Prison Work: www.prisonmindfulness.org Work with Criminal Justice Professionals: www.mindfulpublicsafety.com Training Mindfulness Teachers in Trauma-Informed Approaches: www.engagedmindfulness.org Mindful Justice Advocacy: www.mindfuljustice.org Bearing Witness work: www.zenpeacemakers.org Prison Hospice work: www.npha.org

Paul Park, JDPSN

Thu, 16 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Paul Park, JDPSN first met Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1972 in Los Angeles when he was 14. He began practicing Zen in earnest in 1980 after he got out of the military. He received inka, or permission to teach, from ZM Seung Sahn in 1998. He is the guiding teacher of Dharma Zen Center, a residential Zen Center, in Los Angeles. You can find his practice and retreat schedule by visiting www.DharmaZen.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Lama Willa Miller

Wed, 08 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Lama Willa Miller is the founder and spiritual director of Natural Dharma Fellowship in Boston, MA, and its retreat center Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. She was authorized as a dharma teacher and lineage holder in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism after 12 years of monastic training and two consecutive three-year retreats. In 2013, she received a doctorate from Harvard University in Religion, and was a Visiting Lecturer in Buddhist Ministry at Harvard Divinity School from 2013 to 2017. Her academic interests include Tantra and the Body, Buddhism and Ecology, and Buddhist Contemplative Care. Her dharma teachings investigate the body as a door to awakening, natural meditation (mahamudra), and heart-cultivation (lojong). She is the editor, author, and translator, respectively, of three books: The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work, Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You, and Essence of Ambrosia, a 17th-century collection of meditations by Tibetan scholar Taranatha. Her articles and translations have appeared in Lion’s Roar, Buddhadharma, the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, the Tibet Journal, and other periodicals. You can find out more about Lama Willa Miller's teaching by visiting: https://www.naturaldharma.org/ and http://www.wonderwellrefuge.org/ Please explore her books: The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You Essence of Ambrosia A Guide to Buddhist Contemplations Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen

Einav Rosenblit

Wed, 01 May 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Einav Rosenblit is a dharma teacher and a lecturer of Dance Research and Philosophy of Arts. She earned her Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University with a dissertation called The Original Face of the Body, which presented a Zen reading of contemporary dance. Einav's first book: Too Human Body: Zen Buddhism in the Art of Contemporary Dance was published in 2014. Her second book: Hungry Ghost: Israeli Dance and National Identity was published in September 2018. If you would like to communicate with Einav you can reach her through Facebook https://www.facebook.com/einav.rosenblit.3 Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Ofosu Jones-Quartey (Born I)

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Ofosu Jones-Quartey aka Born I has been practicing meditation since 1999. In 2002, he met his teacher, Bhante Buddharakkhita, who taught him Vipassana meditation in the Burmese tradition. Ofosu has taught with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. since 2004 and has also served as a guest teacher with the Insight Meditation Society. He is currently a guest teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Ofosu has been working with Minds, Incorporated since 2014 to bring mindfulness practice to schools. Ofosu is also an accomplished hip hop and electronic music artist, performing under the stage name Born I and often weaves his Buddhist philosophy into his music. He currently lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and their four children. You can listen to some of Ofosu's dharma talks on dharmaseed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/480/ You can find out about his retreat schedule with IMCW here: https://imcw.org/Calendar/Event-Calendar/PageId/EventListView/categoryId/28/teacherId/22 And at Spirit Rock here: https://calendar.spiritrock.org/event-speaker/ofosu-jones-quartey/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Kate Lila Wheeler

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Kate Lila Wheeler was born in Oklahoma but was raised in four South American countries. She graduated from Rice and Stanford and was, for a time, a lecturer in creative writing at Tufts University. She has written 2 books of her own fiction and edited 3 books for Wisdom Publications—2 collections of talks by her late teacher, Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma; and a collection of Buddhist short fiction. Kate has received prizes, fellowships, and grants for her writing from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute, NEA and others. In April 2019 she was a Buddhist writer in residence at Smith College in Northampton, MA. Kate sat her first meditation retreat in 1977 and was empowered to teach by Spirit Rock and IMS in 2006; more recently her Tibetan lama, Dza Kilung Rinpoche, invited her to offer Vajrayana attitudes in her teaching, and instruct students in his system of seven Relaxed Mind meditations. Presently she serves as one of three coordinators of the 2017-2020 Teacher Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA is a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock. You can find out more by visiting her website: http://katewheeler.com/ Or https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/109 which hosts the audio of many of her talks. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Yuval Ido Tal

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Yuval Ido Tal is a poet, meditation teacher, and translator of modern and ancient Buddhist writings. He is the academic director of Psycho-Dharma (The Israeli School for the Buddhist Study of the Mind) and works with therapists studying at the Mindfulness Clinic at the Be’er Sheva Mental Health Center. He has been teaching Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, primarily in the Zen tradition, for 20 years and leads retreat 50 to 60 days of the year. He is the author of 4 books, including Buddhism: a Short Introduction, and has translated 9 more. His most recent work is a translation of and commentary on 130 Tang period poems called My Heart Startled by the Moon, co-authored with Yoav Rappoport. If you speak Hebrew, please visit the Psycho-Dharma website at: https://www.pdharma.co.il And if you don’t feel free to contact Yuval on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/yuvtal Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Myong An Sunim, JDPS

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Myong An Sunim was born to a Chinese family in Malaysia in 1959. He was educated in the United Kingdom, went on to earn an MBA and worked in finance. In 1992, he after hearing a dharma talk by Zen Master Seung Sahn in Hong Kong, he began to practice Zen. He served as one of the Su Bong Zen Monastery’s first directors' group and later become a dharma teacher. After completing four 90-day retreats in Korea he ordained in February of 1997, becoming the last monk to be ordained by Zen Master Seung Sahn. He continued to train in Korea, sitting several additional 90-day retreats. In 2013, he returned to Malaysia and started Zen Space Penang at the Haeng Won Zen Centre in Penang, Malaysia. You can find out more by visiting the Facebook Page for Zen Space Penang at: https://www.facebook.com/haengwonzen Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org Listeners are eligible for a free month of training by using the promo code "sitbreathebow"

Phil Jones

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Phil Jones has practiced meditation since 1987. His early formation was grounded in the Zen tradition, but in 1992 he began practicing in the Insight tradition and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1996. He graduated from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Community Dharma Leader program in 2000. For a number of years he studied with Matthew Flickstein and more recently with Shaila Catherine. He has served on the board of directors of Mid America Dharma, the regional retreat organization, since the mid-'90's. Phil is also the founder of the Silent Mind-Open Heart sangha in Columbia, Missouri. You can find many of his essays and talks at: http://silentmindopenheart.org/ And https://showmedharma.org/ You can reach Phil by email at: phil@silentmindopenheart.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Beth Kanji Goldring

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Beth Kanji Goldring began practicing Japanese Zen in 1979 and became a student of Maurine Stuart Roshi in 1982. Following her lay ordination in 1986, Beth moved to Palestine working as a human rights advocate for the next seven years. After returning to the U.S., she spent a year at Harvard/Radcliffe's Bunting Institute before taking full ordination in 1995. Beth began working with the International Network of Engaged Buddhists in Thailand and then moved to Cambodia in 1996, inspired by Maha Ghosananda. In the year 2000, she founded Brahmavihara Cambodia, a Buddhist chaplaincy organization, to provide emotional and spiritual support for destitute AIDS patients and their families, which she ran until the end of 2016. In addition to Zen, Beth has also studied Tibetan Tonglen with Alan Wallace and, beginning in 2003, Vipassana with Gil Fronsdal. She received full authorization as a teacher from Gil in 2017. You can her dharma talks at https://www.audiodharma.org/ and you’re welcome to contact her by emailing vipassanaphnompenh@gmail.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Dae Bong Sunim

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Dae Bong was born in 1950 in Philadelphia, PA. He studied psychology at university and later worked as a psychiatric counselor in a hospital and as a welder in a shipyard. But after hearing Zen Master Seung Sahn speak in 1977 he quit to pursue the dharma living and practicing with his teacher full time at different Zen centers around the world. Zen Master Dae Bong ordained as a monk in 1984 and received inka, or permission to teach, in 1992. He was given transmission to become a Zen master in 1999 and presently serves as Abbot and Jo Shil, resident Zen Master, of Musangsa International Zen Center in Korea. He is also the regional Zen master in Asia for the Kwan Um School of Zen. You can find out more by visiting the website for Musangsa temple at http://www.musangsa.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Stephen Fulder

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Stephen Fulder was born in London in 1946. He studied at University of Oxford and the National Institute of Medical Research, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Stephen has published 14 books in the field of complementary and herbal medicine. He began to practice in 1976 as a student of S.N. Goenka and Mother Sayama. In 1981, he moved to Israel and founded Tovana, the Israel Insight Society, in 1995, where he serves as senior teacher. Stephen has been involved in the Middle East peace process as a founder of People to People and later of the MiddleWay organization. His latest book, ‘What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life’ was published in January 2019. You can find out more about his teaching by visiting his website https://www.stephenfulder.com/ If you can read Hebrew and would like to learn more about insight meditation opportunities in Israel visit https://tovana.org.il And please consider picking up a copy of his new book ‘What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life.’ https://amzn.to/2DV4uSA Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Kim Allen

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Kim Allen grew up in California where nature served as an early path for her spiritual life. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in material physics and began working as a technology analyst. But changes in her health refocused her journey, and in 2003 she began to meditate seriously, guided by her teacher Gil Fronsdal. She soon began sitting many long retreats, and in 2008 Kim was invited to begin teaching. Today she leads groups in Los Gatos and Santa Cruz and is a frequent guest teacher in other area Insight centers. Visit her website to read essays, listen to dharma talks, see her teaching schedule, and sign-up for online courses. www.uncontrived.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Bon Hae

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Bon Hae, Judy Roitman, began practicing with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1976 while teaching at Wellesley College. In 1978, she joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, married her husband Stan Lombardo (now Zen Master Hae Kwang) and helped found what became the Kansas Zen Center. Zen Master Bon Hae received inka, or permission to teach, in 1998 and transmission in 2013. You can find some of her articles in Buddhadharma, much of her poetry online, and most of her mathematics papers behind institutional paywalls. Zen Master Bon Hae is currently the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center. You can find out more about Zen Master Bon Hae's teaching and retreat schedule by visiting the Kansas Zen Center’s website https://kansaszencenter.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Sister Clare Carter

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Sister Clare Carter was raised Catholic in West Roxbury MA. In 1977 she encountered the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order at a peace vigil in front of Faneuil Hall in Boston and 4 years later ordained as nun assuming her order’s vows of healing the world of materialism and violence through the spiritual practices of chanting, prayer, constructing peace pagodas, and pilgrimage. She has participated in multiple pilgrimages for peace and justice, both locally and internationally, in an effort to witness to the suffering and inspiring transformation. Sister Clare Carter was the co-founder of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage, a year-long spiritual journey tracing the history and impact of slavery starting in Massachusetts walking down the eastern seaboard to New Orleans, through the Caribbean, to the slave dungeons of West Africa, culminating ultimately in South Africa. You can find out more about her practice by visiting https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org If you would like to get involved with Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit: facing 400 years of Colonization since the Mayflower Landed please email: NewEnglandPeacePagoda@gmail.com Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei, began his Zen studies in 1987 at Zen Mountain Monastery with John Daido Loori Roshi. In 2001 he moved to Toledo and co-founded the Toledo Zen Meditation Group with his wife Rev. Karen Do’on Weik Osho and later continued his Zen study with Bonnie Myotai Trace Sensei, Daido Roshi’s first dharma heir and with Fr. Kevin Hunt Sensei. In 2009 he became a student of James Ford Roshi from whom he received transmission in 2014. Today Jay serves as abbot and guiding teacher of the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo. He is a professor of Classical and Jazz Guitar at the University of Toledo and holds a 5th degree back belt in Aikido and serves as the Guiding Sensei at Shobu Aikido of Ohio. You can find out more about Rinsen's teaching by visiting https://www.buddhisttempleoftoledo.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzen.org/online

Shaila Catherine

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Shaila Catherine began meditating in 1980 and quickly fell in love with the practice of silent contemplation accumulating over nine years of silent retreat experience. The wisdom gained through direct encounter with the dhamma along with the guidance of teachers from India, Thailand, Nepal, and the West allowed Shaila the opportunity to deeply explore meditation, including the absorption states of jhana and insight practices. She has authored two books, Focused and Fearless and Wisdom Wide and Deep, which introduce and guide practitioners to develop powerful concentration techniques supporting liberating insight. She is the founder and principle teacher at Insight Meditation South Bay in California and the creator of Bodhi Courses, an online Buddhist classroom. If you would like to sit a retreat with Shaila you can find her schedule at https://www.imsb.org Her online course can be found at https://bodhicourses.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Gregory Kramer

Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Gregory Kramer has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1980 and in 1995 began offering instruction in Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation designed to highlight the relational dimensions of the dharma. Gregory’s teaching emphasizes an integrated path of development, where individual and interpersonal meditation are joined with contemplation, ethical inquiry, and a commitment to kindness. He is the author of Insight Dialogue: The interpersonal path to freedom. Gregory is the founding teacher of the Metta Foundation and leads retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. Please consider picking up a copy of his book, Insight Dialogue: The interpersonal path to freedom. You can find his retreat schedule at: https://metta.org/ https://gregorykramer.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Josh Bartok, Roshi

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Josh Bartok, Roshi, began practicing Zen practice with John Daido Loori, at Zen Mountain Monastery in the early 1990s while a student at nearby Vassar College, and later lived there for 18 months. In 2000, he began practicing with James Ishmael Ford, Roshi. He was ordained by James Ford in 2008 and received permission to teach from him in 2012. Presently Josh serves as the guiding teacher and spiritual director of the Greater Boston Zen Center. For many years he worked as a Senior Editor at Wisdom Publications, a leading publisher of classic and contemporary Buddhist books from all of the major Buddhist lineages. During his tenure he edited nearly 250 books having to do with meditation, mindfulness, and Buddhist traditions. Josh is the co-author of Saying Yes to Life (Even the Hard Parts) and the author of Daily Doses of Wisdom. His writings have appeared in Buddhadharma, Lion's Roar, and The Handbook of Zen, Mindfulness, and Behavioral Health. He remains with Wisdom on a part-time basis as the Executive Editor and has a private practice in contemplative and Buddhist pastoral therapy in Cambridge, MA. You can find out more by visiting https://bostonzen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Nancy Brown Hedgpeth, JDPSN

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Nancy Brown Hedgpeth has been a Zen student and part of the Kwan Um School of Zen since 1979. She has practiced at the Cambridge Zen Center, the Providence Zen Center, the New Haven Zen Center as well as in South Korean temples. She is a retired nurse. She helped run a farm in southern Rhode Island her husband. Nancy received inka, or permission to teach, from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1994. She currently lives at Providence Zen Center where she serves as co-guiding teacher. You can find out more about her teaching and retreat schedule by visiting http://providencezen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Robert Kando Cornell

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Robert Kando Cornell was on track to become a college professor in Theoretical Physics and the Philosophy of Science when he dropped out of graduate school to become a Zen monk. He lived as a monastic for 10 years. After turned in his robes he journeyed through a variety of vocations before going back to school to become a psychotherapist and spiritual director exploring the boundary lands between Buddhist, Christianity, and psychology. He is the author of “50 Ways of Letting Go.” And for many years he led interfaith meditation and practice groups at his church To find out more about his teaching visit his website at http://www.spirittherapist.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Joshin Byrnes, Sensei

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Joshin Byrnes, Sensei has walked a braided path in his spiritual journey studying philosophy and theology, seeking inspiration in Vedic yoga and the interspiritual practices of the New Monastic movement, and even in his youth, taking vows as a Dominican brother. He is a student of Upaya’s founder and guiding teacher, Roshi Joan Halifax, and is a lineage holder in the Maezumi Roshi and Bernie Glassman Roshi family of Soto Zen and the Zen Peacemaker Order. He has been a dharma teacher at Upaya Zen Center as well as its President and Vice Abbot. Joshin continues to direct Upaya’s Chaplaincy Training program and lead practice periods at Upaya as well as social justice initiatives and Upaya’s Street Ministry. Joshin recently started Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Vermont. His understanding of the dharma holds that personal and social liberation co-arise as a result of an integrated life. You can find out more about his teaching and retreat schedule by visiting www.breadloafmountainzen.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Shoda Shonin

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Rev. Shoda Douglas Kanai, Shonin, was raised Buddhist in America by his Japanese parents. His father Rev. Shokai Kanai founded the Nichiren Buddhist Kannon Temple of Nevada, but initially his son was not interested in following in the family tradition and went on to earn an MBA and worked in the back offices of a casino. But as his father neared retirement, Kanai began to reevaluated his path and decided to commit himself to the faith. He moved to Japan and spent 3.5 years studying and practicing at a remote mountain-side temple in northern Osaka Prefecture. During this time, he completed two separate 100-day ascetic training sessions, or Aragyo, which involved chanting the sutras, ritual water purification with cold water, eating two meals and only sleeping 2.5 hours per day. In 2015, he succeed his father as the new head priest of Kannon Temple and has taken on the task of making the Nicherin Shu path more accessible to an American audience. You can find out more about his teaching by visiting his temple’s website at www.kannon-temple-nevada.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Genjo Marinello, Roshi

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Genjo Marinello began his Zen training in 1975 sitting his first sesshin in the summer of 1977. He began the formal process of ordination 1980 in Seattle and trained at Ryutaku-Ji in Japan in 1981-82. In 1999, Genjo Roshi was installed as abbot of Chobo-ji temple in Seattle, where he has served ever since. Genjo was affirmed as the dharma heir of the late Eido Shimano Roshi in May of 2008. His talks and essays have been widely published and his commentary on koan practice has been translated into several languages. Committed to both justice and the teachings of Buddhism, Genjo serves several local and national interfaith organizations and has participated in Bearing Witness retreats at Auschwitz/Birkenau, Rwanda and the Black Hills of South Dakota. You can find out more about his teaching and retreat schedule at choboji.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Kathy Park, JDPSN

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Kathy Park, JDPSN, began practicing Zen in 1999 while living in London. And began studying with the Kwan Um School after visiting the Zen Center in Paris. Over the following 20 years she lived in Zen centers and temples in the United States, Hong Kong, and Korea, where she sat several 90-day retreats. She is currently an administrative director at Mu Sang Sa Temple in Korea and the coordinator of the International Initiative Project for the global Kwan Um School of Zen. Kathy lives in Korea with her husband, Andrzej Stec JDPSN. Together they lead the Kwan Um Seoul Zen Group and Daejeon Zen Group. Kathy is also an art and design consultant focusing on traditional Korean craftwork helping artists become more sustainable. To find out more about the Kwan Um School's online sangha visit their website at: https://kwanumzen.org/online Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Santikaro

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Santikaro moved to Thailand with the Peace Corps in 1980 and ordained as a Theravada monk in 1985. He trained at Suan Mokkh with Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a leading Thai teacher, scholar, and reformer of Theravada Buddhism. He became Ajahn Buddhadasa's primary English translator. He led meditation retreats at Suan Mokkh for many years before returning to the United States in 2001. In 2004 he retired from formal monastic life, but continues to teach in the Buddhist tradition with an emphasis on the early Pali sources. He is the founder of Kevala Retreat, a 70-acre refuge in Norwalk, WI dedicated to Buddhist practice, study, and social responsibility. He is a founding member of Think Sangha, a community of socially engaged Buddhist thinker-activists that has given special attention to the ethical and spiritual impact of consumerism and militarism. His translation of Ajahn Buddhadāsa’s teachings on dependent co-arising, Under the Bodhi Tree, was published in 2017. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Gesshin Claire Greenwood

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Gesshin Claire Greenwood has been practicing Vipassana and Zen for over 12 years. She’s an ordained Zen priest and spent over 5 years in Japan, training in monasteries, studying, and teaching. Gesshin is involved with Blue Cliff Sangha in Long Beach, CA. She is the author of Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Reluctant Wisdom on Ordination, Love, and Zen Training in Japan. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi, is a Guiding Teacher of Boundless Way Zen, a multi-lineage school of Zen Buddhism with practice sanghas in New England, New York, and Copenhagen, Denmark. She began studying Zen in 1981 and joined the Center for Mindfulness, founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester in 1993. There she worked as a member of the mindfulness-based stress reduction teaching staff, the Associate Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic, and a Director of professional training programs until 2012. Melissa was ordained a Soto Zen priest in 2004 and received dharma transmission from James Ford, Roshi, in 2006, and Inka Shomei in 2010. She is widely published and co-editor of The Book of Mu: Essential Writings of Zen's Most Important Koan. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Zen Master Bon Shim

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter) is the Regional Zen Master for the Kwan Um School of Zen in Europe. As a young girl growing up in Cracow, Poland she gravitated to the contemplative atmosphere and the smell of incense of the Catholic Church. In the silence she found a safety she had been longing for, but desired to go beyond what she was being taught, to know that her life had meaning. In 1978, she began practicing with Zen Master Seung Sahn and was given Inka, or permission to teach, in 1992. In 2006 received transmission. Today she serves as the guiding teacher of Zen centers in Poland; Prague, the Czech Republic; and Spain, but frequently teaches in the United States. Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Taigen Dan Leighton

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He first studied Buddhist art and culture in Japan in 1970, and began formal everyday zazen and Soto practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center with Kando Nakajima Roshi. He moved to San Francisco in 1978 and began to work full time for the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979. Taigen was ordained in 1986 by Reb Anderson Roshi. From 1990-1992 he practiced in Kyoto, Japan translating Dogen with Rev. Shohaku Okumura. Taigen has taught widely at the university level, both in the United States and Japan, and is the author of 19 books and numerous articles. Today he lives on the north side of Chicago with his wife and serves as the Guiding Dharma Teacher for Ancient Dragon Zen Gate sangha Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

James Ford, Roshi

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

James Ishmael Ford, Roshi, was ordained a Soto Zen priest in 1969. He received dharma transmission from Jean Kennet, Roshi, in 1971. For many years he studied with John Tarrant and received Inka from hi in 2005. Today he is Senior Guiding Teacher Emeritus with Boundless Way Zen and the senior priest at Blue Cliff Zen, a network of practice groups in California, Washington and Pennsylvania. He has authored five books including Zen Master Who?, If You’re Lucky Your Heart Will Break, and most recently Introduction to Zen Koans: Learning the Language of Dragons.

Florence Caplow

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Zenshin Florence Caplow is a Soto Zen priest and Unitarian Universalist minister. For 25 years she worked as a conservation biologist specializing in endangered plants in the American West. She is widely published and has edited two books, Wildbranch, an anthology of nature writing, and The Hidden Lamp, a collection of 100 teaching stories by Buddhist women over 25 centuries.

Jason Quinn, JDPSN

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Jason Quinn, JDPSN, began practicing Zen in 1997 with the Dharma Sound Zen Center in Seattle. In 1999, feeling ready for a deeper commitment, he moved into the Providence Zen Center to train as a monk where he lived for the following nine years sitting several 90 and 30-day retreats. Jason received inka, or permission to teach, in 2015. He is Vice Abbot at the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley, CA and guides the Kwan Um School of Zen's Online Sangha. Presently he lives in Santa Clara, CA with his wife and children and leads retreats throughout the United States.

Leigh Brasington

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Leigh Brasington began practicing meditation in 1985. And is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994 and began leading retreats on his own in 1997. Today he teaches in Europe and North America and is the author of the book, Right Concentration: A practical guide to the jhanas.

Zen Master Soeng Hyang

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Zen Master Soeng Hyang, Barbara Rhodes, or Bobby, as she is known to many people, was one of Zen Master Seung Sahn's first American students and began studying with him in 1972. She was given inka, or permission to teach, in 1977 and received dharma transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1992. For many years Bobby worked as a hospice nurse and her practice and teaching was profoundly impacted by sitting with her patients as they transitioned from this body. Today Zen Master Soeng Hyang is the guiding Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen, which includes over a hundred centers and temples worldwide.