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Rev. Joshua Paszkiewicz, D.Min., (aka Sunyananda) has been studying and teaching Buddhism full time as a Zen Priest since 2010, and has been practicing formally since his childhood. Sunyananda holds …

Henry Shukman is the Spiritual Director of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center. Henry has been trained by Zen several teachers, particularly the roshi’s Joan Rieck, John Gaynor, Ruben Habito and …

Jundo Cohen is a Zen teacher and founder of the Treeleaf Zendo, a Sōtō Zen community. He was ordained and subsequently received Dharma transmission from Master Gudo Wafu Nishijima.

Renshin is a Soto Zen Priest and retired professional chaplin. She met her teacher Myogen Steve Stücky in January of 1994. She took jukai with Myogen at Dharma Eye Zen Center in October of 1996; was priest ordained by Zenkei Blanche Hartman at San Francisco Zen Center on January 3, 2003; served as shuso (head student) with Myogen at Tassajara in the fall of 2008, and received dharma transmission from him at Tassajara in April of 2013. She began training as a chaplain at the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training in Redwood City in 2007. A one year hospital residency in Clinical Pastoral Education followed. She moved out of Zen Center in 2008 and began work as a hospice chaplain since 2010.

Hosokawa Roshi (Omori Roshi’s main dharma heir), with whom he trained for fifteen years; and So’zan Miller Roshi, with whom he trained for three years. He has completed the koan curriculum of this lineage, and in 2008 received inka shomei.

Seth Dennis a working emergency room chaplain and Zen priest in the Dogen Zenji and Matsuoka Roshi Zen lineage.  He was a student of and received Dharma Transmission from John …

Jyozen Anjyu is a Zen priest in the lineage of Dogen Zenji and Matsuoka Roshi.  He is head priest at  Kanzeonji temple in Los Angeles.   His root teacher is Kaizan Wajo and his dharma transmitting teacher is Ryugen Osho.

Bob has been practicing Zen since 1972 but it was not until 1989 that he found his root teacher, Sojun Mel Weitsman, at Berkeley Zen Center. Bob received lay entrustment in Soto Zen from Sojun in 2010, and founded a Zen group in the Sierra foothills shortly afterwards. Bob is one of the founding members of the Lay Zen Teachers Association. At the invitation of Karen Terzano he has been a visiting teacher at the Ordinary Mind Zen sangha in Finland. In 2019 Bob received denkai from Karen to offer precepts as a teacher within Ordinary Mind Zen. Bob is currently working to develop and Ordinary Mind Zen practice community in Sacramento, California. Bob’s dharma name is Meikyo Onza – “Clear Mirror, Calm Sitting.” 

Kokyo was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo was a teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center for a decade. Kokyo has also been practicing with a Tibetan Dzogchen Teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche Rinpoche since and now lives at his center in Colorado.

Please enjoy this Simplicity Zen Podcast where we talk to Corey Hess about his experience training with Rinzai Zen. This is our first episode the “Zen Lamp” podcast series. Corey leads the Internal Process with Corey Hess Facebook community and specializes in internal process work, including QiGong, Zhan Zhuang, Non-Directed Body Movement, and meditation. He lived in Japan Sogenji which is a traditional Rinzai Zen under renowned Zen master Harada Roshi.