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Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 32: An Interview with Kyosho Valorie Beer

Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 31: An Interview with So-on Jim Hare

So-on Jim Hare serves as Tanto, or head of practice at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 30: An Interview with Jamie Howell

Jamie Howell is a lay Zen Teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Tradition. After many years of practice he received the precepts in a jukai ceremony in 2000. He was …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 29: An Interview with Laurie Senauke

Laurie Senauke started formal Zen practice in 1980 at San Francisco Zen Center; she worked at Greens Restaurant back in the day and lived at Tassajara for three years. In …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 28: An Interview with Rinzan Pechovnik

Rinzan Pechovnik is a Rinzai Zen priest and is the teacher at No Rank Zendo in Portland Oregon.  Rinzan began his training with the Zen Community of Oregon in 2003, …

Podcasts / Science of Zen

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 27: The Science of Zen

Buddhist meditation is thousands of years old and has profoundly changed the lives of countless practitioners, but it is only very recently (in the last 4 years or so) have …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 26: An Interview with Susan Moon

Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the author of a number of books about Buddhism, including the humor book “The …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 25: An Interview with James Ishmael Ford

James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He has dharma transmission from Houn Jiyu Kennett and Inka Shomei from John Nanryu Ji’un-ken Tarrant. He is …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 24: An Interview with Kellie Shojaku Garza

 Kellie Shojaku Garza M.A., LMHC, CST., is a licensed mental health counselor and has been practicing psychotherapy since 2004. A large part of her practice and focus has been on …

Podcasts / Zen Lamp

Simplicity Zen Podcast Episode 23: An Interview with Myo Lahey

Rev. Myō Lahey is a Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson and is the Abbot at Issan-ji as well as Guiding Teacher at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento, California. …

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