Zen Lamp

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.