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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. He has previously served as the Practice Leader at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and has served leadership roles in the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of…

 Daniel Terragno, a native of Chile, is a teacher in the koan tradition of the Diamond Sangha, which was founded by Robert Aitken Roshi. Daniel is the dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of the Pacific Zen Institute. Daniel started his spiritual practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland before taking up…

Shozan Jack Haubner is an ordained Rinzai Zen priest and was a student of Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. He has written to memoirs (Zen Confidential,Single White Monk) about his experiences studying with Sasaki and is currently working on a third book. For more about Shozan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9Q74t3o7AUCJ_bKTc5CgA Youtube Version: Audio Versions:

Ben Connelly is a Senior Zen Teacher at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. Ben began Zen practice at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 2001, was ordained in 2009, and received dharma transmission in 2015. He is currently serving as Program Administrator. He started teaching Introduction to Meditation in 2005, and since then has taught regularly…

Geoff started to study Zen at the Zen Center of Denver in March of 1991. In November of 1996, he received the rakusu during Jukai–his ordained name is Strongvow. He studied with Danan Henry Roshi until Danan retired in 2009, when he continued he study with one of his heirs, Kenneth Morgareidge, Roshi. Geoff finished…

Brad Warner was born in Ohio in 1964. In 1983 he met Zen teacher Tim McCarthy and began his study of Zen while he was still the bass player of the hardcore punk band Zero Defex, whose big hit was the eighteen-second masterpiece “Drop the A-Bomb on Me!” In the 1980s he released five albums…

Teresa Regan Hess practiced for five years under the renowned Rinzai Zen Master Shodo Harada Rōshi at Sogen-ji monastery in Japan. There she received the Jukai precepts before leaving to raise a family in Washington state. Youtube Version: Audio Versions:

Robert Mutoku Schaefer is a Rinzai Zen priest ordained Rinzan Pechovnik Osho of No Rank Zendo in 2022. After years of following many spiritual paths, Robert began studying Zen under Rick Kendo Hart in the Mt Baldy Zen Center lineage. Next he began Zen studies with Konrad Ryushin Marchaj at Zen Mountain Monastery and remained…

Robert Koho Epstein, Sensei has practiced meditation and a wide range of spiritual practices over the past 40 years. This includes Zen and mindfulness meditation, Yang style T’ai Chi, Iyengar Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta. Robert taught Iyengar Yoga and practiced deep tissue massage for 15 years in New York and was ordained by the New…

Barbara O’brien has been practicing Zen Buddhism since the 1980s. She works as a journalist, reporting primarily on religion in America. She is the author of The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World, Rethinking Religion: Finding a Place for Religion in a Modern, Tolerant, Progressive,…