Conversations with North American Zen Teachers
Peggy Rowe Ward
Lotus Institute Peggy Rowe Ward and her late husband, Larry Ward, established the Lotus Institute in the tradition of the Vietnamese teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. “As a little girl, I had a real connection with Jesus,” she tells me, “I really felt he was my friend. And I had a lot of insights being in…
Zenshuji
A conversation with Shumyo Kojima – In 1922 – two years before Sokei-an Sasaki began his lectures on Buddhism at the Orientalia Bookstore in New York City, and a full thirty-seven years prior to Shunryu Suzuki’s arrival in San Francisco – the Japanese Soto-shu established the Zenshuji Soto Mission in Los Angeles, the first Zen…
Ed Brown
Peaceful Sea Sangha – When we begin our conversation, Ed Brown tells me that the circumstances of his birth are a significant part of his Zen story. “I was born prematurely, and I was in the incubator for three weeks, and that has come to be a subject of my Zen practice. Because if you’re…
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