Palolo Zen Center, Hawaii The Zen boom of the 1960s and ’70s was largely a youth phenomenon. It’s said that one of the reasons Dainin Katagiri established his Zen Center in Minneapolis was because he had not been at ease with the counter-culture young people who flooded the San Francisco Zen Center. He wanted hisContinue reading “Michael Kieran”
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Barry Magid
Ordinary Mind Zendo, New York – “Like a lot of people in the 1960s,” Barry Magid tells me, “I encountered Zen through the Beats, in reading Kerouac and Gary Snyder. I found Alan Watts and D. T. Suzuki and those folks. So at some point I noticed the characters who were still alive – whoContinue reading “Barry Magid”
Kurt Spellmeyer
Cold Mountain Sangha, New Jersey “I’m from a mixed background/heritage, and religion really wasn’t an important part of my upbringing,” Kurt Spellmeyer tells me. “I became interested in all kinds of religious traditions, but it wasn’t part of our family’s experience.” I ask what the mix was. “Well, I was really ‘all of the above’Continue reading “Kurt Spellmeyer”
Richard Bryan McDaniel 