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John Tarrant, Roshi, is Director and
Senior Faculty for Pacific Zen Institute and Senior Teacher for Desert
Lotus Zen Sangha in Phoenix, AZ. He has a PhD in psychology and is the
author of Bring Me The Rhinoceros & Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life, and The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul & the Spiritual
Life. He also teaches at Integrative Medicine within Duke University
Medical School. John’s life work is centered on the transformation
of consciousness and he is one of the foremost koan teachers in the United
States. website: tarrantworks.com blog: zenosaurus.blogspot.com Q&A blog: Q&A blog on Shambhala SunSpace |
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David Weinstein, Roshi, is lead teacher at PZI’s Oakland Zendo and San Jose Sitting Group. He is also a visiting teacher at the Springs Mountain Sangha in Colorado Springs. David lives in Oakland with his wife, where he is a psychotherapist specializing in addiction and spirituality. His teaching emphasizes ways of discovering true Zen practice in the midst of ordinary life. He is especially interested helping people cultivate an appreciation of koan practice as a way of recognizing our lives as works of art. |
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Rachel Howlett, Roshi is a Koan Teacher
for Pacific Zen Institute and Desert Lotus Zen Sangha in Phoenix, AZ.
She has degrees in botany and law and practices environmental, preservation
and land use law in Santa Rosa, California. One of Rachel's particular
strengths is in using dialogue as a way of encouraging people to find
their own authentic life, and she has designed and taught a series of
teachings in this conversation format called Developing a Personal
Practice. Rachel is interested in transforming points of view and
creating a culture sympathetic to the environment. She offers private/group
counsel and meditation practices designed to support those dedicated to
doing advocacy work of all kinds. |
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Brian Howlett, Sensei is an artist who
first began exploring the links between Zen and visual art as artist in
residence at Coyote School of Fine Arts in the 1970s and has a Masters
in Fine Art. His work explores the connections between the spiritual moment
and the earthiness and unpredictability in modern American life. In his artwork Brian makes links between characters in his personal experience, the grand figures of Buddhist history, and Zen koans. He works in acrylics, watercolor, and ink, with a mixture of abstraction, cartoon figures and a lyric appreciation of landscape. His works are in many private collections. Brian has a special interest in integrating Zen and art, and for many years he led regular introductory meditation classes at PZI in Santa Rosa. He currently leads an ongoing series of programs integrating Zen and art in Santa Rosa, and he is developing additional programs that bring Zen into daily life through the arts. Brian is based in Santa Rosa, CA website: dharmadog.net |
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