Simplicity Zen Podcast

Barbara Baccei is a senior Zen student under Soto Zen priest Valorie Beer. She is currently in preparation for Lay Dharma Entrustment and is a teacher of sewing the Buddha's robe. For more about the S...

6 Aug 20221h 4min

Genryo Jones Osho is the instructor of Iron City Rinzai in Pittsburg, PA. He is a senior student and Osho under Meido Moore Roshi, abbot of Korinji in Wisconsin. He studied Zen under legendary Zen m...

22 Jul 20221h 40min

Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She lived at Green Gulch Fa...

8 Jul 20221h 7min

So-on Jim Hare serves as Tanto, or head of practice at Valley Streams Zen Sangha in Sacramento. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb An...

1 Jul 20221h 31min

Jamie Howell is a lay Zen Teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Soto Tradition. After many years of practice he received the precepts in a jukai ceremony in 2000. He was chairman of the board of San Francisco Z...

24 Jun 20221h 11min

Laurie Senauke started formal Zen practice in 1980 at San Francisco Zen Center; she worked at Greens Restaurant back in the day and lived at Tassajara for three years. In 1989 she married Hozan Alan S...

17 Jun 202253min

Rinzan Pechovnik is a Rinzai Zen priest and is the teacher at No Rank Zendo in Portland Oregon. Rinzan began his training with the Zen Community of Oregon in 2003, studying under Hogan and Chozen Bay...

10 Jun 20221h 40min

Buddhist meditation is thousands of years old and has profoundly changed the lives of countless practitioners, but it is only very recently (in the last 4 years or so) have neuroscientists reached a p...

9 Jun 202232min