Sit, Breathe, Bow

Phil Jones has practiced meditation since 1987. His early formation was grounded in the Zen tradition, but in 1992 he began practicing in the Insight tradition and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1996. He graduated from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Community Dharma Leader program in 2000. For a number of years he studied with Matthew Flickstein and more recently with Shaila Catherine. He has served on the board of directors of Mid America Dharma, the regional retreat organization, since the mid-'90's. Phil is also the founder of the Silent Mind-Open Heart sangha in Columbia, Missouri. You can find many of his essays and talks at: http://silentmindopenheart.org/ And https://showmedharma.org/ You can reach Phil by email at: [email protected] Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Beth Kanji Goldring began practicing Japanese Zen in 1979 and became a student of Maurine Stuart Roshi in 1982. Following her lay ordination in 1986, Beth moved to Palestine working as a human rights advocate for the next seven years. After returning to the U.S., she spent a year at Harvard/Radcliffe's Bunting Institute before taking full ordination in 1995. Beth began working with the International Network of Engaged Buddhists in Thailand and then moved to Cambodia in 1996, inspired by Maha Ghosananda. In the year 2000, she founded Brahmavihara Cambodia, a Buddhist chaplaincy organization, to provide emotional and spiritual support for destitute AIDS patients and their families, which she ran until the end of 2016. In addition to Zen, Beth has also studied Tibetan Tonglen with Alan Wallace and, beginning in 2003, Vipassana with Gil Fronsdal. She received full authorization as a teacher from Gil in 2017. You can her dharma talks at https://www.audiodharma.org/ and you’re welcome to contact her by emailing [email protected] Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Dae Bong was born in 1950 in Philadelphia, PA. He studied psychology at university and later worked as a psychiatric counselor in a hospital and as a welder in a shipyard. But after hearing Zen Master Seung Sahn speak in 1977 he quit to pursue the dharma living and practicing with his teacher full time at different Zen centers around the world. Zen Master Dae Bong ordained as a monk in 1984 and received inka, or permission to teach, in 1992. He was given transmission to become a Zen master in 1999 and presently serves as Abbot and Jo Shil, resident Zen Master, of Musangsa International Zen Center in Korea. He is also the regional Zen master in Asia for the Kwan Um School of Zen. You can find out more by visiting the website for Musangsa temple at http://www.musangsa.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Stephen Fulder was born in London in 1946. He studied at University of Oxford and the National Institute of Medical Research, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Stephen has published 14 books in the field of complementary and herbal medicine. He began to practice in 1976 as a student of S.N. Goenka and Mother Sayama. In 1981, he moved to Israel and founded Tovana, the Israel Insight Society, in 1995, where he serves as senior teacher. Stephen has been involved in the Middle East peace process as a founder of People to People and later of the MiddleWay organization. His latest book, ‘What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life’ was published in January 2019. You can find out more about his teaching by visiting his website https://www.stephenfulder.com/ If you can read Hebrew and would like to learn more about insight meditation opportunities in Israel visit https://tovana.org.il And please consider picking up a copy of his new book ‘What’s Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life.’ https://amzn.to/2DV4uSA Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Kim Allen grew up in California where nature served as an early path for her spiritual life. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in material physics and began working as a technology analyst. But changes in her health refocused her journey, and in 2003 she began to meditate seriously, guided by her teacher Gil Fronsdal. She soon began sitting many long retreats, and in 2008 Kim was invited to begin teaching. Today she leads groups in Los Gatos and Santa Cruz and is a frequent guest teacher in other area Insight centers. Visit her website to read essays, listen to dharma talks, see her teaching schedule, and sign-up for online courses. www.uncontrived.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Zen Master Bon Hae, Judy Roitman, began practicing with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1976 while teaching at Wellesley College. In 1978, she joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, married her husband Stan Lombardo (now Zen Master Hae Kwang) and helped found what became the Kansas Zen Center. Zen Master Bon Hae received inka, or permission to teach, in 1998 and transmission in 2013. You can find some of her articles in Buddhadharma, much of her poetry online, and most of her mathematics papers behind institutional paywalls. Zen Master Bon Hae is currently the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center. You can find out more about Zen Master Bon Hae's teaching and retreat schedule by visiting the Kansas Zen Center’s website https://kansaszencenter.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Sister Clare Carter was raised Catholic in West Roxbury MA. In 1977 she encountered the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order at a peace vigil in front of Faneuil Hall in Boston and 4 years later ordained as nun assuming her order’s vows of healing the world of materialism and violence through the spiritual practices of chanting, prayer, constructing peace pagodas, and pilgrimage. She has participated in multiple pilgrimages for peace and justice, both locally and internationally, in an effort to witness to the suffering and inspiring transformation. Sister Clare Carter was the co-founder of the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage, a year-long spiritual journey tracing the history and impact of slavery starting in Massachusetts walking down the eastern seaboard to New Orleans, through the Caribbean, to the slave dungeons of West Africa, culminating ultimately in South Africa. You can find out more about her practice by visiting https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org If you would like to get involved with Listening to the Call of the Great Spirit: facing 400 years of Colonization since the Mayflower Landed please email: [email protected] Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org

Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei, began his Zen studies in 1987 at Zen Mountain Monastery with John Daido Loori Roshi. In 2001 he moved to Toledo and co-founded the Toledo Zen Meditation Group with his wife Rev. Karen Do’on Weik Osho and later continued his Zen study with Bonnie Myotai Trace Sensei, Daido Roshi’s first dharma heir and with Fr. Kevin Hunt Sensei. In 2009 he became a student of James Ford Roshi from whom he received transmission in 2014. Today Jay serves as abbot and guiding teacher of the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo. He is a professor of Classical and Jazz Guitar at the University of Toledo and holds a 5th degree back belt in Aikido and serves as the Guiding Sensei at Shobu Aikido of Ohio. You can find out more about Rinsen's teaching by visiting https://www.buddhisttempleoftoledo.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzen.org/online

Shaila Catherine began meditating in 1980 and quickly fell in love with the practice of silent contemplation accumulating over nine years of silent retreat experience. The wisdom gained through direct encounter with the dhamma along with the guidance of teachers from India, Thailand, Nepal, and the West allowed Shaila the opportunity to deeply explore meditation, including the absorption states of jhana and insight practices. She has authored two books, Focused and Fearless and Wisdom Wide and Deep, which introduce and guide practitioners to develop powerful concentration techniques supporting liberating insight. She is the founder and principle teacher at Insight Meditation South Bay in California and the creator of Bodhi Courses, an online Buddhist classroom. If you would like to sit a retreat with Shaila you can find her schedule at https://www.imsb.org Her online course can be found at https://bodhicourses.org Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/

Gregory Kramer has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1980 and in 1995 began offering instruction in Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation designed to highlight the relational dimensions of the dharma. Gregory’s teaching emphasizes an integrated path of development, where individual and interpersonal meditation are joined with contemplation, ethical inquiry, and a commitment to kindness. He is the author of Insight Dialogue: The interpersonal path to freedom. Gregory is the founding teacher of the Metta Foundation and leads retreats in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. Please consider picking up a copy of his book, Insight Dialogue: The interpersonal path to freedom. You can find his retreat schedule at: https://metta.org/ https://gregorykramer.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://ianwhitemaher.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Providence Zen Center. http://providencezen.org/