Accessible and elegant teachings from a well-loved and revered woman Zen teacher.
Katherine Thanas was a renowned dharma teacher who was the founding teacher for the Monterey Bay Zen Center and abbot of the Santa Cruz Zen Center. Katherine was introduced to Zen by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1967, and she trained with him at Sokoji, San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Farm. She received lay ordination from Suzuki Roshi, was ordained as a priest by Zentatsu Baker Roshi in 1975, and received shiho (dharma transmission) from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1988. She died in 2012 at the age of 85.
“Katherine Thanas stands firm and tall amid this generation of
early American Zen pioneers.”—Norman Fischer, author of What is
Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind
“The book demonstrates Katherine Thanas Roshi’s ability to tie
together personal narratives, Zen teachings, art, and literature:
her essays include the words of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, William
Stafford, and Rumi alongside those of historical Zen masters such
as Dogen and contemporary teachers such as Katagiri Roshi. Using
these writings and examples drawn from her own life, she makes even
abstruse Zen concepts clear.”—Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
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