Ordinary Mind Zen School

Ordinary Mind Zen School
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Affiliation	Zen
Architecture
Founder	Charlotte Joko Beck, Elizabeth Hamilton, Diane Eshin Rizzetto, Elihu Genmyo Smith
Completed	1995

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The Ordinary Mind Zen School is a network of independent Zen centers established by Charlotte Joko Beck and her Dharma Successors in 1995.

History[]

The school is unaffiliated with any Zen centers which fall outside of its own network, however many Ordinary Mind Zen teachers are members of the White Plum Asanga.^[1] The history of the Ordinary Mind Zen School dates back to 1983, which was the year that Joko Beck had left the Zen Center of Los Angeles.^[2] That was the year her teacher, Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, had been confronted by his students about his alcoholism and sexual liaisons with some female students. Joko Beck established the Zen Center of San Diego^[3] in 1983, currently run by Ezra Bayda and Elizabeth Hamilton, though Joko Beck had disassociated herself from these teachers.^[4]^[5]

According to Richard Hughes Seager, "By 1998, the Ordinary Mind School had centers in San Diego, Champaign, Illinois, Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon and New York City."^[6] There is no one set structure of curriculum in the Ordinary Mind School, as the Dharma Successors of Joko Beck get to decide their method of training independent of any organizational head. Long before retirement, Joko Beck had done away with all titles and no longer wore her okesa. She had distanced herself considerably from her roots in the Sōtō school, and much of the ceremony had been abandoned in favor of pure meditation practice.^[2]

Teachers[]

Barry Magid (Ordinary Mind Zendo)
Pat Jikyo George (Zen Center of Philadelphia)
Elihu Genmyo Smith (Prairie Zen Center)
Diane Rizzetto (Bay Zen Center)
Dan Birnbaum (Bay Zen Center)^[7]
Gregg Howard (Ordinary Mind Zen Brisbane)
Geoff Dawson (Ordinary Mind Zen Sydney)
Andrew Tootell (OzZen)
Peg Syverson (Appamada in Austin, TX)
Karen Terzano (Ordinary Mind Zendo Finland & Sweden)
Malcolm Martin (Ordinary Mind Zendo UK)
Ezra Bayda
Elizabeth Hamilton
Al Zolynas (Freeway Zen, Escondido, CA)
Diane Moore (Santa Rosa Zen Group)
Ezequiel D´León Masís (SAMU - Zen Lab, Nicaragua)
Anna Christensen
Timo Teräväinen (Ordinary Mind Zendo Finland)
Magnus Norén (Ordinary Mind Zendo Sweden)
Vincent Leo Jensen (Ordinary Mind Zendo Bellingen, Australia)

Dissolved Groups

Larry Christensen (Zen Center of Portland)

References[]

^ "Membership List | The White Plum Asanga". whiteplum.org. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
^ ^a ^b Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. pp. 173–175. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
^ Zen Center of San Diego
^ "Stuart Lachs". Non-Duality. August 26, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
^ "Barry Magid Interview". Sweeping Zen. June 4, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
^ Seager, 102
^ "About Us". Bay Zen Center. Retrieved 2019-10-30.

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