On Sunday Oct. 11 our guest speaker will be Rev. Myo-O Marilyn Habermas-Scher, a Zen Teacher in the lineage of Katagiri Roshi.. From her web site:
Practicing intensively in the Zen and Vipassana Buddhist traditions, Myo-O has been continuously working to deepen her insight for more than thirty-five years. In 2000 she was ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition with the name Ryugin Myo-O which means “Dragon Song, Subtle Working”. She is affiliated with Hokyoji Zen Practice Community in southeastern Minnesota under the direction of Rev. Dokai Ron Georgesen. She has taught at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul and at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, and for the past fifteen years she has lectured in many settings, from Unitarian Societies to maximum security prisons. She has recently completed a year-long chaplain residency at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview and is currently working as a chaplain at Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.