Taking realization into everyday life

Jan Chozen Soule, Sensei is a pediatrician, acupuncturist and mother of three teenagers, as well as a Zen teacher, She began sitting in 1973 with Maezumi Roshi at Zen Center of Los Angeles. In 1975, she took lay Buddhist precepts, and in 1979, was ordained as a nun. Last summer she officially became a teacher and was recognized as one of Maezumi Roshi's Dharma heirs. This summer she moved to Portland, Oregon, to do a sabbatical from teaching and a personal retreat for two years. She will work as a pediatrician part-tim