Deming Zen Group

Breaking news today: we are pleased to announce that Judy Roitman, JDPSN will visit Deming in January and lead a retreat.

JDPSN is the abbreviation for Ji Do Poep Sa Nim.  This is a title that was conferred by the late Zen Master Seung Sahn and now by his successors, when one receives "inka," the initial authorization as an independent Zen teacher.

Judy received inka from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1998.  She is the Guiding Teacher of the Kansas Zen Center, which she co-founded in 1978.  You can visit her Zen Center's website after clicking the "links" tab above this page.

We are very excited to host Judy for the weekend of January 15-18, 2010.  Participants will be able to participate in kong-an (better known in Japanese as "koan") teaching interviews, a lively and spontaneous teaching method unique to the Zen tradition. 

Details on that weekend's retreat and any other public events will be announced on this page as they become final.  For the moment, why not pencil some X's through that weekend on your calendar?