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From 1985 until 1991, the Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi laid the foundations of the training curriculum of the White Wind Zen Community. In the autumn of 1991 he formally retired from any form of public teaching or beginner-level instruction in order to be able to devote himself entirely to monastics and formal students (deshi) committed to realizing the Transmission of the Lineage. Using the vast body of Teachings and standards that Roshi continually provides, the Practice Council of authorized Teachers and instructors now provide any introductory workshops, Dharma Assemblies, retreats, classes or public speaking or Teaching events that are necessary.

The Practice Council consists of Dharma Teachers who have received Transmission of Shiho and of authorized practice advisors. Roshi continues to oversee the training of each student through reviews of each practice interview or daisan with the Practice Council.

Dharma Teacher Shikai Zuiko

 

 

In 2008 Shikai Zuiko osho began weekly Dharma talks on the 139 verses from “The Practice of Purity, Verses from the Flower Garland Discourse”, drawn from the Avatamsaka Sutra as translated by Zen Master Anzan Hoshin and Shikai osho, published in 1996. This series of talks, entitled “Every Breath You Take” should continue into 2010.   

This series, and other Dharma talks, draws forth the Teachings and the understanding of students so that they can become intimate with each other. A collection of Dharma Talks and poetry, “Freedom and Tyranny” is available on our Great Matter Publication Page. 


In 1987, after a life-long search through most religious and spiritual traditions to discover “what’s really going on”, struck by the irrefutable truth of the Dharma as taught by the Lineage of Anzan Hoshin Hakukaze roshi, the Osho began to practise and study with the Roshi. Receiving ordination as a monk in 1988 and serving in all the major training posts she received Shiho Transmission as a Dharma Successor in May 2001. 

She has introduced hundreds of people to the practice of mindfulness at Zen workshops in Canada, the U.S.A, Britain and Europe. No longer traveling, she continues to teach face-to-face in Daisan, and by email, and telephone 

Before retiring to devote her time and energy to sho-jo-no-shu or “realized-practice” the Osho worked and taught for over forty years in a variety of communication fields, in Canada and abroad. Photographs, paintings, multi-media works, and videos, shown nationally and internationally, have received awards. Some photographs are on our website

An interest in design and aesthetics is now more specialized, informed by “Yarikuri shitate”, hidden beauty and reuse of materials. 

Osho continues baking for Monastery residents and retreatants, and caring for feline companions Kido and Kitsune, and the rescued goldfish, Doug, Edward, Wallis, Big Ronald, Aubrey, Mini, and Lamont.


Dharma Teacher Jinmyo Renge

Ven. Jinmyo Renge osho-ajari is a Dharma-successor of Zen Master Anzan Hoshin's Lineage. She received Shiho Transmission from the Roshi on December 8th, 2001.   

Jinmyo osho has been a student of the Roshi since 1991 and is a fully ordained monk of the Northern Mountain Order. She has presented the monthly Introduction to Zen Workshops held at the monastery since 1995. In addition to providing instruction to Sangha members practising at the monastery in Ottawa she corresponds by email with a large number of students practising in other parts of the world. She is responsible for presenting and organizing many resources such as the Retreat Handbook and other materials.

As well as bearing a vast range of responsibilities within the Sangha, she has trained in the time-honoured post of tenzo since 1992 and has trained students in oryoki practice since 1995. While serving in the training posts of Shuso, Ino and Godo, her responsibilities included overseeing Great Matter Publications and White Wind Zen Community Archives, as well as the duplication, preservation and transcription of our extensive collection of recorded teisho, Dharma Talks and classes. She has produced weekly issues of the Sangha electronic newsletter, "The eMirror" since 1998 and updates our Website each week. She worked with Anzan Hoshin roshi on the translation of the Bonmokyo (Bramajala sutra), on the Ten Grave and 48 Supporting Precepts.

  Her Dharma Talks reveal the humour, strength and vulnerability characteristic of deep practice.

 

      Previous to acceptance as a formal student by the Roshi in 1991, Jinmyo osho's background included long study in Sufism, Islam, Hinduism and the Gurdjieff Work. She was a close student of the Sufi master M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and was trained as an instructor of the Gurdjieff Movements through the Foundation in New York.

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