Shodo Harada Roshi with Host Michael Lerner
~Co-presented with Commonweal Healing Circles~
Join New School Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Zen priest Shodo Harada Roshi. This is the Roshi’s third visit to the New School, and the next conversation in our End-of-Life Conversations series.
Also, see our new video of a spiritual biography conversation between Michael and the Roshi:
Shodo Harada Roshi
Shodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahoma Monastery on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. He founded Enso House, a hospice affiliated with Tahoma, where his students attend the dying. He is a master of Japanese calligraphy, and has conducted demonstrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His translator and colleague, Priscilla Daichi Storandt, is co-abbot at Tahoma and a senior teacher in her own right. Find out more on his website.
Michael Lerner
Host
Michael is the president emeritus and co-founder of Commonweal. His principal work today at Commonweal is with the Cancer Help Program, CancerChoices, the Omega Resilience Projects, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, and Commonweal New School. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1984 and is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Therapies (MIT Press).
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