GORDON HAKUUN GREENE
Gordon Hakuun Greene began his koan training with Tenshin Tanouye Rotaishi, Abbot of Daihonzan Chozen-ji, in 1978, becoming ordained in 1987 and receiving inka in 1997. He ended his work as a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii in 2006, moving to Wisconsin in order to develop a rural Zen training center. While supervising the building of the Spring Green Dojo, he recognized how readily the hard work reinforced the breath and posture necessary for useful meditation, leading to a teaching emphasis on the manual labor of Zen meditation. He is currently the resident priest for Spring Green Dojo and Abbot of Chosei Zen. His work as a medical educator and hospital chaplain led him to write the book Facing Suffering, an account of his training as a chaplain and an articulation of the physicality of that work, one grounded in his Zen training. The practice of shodo (Zen calligraphy) continues as an integral part of his ongoing Zen training. He has also been editing a series of Chosei publications called Tanouye Roshi Teaches, introducing students to his teacher’s approach to teaching Zen in a wide variety of settings.
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