?Beginning a Life in Zen? will be the subject when Joen Snyder O?Neal
addresses the Feb. 17 meeting of the Emerald Coast Meditation Society.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with 30 minutes of silent
meditation. The location is Christ the King Episcopal Church, 480 Hwy.
393 N., a half mile north of Hwy. 98 in Santa Rosa Beach.
O?Neal is a Zen Buddhist priest who has been practicing and teaching
for more than 40 years. She is the guiding teacher at the
Compassionate Ocean Dharma Center in Minneapolis, which she co-founded
along with her husband, Michael O?Neal.
She plans to talk about what she calls ?the wondrous beginnings? of
her spiritual journey, which began in the late 1960s in Berkeley, CA.
She also lived a year and a half at The Farm in Tennessee, where the
first of her two daughters was born.
Her root Buddhist teacher was the late Dainin Katagiri Roshi of the
Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. She has also done monastic practice
with Thich Nhat Hanh, a noted Vietnamese Zen master with headquarters
in France; with Achaan Sumedho in England, and with Narasaki Roshi in
Japan.
She holds a bachelor?s degree in theater from Carnegie-Mellon
University and did three years of graduate study in theater at the
University of California, Berkeley. She had a career as a learning
disability specialist working with disabled adults at the college
level and above.
The ECMS is a nonsectarian group that welcomes meditators of all
varieties. It meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month.
Anyone who needs instruction should arrive by 6:15 p.m. For questions
contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com.
addresses the Feb. 17 meeting of the Emerald Coast Meditation Society.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. with 30 minutes of silent
meditation. The location is Christ the King Episcopal Church, 480 Hwy.
393 N., a half mile north of Hwy. 98 in Santa Rosa Beach.
O?Neal is a Zen Buddhist priest who has been practicing and teaching
for more than 40 years. She is the guiding teacher at the
Compassionate Ocean Dharma Center in Minneapolis, which she co-founded
along with her husband, Michael O?Neal.
She plans to talk about what she calls ?the wondrous beginnings? of
her spiritual journey, which began in the late 1960s in Berkeley, CA.
She also lived a year and a half at The Farm in Tennessee, where the
first of her two daughters was born.
Her root Buddhist teacher was the late Dainin Katagiri Roshi of the
Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. She has also done monastic practice
with Thich Nhat Hanh, a noted Vietnamese Zen master with headquarters
in France; with Achaan Sumedho in England, and with Narasaki Roshi in
Japan.
She holds a bachelor?s degree in theater from Carnegie-Mellon
University and did three years of graduate study in theater at the
University of California, Berkeley. She had a career as a learning
disability specialist working with disabled adults at the college
level and above.
The ECMS is a nonsectarian group that welcomes meditators of all
varieties. It meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month.
Anyone who needs instruction should arrive by 6:15 p.m. For questions
contact Nancy James, nancyjames@embarqmail.com.