There are the headline stars of socially engaged Buddhism, like His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. And then there are the lesser-known folks like Wendy Johnson who are beautiful, hidden gems. I’ve been lucky enough to know Wendy for almost 15 years now and for the past three days, I’ve been enjoying being part of “True Nourishment from the Boundless Field,” a retreat with Wendy and Sensei Beate Stolte here at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe. Wendy has been a Zen practitioner for 35 years in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. She helped to found the organic farm and gardening program at Green Gulch Zen Center in 1975, and she’s taught gardening and environmental education since the early 1980s. Joanna Macy once said, “If Earth took a human voice, it would be Wendy’s: wry, fierce, passionately attentive to detail, and so startling in its wild freedom it’s almost scary.” upaya.org/2014/05/true-nourishment-boundless-field-wendy-johnson/
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 10:50:36 +0000
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