{"id":15743,"date":"2017-04-05T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=15743"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:38:12","slug":"new-zen-teacher-town-welcoming-diane-shoshin-fitzgerald-sensei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2017\/04\/new-zen-teacher-town-welcoming-diane-shoshin-fitzgerald-sensei.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Zen Teacher in Town! Welcoming Diane Shoshin Fitzgerald Sensei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Melissa<\/a><\/p>\n

It is with great pleasure we announce that, late in the night of March 17, 2017, the Reverend Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi, gave Dharma<\/a> Transmission to the Reverend Diane Shoshin Fitzgerald, at a traditional private ceremony at Boundless Way Temple<\/a>, in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The ceremony of Denbo transmission within the Soto and Harada\/Yasutani Zen lineages was witnessed by other teachers of the community. Shoshin Sensei is the second full successor to Myozen Roshi. Following this Shoshin Sensei has been voted into the Guiding Teachers Leadership Council by the Boundless Way Zen<\/a>\u00a0Board.<\/p>\n

Also an ordained Soto Zen priest, as well as an attorney, Shoshin Sensei is a resident teacher at Boundless Way Temple, and leads\u00a0Boundless Way Zen DownEast<\/a> in Pembroke, Maine. She is also one of the leaders of the Boundless Way Zen and Boundless Way Zen DownEast EcoSattva action groups and is a volunteer with DownEast Maine Hospice Services.<\/p>\n

The BoWZ Guiding Teachers<\/p>\n

photograph by Kate Hartland, Sensei<\/em><\/p>\n