10am-12pm – Sunday Service and Dharma Talk-Kanshin Allison Tait – Rise Again (Down Seven, Up Eight)

We begin with ceremony, chanting, and two periods of meditation. After meditation, Kanshin will give a dharma talk.

Kanshin has been practicing Zen since 2004. She comes to Seattle Soto Zen after ten years of residency at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the San Francisco Zen Center. Kanshin joined the Tassajara Sangha in 2010 after taking lay precepts from her guiding teacher, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, receiving from him the name Kyoji Kanshin, meaning “Humble Self, Generous Heart.”

In 2013 she was ordained as a Zen priest by Rev. Fischer. While living at San Francisco Zen Center she became a certified Buddhist chaplain by Gil Fronsdal at the Sati Center for Buddhist Chaplaincy, as well as being certified as an interfaith chaplain by the Sojourn Chaplaincy organization.