Be the light for yourself, let the dharma be your light #19 - Lynne Lockie on Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

For the last three weeks, Lynne shared with us her life with Buddhism over 60 years. This week, she is going to share with us her precious and personal episodes with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Sensei, the founder of San Francisco Zen center.

Lynne Lockie has been an artist, writer, psychotherapist and a teacher of meditation and mindfulness practices. She has been practicing meditation and spiritual disciplines/ways of skillful living for over 60 years, starting with her teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1959 in San Francisco. She received ordination as a lay practitioner from him in 1964, among the first ordained students of Zen Center. Since 2017, Lynne has also worked with New College of Florida to bring mindfulness practices to the campus.