Bonnie Myotai Treace

Bonnie Myotai Treace
Bonnie Myotai Treace Sensei of Black Mountain Zen, Black Mountain, NC
TitleSensei
Personal
Born1956
ReligionZen Buddhism
LineageSoto Zen
Senior posting
TeacherMaezumi Roshi, Daido Roshi
Based inHermitage Heart
PredecessorJohn Daido Loori
SuccessorPhil Sengetsu Kolman

Bonnie Myotai Treace is a Zen teacher and priest, the founder of Hermitage Heart, and formerly the abbot of the Zen Center of New York City (ZCNYC). She teaches currently in Black Mountain and Asheville, North Carolina. Myotai Sensei is the first Dharma successor of John Daido Loori, Roshi, in the Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO), having received shiho, dharma transmission, from him in 1996. Serving and training for over two decades in the MRO, she was the establishing teacher and first abbess of the ZCNYC. At the Monastery she was the Vice Abbot, the first director of Dharma Communications, editor of Mountain Record, and coordinator of the affiliates of the MRO. Treace, ordained as a Zen monastic, now lives as a lay teacher, working primarily with her long-term students.

Treace holds an advanced degree in literature and was a lobbyist for women's issues and an analyst with the Potomac Research Institute specializing in hydromechanics.[citation needed]

In 2016 Myotai gave shiho to Phil Sengetsu Kolman, Sensei, and named John Kyoman Weiczorek as Dharma Steward of Hermitage Heart.[citation needed]

Treace is the author of five books: A Year of Zen, Wake Up, Zen Meditation for Beginners, Winter Moon: A Season of Zen, and Empty Branches. She has also had chapters in Water: Its Spiritual Significance (Vons Fitae Press), The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza, and Lotus Moon: The Poetry of Rengetsu, along with many other writings.[citation needed] Myotai's teachings have appeared in various Buddhist publications, including Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, Mountain Record and in several editions of The Best Buddhist Writing. [1][2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Stevens, 128
  2. ^ Loori
  3. ^ Seager, 257
  4. ^ Prebish, 100
  5. ^ "Zen Meditation And Dharma Talk on "Koans Of Water" to be Held at St. Mary's". Archived from the original on 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2008-02-16.