Zen Center North Shore Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
Guest Teacher Jisho Sara Siebert Home-leaving and Justice
We are pleased to welcome Jisho Sara Siebert!
Drawing on both a Buddhist home leaving perspective and from her work/ practice, Jisho shares with us her view of right relationships as transformative, and home leaving as a path to dropping the stories and relationships we were raised with, in order to form unlikely ones in the service of justice.
Jisho is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest who was led to Buddhism by the suffering around her and in her work to prevent domestic and sexual violence. Her path to understand suffering and joy led her to Los Angeles – where she first met her teacher, Gengo Akiba Roshi, then to Papua New Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, monasteries in Japan, and Haiti. At present she works for organizations based in Haiti and Uganda committed to preventing violence against girls and women and ending child slavery. She is recognized as an International Zen Teacher (Kokusaifukyoshi) by the Soto Shu and teaches at Zen Fields in Ames, Iowa.
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free