Sangha Teacher Area...
About The Teacher
Pat Hawk Roshi is the Guiding Teacher of the Zen Desert Sangha. Hawk Roshi
has been leading Zen retreats or sesshin in Tucson since 1989. He has lived
in Tucson since 1998 and resides at Picture Rocks Retreat. Hawk Roshi has
been a Catholic priest since 1969 and is also a teacher of Christian
contemplative practice. He is a student and dharma heir of Robert Aitken
Roshi and received dharma transmission from Aitken Roshi in 1989 at Koko An
Zendo in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Link to Pat Hawk
Roshi's page at Desert Renewal
About Zen Practice
"Our practice is there to enable us to have the eyes to see, and the ears to
hear, in the new moment. Once we have had a taste of this we may also
experience the necessity of doing it. It is a natural demand in the depths
of our soul....Sit in the best posture you can manage. Put your attention on
your breath. When your attention is captured by something else, let go. Look,
listen. All is there. All is within you. All grace has been given. Have faith.
What we call present is already past." --Pat Hawk Roshi
note: Click on the small images below to see them at full(er) size.
Pat Hawk Roshi; Guiding teacher of Zen Desert Sangha
(Photo by Helen Amerongen, June, 2004. Used by kind permission).
Our Sangha teacher, Pat Hawk Roshi, in the garden of Indiana Nelson's house
in Tucson, c. 1996.
Pat Hawk Roshi, and Paul Markl, after Paul's jukai ("Taking-the-Buddhist-Precepts")
ceremony, at the end of sesshin in ZDS zendo in 2000 (photo by JM).
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