Uncertainty with Rev. Eshō Kikuko Morimoto

Rev Eshō Kikuko Morimoto was born in Kobe, Japan. She is an artist and a Japanese language teacher who has been practicing meditation since taking a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation course in 1995. Esho began practicing with the Brooklyn Zen Center sangha in 2011, where she eventually served as co-tenzo (head of kitchen) and as fukuten (assistant to the tenzo), and was lay-ordained by Soshin Teah Strozer in 2017. She also taught meditation classes at Brooklyn Zen Center and was a co-facilitator of the Brooklyn Zen Center BIPOC sangha. From 2019 until the spring of 2022, she lived and practiced at Ancestral Heart Zen Monastery in Millerton, NY, where she served as shika (guest manager) and tenzo (head of kitchen). She moved to Bloomington in the spring of 2022 to carry out an okesa sewing apprenticeship with Yuko Okumura and to practice in residence with the Sanshin Zen Community. Eshō was ordained as a novice by Okumura Roshi in December 2022. For six months during the fall of 2023 and the spring of 2024, she practiced in residence for two angos at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in Carmel Valley, CA, as part of her priest training.

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Thank you for showing some respect to this teacher and thank goodness nobody asked her to put her paypal in the chat like you did to another teacher.
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