The Talk Nobody Wants to Hear ~ Charlotte Joko Beck ~ Zen Buddhism

This is a reading of extracts of a talk given by Charlotte Joko
Beck taken from the text 'Everyday Zen'. Charlotte Joko Beck
(March 27, 1917 – June 15, 201) was an American Zen teacher and
the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing
Special: Living Zen. Born in New Jersey, Beck studied music at
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and worked for some time as a
pianist and piano teacher. She married and raised a family of
four children, then separated from her husband and worked as a
teacher, secretary, and assistant in a university department. She
began Zen practice in her 40s with Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi in Los
Angeles, and later with Hakuun Yasutani and Soen Nakagawa.Beck
received Dharma transmission from Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1978,
but broke with Maezumi over his actions and opened Zen Center San
Diego in 1983, serving as its head teacher until July 2006. Beck
was responsible for a number of important innovations in Zen
teaching. Because she was adept at teaching students to work with
their psychological states, she attracted a number of students
who were interested in the relationship between Zen and modern
psychology.





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