This Noble Path series offers personal accounts of MRO sangha members coming to practice and dives into their experiences walking the spiritual path. A diverse set of students and circumstances shows us the many unique ways we encounter and resonate with the Dharma. Yet, despite these differences, we often find a shared thread in each others stories.
Kien Martin, MRO Monastic Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Brooklyn 6/22/2025
Ikyo Love, MRO Student – 1/12/25 – “Making it my own.”
Kien Martin, MRO Monastic – ZCNYC – 12/29/24 – A Path of Faith, Doubt and Determination.
Sandy Joshin Del Valle, Lay Student – ZCNYC – 9/29/24 – Joshin offers words of encouragement to take with us on our path, as she recounts her own experience in her Zen practice.
Zabeth Tenfu Loisel, Lay Student – ZCNYC – 6/30/24 – How precious! The sangha treasure.
Chikyuu Donohue, Lay Student
Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Sunday 06/02/2024
Sandy Joshin Del Valle, Lay Student – ZCNYC – 5/26/24 – Joshin offers words of encouragement to take with us on our path, as she recounts her own stories of coming into Zen practice, and how developing constancy in this practice has transformed her life.
Taisho Sands, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Brooklyn 03/19/2023
Chikyuu Donohue, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Brooklyn 08/14/2022
Tenfu Loisel, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Brooklyn 07/24/2022
Virginia Black, Sangha Member – Zen Center of New York City, 05/20/2021
Zabeth Tenfu Loisel, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, 04/15/2021
Diego Antoni, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, 03/18/2021
Tommy Smoot, Sangha Member – Zen Center of New York City, 10/29/2020
Oliver Jay Hartman, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, 10/01/2020
Sandy Joshin Del Valle, Lay Student – Zen Center of New York City, 09/29/2020
