Janet Jiryu Abels

Dharma Name: Jiryu 

Title: Sensei

Preferred Name: Janet

Organization: Still Mind Zendo

Lineage: White Plum Asanga 

Janet Jiryu Abels, founder of Still Mind Zendo in New York City, has been a teacher in the Soto-Rinzai lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga since 2000 when she became a dharma successor of her teacher, Roshi Robert Jinsen Kennedy. She is a certified Bio-Spiritual Focusing teacher and is the author of Making Zen Your Own: Giving Life to Twelve Key Golden Age Ancestors, published by Wisdom. 

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