Robert Jin Gen Ertman
Dharma Name: Jin Gen
Title: Sensei
Preferred Name: Bob
Organization: Silver Spring Zendo/One Heart Sangha
Lineage: White Plum
Bob is a dharma heir of Rose Mary Myoan Dougherty, Sensei, and a long-time member of the Silver Spring Zendo/One Heart Sangha, where he is currently serving as the guiding teacher. He is also a member of the Zen Peacemakers and is grateful for the way it has shaped his practice in all of life. He writes and teaches haiku as a practice of being fully in the present moment. He received the precepts at Boundless Way Zen from James Ford, David Rynick, & Melissa Blacker. Bob is a retired federal attorney and lives in Annapolis with his wife, Phyllis. Together they are facilitators of a Mindfulness Practice Group at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis. In his spare time, Bob collects fossils, with his daughter Hallie when he can (they began when she was four—she's thirty-something now).
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