Zen Master Bo Mun

I became the mother of two small children while working as a full-time clinical perinatologist at Brigham and Women’s hospital and running a basic neuroscience research lab at Harvard Medical School. My life was intense and demanding and I was profoundly dissatisfied. I felt the need for spiritual guidance, a north star that could help me find my way. I found George Bowman, founder and teacher of the Single Flower Sangha and became his student. George’s love and commitment to Zen practice was moving and deeply inspiring. I joined him in Zen training at Mt Baldy with Joshu Sasaki Roshi. In 2003, George gave me lay ordination and my dharma name, Myoko.