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Geri Larkin (1950-)

born Geraldine Kapp Willis

https://prabook.com/web/geri.larkin/2309811
P'arang Geri Larkin, born Geraldine Kapp Willis, is founder and former head teacher of Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple, a Korean Chogye center in Detroit, Michigan.

Background

Larkin, daughter of a wealthy International Business Machines Corporation executive, left her successful business life as a management consultant to enter a Buddhist seminary for three years, where she was ordained.

Education

She graduated from Barnard College in 1973.

Career

The name Geri Larkin is a pen name. When she left she sold her material possessions and bought a brick duplex in downtown Detroit which, with the help of local residents she cleaned up and turned into Still Point. Larkin"s articulation of the concept of "right livelihood" was highly influential on Ann Perrault and Jackie Victor, two of her students who founded Avalon International Breads in Detroit in 1997.

She has been a longtime columnist for Spirituality & Health magazine.

She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.

Works

PDF: The Chocolate Cake Sutra: Ingredients for a Sweet Life

PDF: Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life

PDF: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment

PDF: Close to the Ground: Reflections on the Seven Factors of Enlightenment

PDF: Building a Business the Buddhist Way

PDF: Tap Dancing in Zen

PDF: The Still Point Dhammapada

PDF: First You Shave Your Head

Geri Larkin by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/explorations/teachers/view/74/geri-larkin

Geri Larkin had a successful career as a management consultant. After a doctor suggested meditation as a means of helping with an ailment, she underwent a spiritual transformation. Her new understanding of the power of prayer brought her to quit her job and enroll in Chicago's Maitreya Buddhist Seminary. Her teacher was Ven. Samu Sunim, a Korean Zen master who started several temples in North America. She was ordained three years later in 1995. She served as a Dharma teacher at one of the temples Ven. Samu Sunim started in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Larkin later started a Zen meditation center in the heart of inner-city Detroit called Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple. She has written numerous books. She now lives in Eugene, Oregon.

 

 

 

삼우 스님 Samu sunim (1941-2022)
aka Sam-woo Kim; 김삼우 Gim Samu; 삼우 스님 Samu seunim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_(sunim)
https://www.zenbuddhisttemple.org/history
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2008/09/zen-master-samu-sunim.html
https://studyres.com/doc/7882185/newsletter---zen-buddhist-temple
https://www.zenbuddhisttemple.org/archives

 

 

http://www.beopbo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=311493
https://m.cafe.daum.net/mobuddhism/EIRH/25?q=D_4gI5L5EgFJI0&

 

PDF: Moon Journeying Through Clouds: Zen Buddhist Chants, Sayings and Recitations
from the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom
www.ZenBuddhistTemple.org (2019)