Myo Denis Lahey interview

Myo Denis Lahey interview

Completed on July 28, 2009

Rev. Myo Denis Lahey (b. July 14, 1951) is a Soto Zen priest practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi. Myo is practice leader at Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco and at Iron Bell Zendo in Sacramento, California. A Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Soto Zen Buddhist Association of North America (SZBA) and is a member of the Association for Soto Zen Buddhism of Japan (ASZB). Raised in an observant Roman Catholic home, Myo was drawn to religion and spirituality at an early age and found Zen Buddhism in his teens. He began sitting in 1969 with Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi and befriended many San Francisco Zen Center practitioners and teachers, including Issan Dorsey.