About Us
Roshi Deirdre Eisho Peterson is the founder and resident teacher at the center. She is a long-time Zen practitioner and a dharma successor of Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara of the Village Zendo in New York City, with whom she trained for close to twenty years. Eisho was named a Dharma Holder and began formal teaching in 2013, and received dharma transmission in 2015. She was named “Roshi” or “senior teacher” in 2022.
The Red Rocks Zen Circle, a Zen meditation sangha in Sedona AZ, was founded in 2007. We are a Soto Zen practice center, in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga.
About Us
Roshi Deirdre Eisho Peterson is the founder and resident teacher at the center. She is a long-time Zen practitioner and a dharma successor of Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara of the Village Zendo in New York City, with whom she trained for close to twenty years. Eisho was named a Dharma Holder and began formal teaching in 2013, and received dharma transmission in 2015. She was named “Roshi” or “senior teacher” in 2022.
The Red Rocks Zen Circle was founded in 2007. We are a Soto Zen practice center, in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and the White Plum Asanga.
To study the Way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
~ Dogen Zenji ~
