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Ed Sattizahn

After meeting Suzuki Roshi in 1970, Ed Sattizahn lived at Tassajara from 1973 to 1977. He spent the next five years at City Center, serving as Zen Center's Vice President and President. From 1983 to 2000 Ed held various executive positions in the microcomputer software industry and developed familiarity with how the world works. In 2003, he was Shuso at Green Gulch Farm and in the same year co-founded Vimala Sangha in Mill Valley with Lew Richmond. Vimala Sangha is named after Vimalakirti, the famous householder disciple of the Buddha, and is dedicated to the practice of householder Zen in the tradition of Suzuki Roshi. Ed teaches at Vimala Sangha and in 2005 received Lay Teacher Entrustment from Lew Richmond. He is currently Chairman of the Zen Center Board and lives in Mill Valley with his wife Max.

“Suzuki Roshi, in bringing us his practice and in establishing San Francisco Zen Center, gave us a great gift. I would consider it a great privilege to serve Zen Center in its effort to realize his dream for Buddhism in America. I have had a life-long love of Suzuki Roshi’s way. I appreciate Zen Center’s deep responsibility to maintain his way and make it available to the world. For thirty-seven years I have practiced either as a resident of Zen Center, a layman working in the world, or a teacher in a sangha within Suzuki Roshi’s lineage. If elected I would apply my best judgment with an open heart and mind to the challenges and opportunities facing Zen Center. Zen Center has given me much and I would be pleased to serve another term on the Board of Directors.”