ARobin Orden

“Just this: living our lives and practicing in the world.” ARobin Orden marks a 1988 retreat with Yvonne Rand and Bill Sterling on Right Speech in Daily Life as her gateway into Zen practice and has studied and worked with Norman Fischer since the early 1990s, including Company Time workshops and Jewish-Buddhist retreats. She lived at Green Gulch Farm and completed three practice periods at Tassajara Zen Monastery, the last in winter 2019 when she received Dharma Transmission from Norman. ARobin has been Tenzo for Everyday Zen sesshins and can be found in the Tassajara kitchen during work periods and for other events. Her career included educator in professional art and design, nonprofit manager for performing arts organizations, assistant to the mayor and senior management analyst in public service, where her daily practice was work in City Hall.