Rev. Dōjin Brent Haas has been practicing with San Francisco Zen Center since 2003, with Meditation in Recovery as his Dharma gate. He has lived in residency at City Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for over 15 years. He took Jukai in 2013 and Priest Ordination in 2023, and has been living at Tassajara for the past year, where he served as Shusō for the 114th Autumn Ango last year.
During the early stages of the pandemic, Dōjin founded Rustbelt Zen in Northwest Ohio, bringing Zen beyond the Temple walls into neighborhoods, classrooms, and libraries. He has also taken Meditation in Recovery into rehabs, detoxes, jails, and to the streets to serve the houseless with street sitting.