Karen Maezen Miller
Karen Maezen Miller is a wife, mother, and a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, California. She is also a speaker, retreat leader and author, writing about spirituality in everyday life. Her most recent book is Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden (New World Library, May 2014), and she has also written Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life (New World Library, 2010) and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood (Shambhala, 2006). As well, her writing is included in several anthologies. Karen Maezen Miller lives with her husband and daughter in Sierra Madre, California.
When author and Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family found themselves living in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she slowly unearthed gifts of wisdom and truth while learning to care for the paradise in her own backyard. Continue reading →