About Bonnie Myotai Treace

Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, served for many years as vice-abbess of Zen Mountain Monastery and abbess of the Zen Center of New York City. In 2004, she founded Hermitage Heart, a Zen training program with a special emphasis on home practice. She lives and teaches in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

3 Small Practices for Living in the Coronavirus Era

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| March 20, 2020

Bonnie Myotai Treace offers these three “small” reflections to help us stay open-hearted and connected as we reckon with the fear and uncertainty coronavirus has brought into our lives.

At Ground Zero

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| September 11, 2019

Zen teacher Bonnie Myotai Treace on a place where there are no answers.

Reflections on “Seven Wise Women in the Charnel Ground”

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| May 28, 2015

Bonnie Myotai Treace Enlightenment Impermanence Seven Wise Women in the Charnel Ground Zen

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Bonnie Myotai Treace on themes and of impermanence and enlightenment in the ninth century Chinese story, “Seven Wise Women in the Charnel Ground.”

Quite a Cup of Tea

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| May 5, 2013

Bonnie Myotai Treace reviews The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea, by William Scott Wilson.

The Wise Woman Who Talked Back to God

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| July 1, 2005

Bonnie Myotai Treace, John Daido Loori, student
(Photo: Nicholas Sugden)

The Ancient Buddhist tale of the Seven Wise Sisters has Zen Teacher Bonnie Myotai Treace thinking about the koan of gender.

We Cannot Stop the Hail, But We Can be Awake

by Bonnie Myotai Treace| May 1, 2004

On how the famed Buddhist poet and artist Rengetsu took up the tragedies in her life and transformed them, by Bonnie Myotai Treace.