The Book of Householder Koans by Eve Myonen Marko

Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao is the Abbot Emeritus (1999-2019) of the Zen Center of Los Angeles (ZCLA), having succeeded the late Roshi Bernie Glassman as the third Abbot in 1999. She currently serves as ZCLA's head teacher and head priest. She ordained as a Zen priest in 1983 and trained with her root teacher, Venerable Taizan Maezumi at ZCLA until his death in 1995. She became a Dharma Successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman in 1996 in Yonkers, NY, and is a founding teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, which promotes spiritually-based social action. Roshi is the co-editor with Roshi Eve Myonen Marko of Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi (Shambhala 2000), and co-editor with Sensei John Daishin Buksbazen of the newly published editions by Wisdom Publications of On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind (2002) and The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment (2007).