An Evening with Zen teacher
Michael Mugaku Zimmerman
Friday, August 24
7:00 – 9:00 pm
This evening is a free, public talk and also the first session of a weekend retreat.
If you are attending this evening independent of the weekend retreat, please drop in. As is the Buddhist custom, it is freely offered and we will collect voluntary, anonymous contributions in gratitude and support of the teachings.
Please arrive by 6:50 and remember not to wear fragrances or scented products. Thank you!
If you would like to join the weekend retreat or read more information, please click here to go to the retreat listing.
About Michael Zimmerman
Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Sensei, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943. He moved to Arizona as a teenager, where he finished high school and began college. Moving to Utah, he graduated from the University of Utah and then attended its law school. Following graduation, he moved to Washington, D.C., for a judicial clerkship, then to Los Angeles, where he worked for a large law firm in Los Angeles until 1976, when he returned to Utah to teach law briefly. He served as part-time special counsel to the Governor, had a litigation law practice, and served as a Justice and then Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. In 2000, he returned to the practice of law as a partner in a multi-state firm. In 2011, he started Utah’s first appellate boutique, the law firm of Zimmerman Jones Booher LLC.
Mugaku Sensei came to Zen relatively late. He first ventured into meditation in 1993 as a way to find some grounding during his first wife’s year-long struggle with terminal cancer. Shortly thereafter, he met Diane Hamilton, now Musho Sensei, through their working together for the Utah courts. At her suggestion, he attended an introductory class at Kanzeon in early 1997. Soon after, he began to study with Genpo Roshi. He and Diane were married by Genpo Roshi in 1998, the year he received Jukai. They received Tokudo and became monks together in 2003, were joint Shushos during the Spring Ango in 2005, received Denkai in early 2006, and he received Dharma Transmission in December 2006, seven months after Diane. Together they have four children and Ali, the Wonder Dog.
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