VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Rothko Chapel is delighted to bring a distinguished roster of outstanding intellectuals, poets, musicians, and journalists to speak and perform during its 2009-2010 season of public programs. All programs are free and open to the public. The Rothko Chapel presents A Life of Zen: Making Peace with the Commonplace: Karen Maezen Miller, Author and Zen Buddhist Priest.  Saturday, May 8 at the Rothko Chapel, 2 p.m.

Author and Zen Buddhist priest Karen Maezen Miller (pictured) will present a program centering on creating inner peace to manifest outer peace. Her program will include a wisdom talk and instruction in a short period of seated meditation.

Karen Maezen Miller is a sensei, or teacher, at the Hazy Moon Zen center in Los Angeles and a dharma holder in the Japanese Soto Zen lineage of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, one of the foremost Zen masters of the twentieth century. She is the author of two books: Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood and Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life.