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Roshi Paul Genki Kahn

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Roshi Paul Genki Kahn is President and Vice-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers. The Mother House and administrative headquarters are in Montague, MA, www.zenpeacemakers.org. He has been selected by Roshi Bernie Glassman to succeed him as Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemakers after a four-year transition period, January 2013.

Genki currently focuses his efforts on directing theZen House Seminary for Socially Engaged Buddhism, and developing Zen Houses a new form of residential Dharma center where Seminary Program graduates run social service projects for underserved people and communities.In addition, he is Executive Director of the Zen Peacemakers Sangha, an international network of over 60 centers world-wide affiliated with the Zen Peacemakers. He also leads the efforts to develop the Maezumi Institute which is the training and study center of the Zen Peacemakers.

He is also Spiritual Director of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community in Wyckoff, NJ, which is led by Head Teachers Sensei Bill Jikai Greenberg and Sensei Ann Ankai Wagner.

Over the past 25 years, Genki has designed and administered public and private mental health programs for disadvantaged people in New York and New Jersey. All of these programs have included yoga and meditation. He has served on state and county mental health committees. He pioneered quality treatment for persons with severe and persistent mentally illness who also had drug and alcohol addictions. During the crack wars in the South Bronx in the early '90s, he created the MICA Program at Fordham Tremont Community Mental Health Center, that today still treats over 100 people daily.

Genki began dedicated yoga and meditation practice in the 1960s. In 1970 he entered residential Zen training with Aitken Roshi in Hawaii. He transferred to the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1972 to become a monk and priest under Maezumi Roshi, served as his personal attendant, and was the Director of Training there. In 1980 he came to New York with Roshi Bernie to establish what has become the Greyston Mandala. He received Final Vows as a Priest from Roshi Dennis Genpo Merzel. He is a Dharma Successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman.