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Roshi Paul Genki Kahn

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He is Spiritual Director of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community in Wyckoff, NJ.

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.