About Two Streams Zen

Two Streams Zen grew out of the living relationship between co-founders and guiding teachers Catherine Anraku Hondorp and Ryūmon Hilda Baldoquín. Their experiences of friendship, love, commitment, joy, differences, struggle, conflict, humiliation, passion, laughter, and COMPLETE confidence that the Buddha’s realization can be experienced as our own, continuously fuels the trajectory of Two Streams Zen.

Two Streams Zen speaks to, and embodies, the coming together of the two principal Japanese Soto Zen lineages in North America. The two streams manifest in two temples functioning together: Body-Mind temple (ShinJinJi: lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Koan practice) and Peaceful Dragon temple (AnRyuJi: lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and the practice of Shikantaza).

The resources present in the creation of Two Streams Zen provide the guidance and sustenance for the difficult, essential and rewarding work of responding intimately, fearlessly, skillfully and compassionately to the call for real change in this world of perceived differences.