Mary Mocine offers the talk “Going to the Mountains Is Going Home” to the Dharma Seminar on October 14, 2026. A colleague of Norman Fischer and disciple of Sojun Mel Weitsman, Mary is the founding teacher and retired abbot of Vallejo Zen Center.
In her talk, Mary refers to the “The Mountain Spirit,” from Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder.
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