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January 19th, 2026 – “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” – by Shokan Clement Spring and Malia McCarthy

Talk given on Monday, January 19th, 2026 – Shokan Clement Spring and Malia McCarthy (17 MB, 53 min).

Shokan Clement Spring

Other Sangha Leaders

Shokan Clement Spring is in his second rotation at Head Doan for Valley Streams Zen. He received Jukai (lay precepts) with Rev. Myō Lahey in 2010 and Shukke Tokudo (priest ordination) with Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer in 2023. Preparatory to ordination, he completed two practice periods at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center and he has recently returned from his first post-ordination practice period, again at Green Gulch Farm.
Malia McCarthy

Malia McCarthy

Board of Directors

Malia is a member of the Valley Streams Board of Directors and serves as secretary.  She recently retired from the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry.  She has two daughters in college and lives in Davis with her husband.  She feels very fortunate to have been able to practice with Valley Streams since 2019

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January 20th, 2025 – “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Commemorating Dr. King calls for Inquiry” – Dharma talk by Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah

Dharma Talk given on Monday, January 20th, 2025 by Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah (17.7 MB, 73 min).

Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah

Rev. Parāvṛtti Doralee Grindler Katonah

Practice Committee, Teachers

Serves as Ino,  or head of the meditation hall. She studies in the Soto Zen lineage with Sojun Diane Martin, founder and guiding teacher of Udumbara Zen Center in Illinois and Rev. Val Szymanski, Head Priest of Bamboo in the Wind Zen Sangha in California. She was lay ordained in 2008 and priest ordained in 2019. She served as head student for the Spring practice period at Bamboo in the Wind Zen Sangha this May 2022. She offers Practice Interviews upon request.
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January 30th, 2023 – “Keizan Zenji” – Dharma Talk by Rev. Taiga Ito

Dharma Talk given on Monday, January 30th, 2023 –  Rev. Taiga Ito (8.66 MB, 37 min).

Rev. Taiga Ito

Rev. Taiga Ito

Visiting Teacher

Rev. Taiga Ito, trained at Daihonzan Sojiji, one of the head monasteries of Soto Shu (Soto Zen in Japan). In 2016, Taiga Ito became Kokusaifukyoshi (international teacher of Soto Shu). He served as secretary of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center between 2016 and 2018, and has served as its Assistant Director since 2019.
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February 21, 2022 – “Honoring Jakujo Gary McNabb” – Dharma Talk by Rev. So On Jim Hare

Dharma Talk given by Rev. So On Jim Hare on Monday, February 21, 2022 – (8.8MB, 37 min).

Rev. So’on Jim Hare

Rev. So'on Jim Hare

Board of Directors, Practice Committee, Teachers

Serves as Tanto, or head of practice. He lived in the San Francisco Zen Center community from 1980 to 1984, was lay ordained by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1985, and priest ordained by Myo Lahey in 2016. He served as Head Student at Green Gulch Farm during the spring 2002 practice period.