SOSHIN MARY LAHEEN
Soshin Mary Laheen Roshi is our resident teacher at Earth+Sky Zen. She is an authorised Zen teacher in the Maezumi lineage and member of the White Plum Asanga. She received dharma transmission from her teacher Jinsen Robert Kennedy Roshi in 2019 at a ceremony in Dublin, to teach and transmit the Dharma of the Buddha. In 2025 she was made a Roshi by Jinsen.
Mary began practicing zen in the mid 1990s with Alain Tainan Liebmann, a zen teacher in the Deshimaru lineage, who came to Ireland in 1991. She took Jukai in 1998 and received Shukke Tokudo ordination from Alain in 2003. From that time she was the person responsible for the Dublin Dojo, which was founded by Alain in 1996.
She lived at Gotanjoji temple in Takefu, Fukui, Japan in the Autumn of 2008 and received Shukke Tokudo in the Sotoshu tradition from Kōshū Itabashi Zenji there in September of that year.
News - Upcoming Events
Stillness at Samhain: Non-residential Sesshin Friday eve Oct. 30 - Sunday eve Nov. 1
29 Sep 2026The ancient festival of Samhain from which our contemporary Hallowe’en comes, occurred during the period from sunset on October 31st to sunset on November 1st. It marked the beginning of winter and the transition to a new year.
At Earth+Sky we will mark the occasion with a sesshin, beginning on Friday evening with zazen at 7:30pm and ending with a Ceremony for the Dead on Sunday evening. See poster and timetable here.
Send us an email if you would like to join: zen.in.ireland@gmail.com
Dawn Sitting Monday through Friday this week, Sept. 28th - Oct. 2nd 6:30am - 7:10am followed by Morning Ceremony
27 Sep 2026All welcome.
The link is the same: Meeting ID: 835 5345 4120 Passcode: watermoon
* ‘I walked among stones*
through mountains of mountains
paying no mind
Until the flower-trail behind
turned into drifting white clouds’
Asukai Masatsune (1179 - 1221)
Dawn Sitting at Earth+Sky Zen Sept. 22nd - Sept. 25th
19 Sep 2026This week the dawn sitting is from 6:30am - 7:10am followed by the morning ceremony, Tuesday through Friday, online and in-person. All welcome.
Meeting ID: 835 5345 4120
Passcode: watermoon
Dawn sitting at Earth+Sky, Monday, Sept. 14th through Thursday, Sept. 17th
13 Sep 2026This week’s dawn sitting at Earth+Sky will be from 6:00am until 6:40am followed by the Morning Ceremony; online and in person, Monday, Sept.14th through Thursday, Sept. 17th.
Zoom Meeting ID: 835 5345 4120
Passcode: watermoon
Autumnal Equinox Zazen Day September 20
02 Sep 2026The Zazen day is an opportunity for the practice of equilibrium and balance, both physical and mental. It will be a day of sitting meditation, walking meditation, and some samu/meitheal around the preparation and serving of breakfast and lunch. There will be a dharma talk and discussion. All are welcome. Participants may come for part of the day, if the full day is not feasible for you. The suggested donation is €35, but no one should stay for lack of funds. Please register by email before Sept. 15th.