Dance with the Dawn

Rev. Eric Daishin McCabe is a priest in the Soto Zen School of Buddhism in Japan. He graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA, where he studied ecology and world religions. While in college, Daishin developed an interest in Indigenous lifeways and met his Soto Zen teacher, Patricia Dai-En Bennage Roshi, with whom he apprenticed for 15 years. Daishin trained at several Soto Zen monasteries in Japan and in France with the Ven.Thich Nhat Hanh. His later training was in spiritual direction and chaplaincy. Daishin is currently located in Ames, Iowa where he and his wife, also a Soto Zen priest, founded Zen Fields (see https://zenfields.org). Daishin wears many hats: He teaches at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha; offers Trauma Sensitive Yoga for mental health; lectures on World Religions, and works as a chaplain in a local medical center. He is a husband and father to two children. Examples of Daishin's calligraphy and Zen art are available on the Zen Fields website.