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Intensive Study with a Qualified Teacher Seven Thunders members have opportunities for long-term study and ongoing intensive study with our teachers. Residential training periods with our principal teacher, Fr. Patrick Hawk Roshi, are offered through Pathless Path at Picture Rocks Retreat in Tucson, Arizona. Intensive study can also be arranged with Pat Hawk's successor, Leonard Marcel Roshi.
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Fr.
Patrick Hawk Roshi, our principal teacher, has been leading
our Contemplative Intensive Retreats and Zen Sesshin since 1988.
Fr. Pat is a Redemptorist priest with degrees in philosophy, theology
and English literature. He is a qualified teacher of contemplation
and mysticism having completed these studies under the direction
and guidance of Fr. Willigis Jaeger, OSB. He has formally practiced
Zen since 1978 as a student of Robert Aitken, Roshi. Fr. Hawk received
Dharma transmission from Aitken Roshi and was confirmed as a Zen
Master in the Diamond Sangha lineage in 1989. For information on Pat's schedule see
his website, 
Leonard
Marcel Roshi received full Dharma Transmission from Pat Hawk
in October 2001. He has been leading sesshin in Europe for several
years, and has worked closely with Rolf Drosten Roshi as well as
Pat. He has studied both Zen and Christian Contemplation for more
than 20 years, and has been teaching since 1996. Leonard was
a founding member of Seven Thunders, and was largely responsible
for its inception in 1985. Leonard is a psychiatrist and a Jungian analyst. He worked in Saudi Arabia for a decade and returned to Portland, Oregon
in February of 2003. He has also trained for many years in aikido, iaido and tea ceremony.