Bio: Zen Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton) is the North American Abbot of the Kwan Um School of Zen, and a guiding teacher of the Cambridge and Providence Zen Centers. He received permission to teach from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1990 and transmission to be Zen Master in April 2000. He is recently retired from working as an executive in a family-run company. Zen Master Bon Haeng also founded and guides the Open Meadow Zen Group in Lexington, teaches accredited Zen classes at Boston University, and regularly leads retreats and gives teachings around the country. He will be going on a teaching tour of Europe in the summer of 2011.