Zen teacher Nancy Mujo Baker to lecture March 19

"Zen and the Art of Teaching and Learning" is the title of a talk to be given at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 19, by Nancy Mujo Baker. Free and open to the public, the event will be in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. The talk has been rescheduled from a previously announced February date. 

A member of the philosophy faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, Baker is a scholar of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She plans to write a book on "Wittgenstein and Zen."

Baker is a Zen teacher in the White Plum Asanga. She is a Dharma heir of Bernard Glassman and founded the No Traces Zendo in New York City in 1996. She began Zen meditation in 1979 with Nakajima Sensei, a Soto priest.

Baker is a native of Chicago who earned degrees at Wellesley College and Brandeis University. She joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence in 1974 and completed her last year of full-time teaching in 2011. She has said that Zen influenced her academic teaching and that her academic teaching influenced her Zen teaching, particularly when it comes to small group work.

She has also studied the Diamond Approach for 15 years. The work of A.H. Almaas, the Diamond Approach has taught her a great deal about actualizing the Way, and experiencing the unique flavor of the five Buddha families.

Baker's visit to Skidmore is sponsored by the offices of the Dean of the Faculty and Religious and Spiritual Life.