John Garrie

John Garrie

John Garrie, later known as John Garrie Roshi, was a British actor who later became a respected teacher of Zen Buddhism. Born in 1924, he died in Taunton, Somerset on 22 September 1999 at the age of 75.

Acting career

As an actor, John Garrie played [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0308334/ John Garrie ] ] minor roles in a number of British television shows during the 1960s and 1970s, including The Avengers, Z-Cars and UFO. In the episode of Danger Man entitled "Koroshi", he played the role of an "Old Japanese Man" which foreshadows his later career as a teacher of Zen.

Meditation teacher

John Garrie Roshi's teaching drew on several traditions including Zen, Theravadan, Tibetan Buddhism as well as Taoism and martial arts. He described the mindfulness practice he taught as "Sati", drawing heavily from concepts within Theravadan Buddhist Satipatthana training. He founded the Sati Society which was generally based in the West Country.

John Garrie Roshi wrote a blessing entitled "Peace to all Beings" [ [http://soniamoriceau.org/_PeaceToAllBeings.htm Peace to all beings ] ] , which was used to introduce and to end meditations. It is still widely used by former and [http://www.saticentre.org present students of Sati] .

Published works

Many of the talks he gave during Satipatthana 'Workshops' were taped and these recordings are available. [ [http://www.haracombe.talktalk.net/index_files/Page810.htm Sati Fellowship ] ] A collection of his writings was published in 1998 under the title "The Way is Without Flaw", which is soon to be published in PDF format.

References

External links

* [http://soniamoriceau.org/_Sonia.htm A brief tribute] from former student Sonia Moriceau
* [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/phrakhem/nloct98/index.html An obituary] by Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo
* [http://www.haracombe.com Haracombe Sati Centre]


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