Speaker:   Kyoku Barbara Lutz

Dharma Talk Topic: Crack the Wall - The Texts of the Zen master Kaikyo Roby

Bio: Kyoku Barbara Lutz has been the Dharma successor of Vice-Abbess Hoko Karnegis in the Sawaki-Uchiyama-Okumura tradition (Sanshinji, Bloomington, Indiana, USA) since 2020 after her teacher Kaikyo Roby died after a serious illness. The first ordination took place in 2010 by L. Tenryu Tenbreul, Berlin / Schönböken in the Sawaki-Deshimaru tradition.

She spent two practice angos in Japan (Aichi Senmon Nisodo, Nagoya, and Toshoji, Okayama) and one practice ango (shuso-hossen / hossenshiki ceremony) in 2019 in Ryumonji, Iowa, under the direction of Shoken Winecoff Roshi. She also received part of her overall training from Dai-en Bennage Roshi at Mt. Equity Zendo, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kyoku translates Buddhist texts from American into German (e.g. Life through Vows, Shohaku Okumura, Werner Kristkeitz Verlag 2018).

As a doctor of education, system. As a family therapist and physiotherapist with an additional qualification in Bobath Therapy and Vinyasa Yoga, Kyoku B. Lutz has worked in a wide variety of areas, both employed in large clinics and practices as well as independently. She graduated from the Ev. Hanover University of Applied Sciences part-time the two-year training course "Psychosocial qualification to support the critically ill and dying with special consideration of HIV / AIDS" (Prof. Dr. Carla Rosendahl).

She is familiar with accompanying sick children and adults with limited life expectancy and their relatives and relatives, in the areas of early intervention, HIV / AIDS and working with young prisoners as well as advising multicultural partnerships of all sexual orientation.
Kyoku is the honorary director of the foundation Spektra - Talent and Disability, which is dedicated to promoting very talented children and young adolescents who live with physical and / or sensory disabilities. She is married and has two kids..