The following article is now available on the SWET site:
Jiho Sargent was a technical writer and editor, proofreader, programming expert, and a SWET stalwart for more than two decades. She was also a Buddhist priest who served for a time at Taisoji near Sugamo station. Her health took a turn for the worse in 2006, however, and she decided to return to the United States to live with her daughter.
The following article, which appeared in the SWET Newsletter in September 2000, reveals Jiho as someone with an awesome résumé of accomplishments and a mind-boggling talent for learning how to learn. She described her life’s journey as “moving with the flow of worldly transience,” but friends and those she mentored will always remember that it was guided by a firm sense of purpose and generosity of spirit. She died in Eugene, Oregon, on June 17, 2009. The photograph accompanying this article was taken for Sargent’s book, 108 Answers: Asking About Zen (Weatherhill 2001).
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