My name is Goshin. I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my wife and daughter and pets and work as a safety professional for industrial settings. I am a learning banjo player, enjoyer of adirondack chairs, history, and collector of unread books, and soon to be astrophotographer (as soon as I purchase the equipment!)

I am interested in ending white supremacy, male supremacy, and transphobia and how I can take responsibility for my own participation in those systems of oppression.

This blog is mainly about my practice in Soto Zen, Buddhism and spirituality generally. I took Jukai in 2014 and became a Lay Disciple to Genko Rainwater in 2020 – I am a member of Dharma Rain Zen Center. This blog is mainly to journal about my practice and various dharma related things I find interesting.

I discovered Zen when I was 16 in a small town in New Mexico where I am from and had some kind of relationship to it since, but becoming a serious practitioner around 2012. My way name (like a surname) is Koho (Solitary Mountain) and my given name is Goshin (To Know Truth). I am usually just called Goshin.

Any views expressed are strictly my own.

I wish to acknowledge and honor the Original Peoples of the land that I now call home—the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River.

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