PETER LEVITT is the guiding teacher of the Salt Spring Zen Circle community in British Columbia, and he is the author of ten books of poetry, including Within Within, One Hundred Butterflies, and Bright Root, Dark Root. He is also the author of Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom, cotranslator and editor (with Kazuaki Tanahashi) of A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter and The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master, and the editor of Thich Nhat Hanh's classic The Heart of Understanding. In 1989, Levitt received the prestigious Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry.

REBECCA NIE is a transmitted Chinese American Zen master of the Jogye Order, scholar, and award-winning algorithm and new media artist. Born and raised in China, she came of age in Canada and the United States, and now she serves as the Buddhist Chaplain-Affiliate at Stanford University. Ms. Nie is also the founding abbot of M.V. Seon Sanctuary, dedicated to unleashing humanity's full potential through artistic expressions and offering systematic training in Eastern wisdom-spiritual traditions.