My Guest is Dr. Grace Schireson, Ph.D.  Grace has been a practising psychologist for many years in Berkeley, California.  Devoted to awakening and to Zen Buddhism, she went to Japan to study under a Zen Master.  We discuss life in a monastery and the crossroads created by being smacked every two hours on the shoulders with sticks.  Curiosity led her to ancient manuscripts hitherto untranslated, which tell of many women from the past who had achieved mastery in Zen Buddhism.  In her book, Zen Women:  Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens and Macho Masters, we discover a hidden world where the principle of the divine feminine is revealed.  Today, Grace heads the Empty Nest Zen Retreat in Modesto.  This is a  "zen-like" informal dialogue, with a positive energy sprinkled with humor.