DOSHO PORT teaches at the Nebraska Zen Center in Omaha, and with the Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training. He has been practicing Zen since 1977, received dharma transmission in Soto Zen from Dainin Katagiri Roshi in 1989, and in 2015 received inka shomei (literally, document of succession) from James Myoun Ford Roshi in the Aitken-Tarrant line of the Harada-Yasutani-Yamada lineage. Port is the author of Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri, and he has translated three foundational koan texts from traditional Chinese for use with students: No Gate Barrier, Blue Cliff Record, and Record of Going Easy.