Sante Poromaa – "Consciousness is the Key".

Sante Poromaa was born in 1958 in Kiruna. In the beginning of the eighties he met the American born Zen master Philip Kapleau and became his student. After years of training Sante became ordained as a Zen priest in 1990, working within the Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet (Zen Buddhist Society). In 1998 he was appointed a Zen master. He is currently teaching Zen in Sweden, Finland and Scotland and is spiritual director of Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet together with his colleague and lifelong partner Kanja Odland.