 In the late 1950s she found work as a chemist, though by 1968 she began questioning the direction of her life.She and her husband began sitting zazen regularly at the Berkeley Zen Center in Berkeley, California in 1969, and in 1972 the two entered Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.The couple lived at all of the other San Francisco Zen Center sites, including City Center and Green Gulch Farm.