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	Podcast:		Upaya Zen Center
	Episode:		Fushin James Bristol: Way Seeking Mind: Hidden Influences on our Journey to this Moment
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:37:58
	Publish Date:		2019-11-04 06:00:07
	Description:		Fushin James Bristol gives a talk on his path to Zen Buddhism. He begins with his secular childhood and traces a story through his desire to be a Roman Catholic priest and then to his meeting with Roshi Joan Halifax in the late 1990s. With his introduction to Zen Buddhism, he begins to ask what the self is. “What is authentically you and what does it mean to forget yourself? How do your answers to these questions guide you in this journey we call life?” These questions inform his path and lead to a life of vow. Fushin James Bristol Fushin James Bristol first sat zazen in 1993 and met Roshi Joan at Upaya in 1998. He has traveled to Nepal with Roshi Joan and was ordained a priest by her in the winter of 2018. Fushin has a... More
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