Jan chozen bays biography of christopher

I was born in Chicago in , on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. My parents were pacifists during WWII (not a popular position), and they were very saddened by the bombing.

I was raised in a liberal Protestant church, and my mother believed that God was love. When I was a teen we spent two years living in Korea, where my father was teaching.

I remember climbing up a mountain in the dark to watch the dawn light touch the face of a Buddha in a cave. Maybe that’s why I’m a Buddhist priest, or maybe it’s because I used to sit as quietly as possible in the forest, so the forest animals would not know I was there, or maybe it’s because my first breath contained the dust and vows of all the Buddhist priests who were vaporized by the bomb.

I’ve practiced Zen since From to I lived at Zen Center of Los Angeles, studying with Taizan Maezumi Roshi and directing the Zen Center’s nonprofit medical clinic.

I finished formal koan study in and was giv Jan Chozen Bays - The Wisdom Experience KYTO