Gerry Shishin Wick interview

Gerry Shishin Wick is a Zen priest in the White Plum Asanga, a Dharma heir of the late Taizan Maezumi-Roshi. He is President and Spiritual Teacher of Great Mountain Zen Center located in Lafayette, Colorado and is currently President of the White Plum Asanga (the lineage of Maezumi-Roshi’s Dharma heirs). Before this he was an administrator for the Zen Center of Los Angeles and the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values for several years. Wick holds a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley and has held a variety of secular positions as a journalist, university professor, software developer, and oceanographer. Until 2007 he was Director of electronic publishing for Merriam-Webster. Wick is currently an adjunct professor at Naropa University and he has authored several books, including The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans (Wisdom, 2006). I’d like to thank Shishin for participating.

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