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James Ishmael Ford is a Zen teacher and semi-retired Unitarian Universalist minister. He has dharma transmission from Houn Jiyu Kennett and Inka Shomei from John Nanryu Ji’un-ken Tarrant. He is the guiding teacher of the Empty Moon Sangha. For more about James: http://www.jamesishmaelford.com/