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About Me
- James Ford
- I'm a Unitarian Universalist minister, currently serving as senior minister of the First Unitarian Church of Providence, Rhode Island. I'm also a long time Zen practitioner ordained as a Soto Zen priest and one of the guiding teachers for the Boundless Way Zen project, currently serving as school abbot. I'm married to Jan Seymour-Ford, research librarian at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA. We round out our family with my auntie, Julia Bernard, and two cats. The responsibility for all that is written here, as Jason Goodwin says in the acknowledgments to one of his novels, including "errors, deviations, and flagrant misrepresentations are mine alone." He, of course, has the excuse of being a novelist. The upshot is that opinions expressed here probably do not, and certainly should not be assumed to represent the views of any organization to which I belong.
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A Gift of Dharma for 11.10.097 hours ago
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Desire for Annihilation12 hours ago
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More Ranting About "Cyber Sanghas"13 hours ago
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Even More (Pagan) News of Note18 hours ago
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Ajahn Jayasaro on precepts and meditation21 hours ago
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New Interview with Eshu Martin1 day ago
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Rising Together2 days ago
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Coupon4 days ago
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The Dude rides again… sort of4 days ago
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It's dark outside5 days ago
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Zen Master Seung Sahn6 days ago
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Happy Parents and a Little Son2 weeks ago
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The Theme2 weeks ago
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All in a Muddle4 weeks ago
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PEACEBANG Closed For a Season1 month ago
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Brilliant Naughty1 month ago
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This Life And Not Another1 month ago
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Compassion for oneself2 months ago
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Wittgenstein and Madhyamaka5 months ago
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