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<\/a>giving a talk in Bhutan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nA Robot\u2019s Dream: The Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\nThe latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\nJames Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n
(I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\nFord first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n(I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nA Robot\u2019s Dream: The Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\nThe latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\nJames Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n
(I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\nFord first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n(I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nA Robot\u2019s Dream: The Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\nThe latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\nJames Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n
(I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\nFord first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n(I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nA Robot\u2019s Dream: The Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\nThe latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\nJames Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n
(I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\nFord first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n(I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/h3>\nA Robot\u2019s Dream: The Zen Teacher Goes Ego Surfing<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\nThe latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\nJames Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n
(I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\nFord first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n(I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n
The latest in ego surfing is asking Chat AI for a bio sketch. A colleague just did it. Found out he was an Anglican priest, although he was pretty sure he\u2019d spent the past thirty years as an English Unitarian minister. And it had him as the author of a book he\u2019d never heard of. Otherwise it was mostly right. So, I did it, too. Used ChatGPT, which you can sign on to for free. I like mine, although it\u2019s only about seventy-five percent accurate: <\/em><\/p>\n James Ishmael Ford is an American Zen teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author. He was born on June 17, 1948, in Oakland, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended San Francisco State University, where he studied philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n (I was born in July. My father led us around the country, usually ahead of some problem or other. I was born in Oakland, and my High School years were in the Bay Area. In my thirties I attended Sonoma State University, where I earned a degree in psychology)<\/em><\/p>\n Ford first encountered Zen Buddhism<\/a> in the late 1960s while attending a lecture by Shunryu Suzuki, the founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. He began sitting zazen, or Zen meditation, and later became a student of Taizan Maezumi, the founder of the White Plum Asanga.<\/p>\n (I\u2019m a great admirer of Maezumi Roshi, but I became a student of Houn Jiyu Kennett, later founder of Shasta Abbey.)<\/em><\/p>\n