Rochester Zen Center

He published in 1984 the collection of these Jatakas called The Hungry Tigress.

Rafe, we kind of all grew up together at the Rochester Zen Center.

He's a Dharma teacher now in Rochester.

He has his own place there.

We're up to, appropriately, Zen and failure.

which is based on a Dharma talk I originally gave at the Rochester Zen Center back in 1990.

This was later published in the Sun Magazine and reprinted in Progressions, Readings for Writers, which was published in 1998.

And I've left things pretty much as it was written then because I feel what was said there is still relevant.