Jack Duffy Rōshi...
was given permission to teach by Robert Aitken Rōshi in January 1992 and was given independent teaching status and the title of Rōshi in the formal Transmission Ceremony 5 years later. Jack has been a student of Aitken Rōshi since 1981 and has studied with other teachers, including Joan Rieck and Thich Nhat Hanh. He brings his roles of spouse, father, and psychotherapist, as well as years of endangered species work and wilderness wanderings, to his teaching.