JACK DUFFY ROSHI was given permission to teach by Robert Aitken Rōshi in January 1992, followed by independent teaching status and the title of Rōshi in the formal Transmission Ceremony five years later. Jack became a student of Aitken Rōshi in 1981 and also has studied with 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.