Bill's interest in Zen Buddhism began when he was a teenager, drawn by the promise of experience deeper than the mundane, and the idea that one could influence his or her own mind. He started reading books on Buddhism, including Zen Mind Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and visited a variety of practice communities in the Minneapolis and Madison, WI areas. Bill found his way to MZMC in 2011 and began a daily meditation practice shortly thereafter. In 2013 he took the lay precepts, and in...