In Episode 2, Season 1 of the Shared Sacred Story podcast project, we visit with the Co-Leader of our Scholar-Practitioners Buddhist Team, Ruben Habito, to explore his experience throughout a life spent studying, demonstrating, and teaching Zen Buddhism.

Ruben studied in Japan under Zen master Yamada Koun Roshi and taught Sacred Theology at Sophia University in Tokyo. Currently, he is a Professor of World Religions and Spirituality at Perkins School of Theology and is the guiding teacher of the Maria Kannon Zen Center in Dallas.

In the conversation, Ruben shares deep insights from his Spiritual journey, one that started as a Jesuit and ended as a practitioner of Zen and a Buddhist scholar. He examines the Question of the Sacred, explores the “why” of things, and makes key differentiations between loneliness and solitude.