Wendy Dainin Lau, MD, is an Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine physician and an ordained Zen priest that serves the Upaya Zen Center sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dainin is also the author of Inner Practice of Medicine, which compiles the lessons that she has been gathering throughout her time as a doctor and teacher of doctors. For more information about Dainin and the Upaya Zen Center, please see the following link: https://www.upaya.org/

We discuss Shuso Hossen-Shiki ceremonies, the learning and healing exchange occurring while treating Roshi Joan Halifax's recent injury, Upaya’s Nomads Clinic and the experience of pilgrimage in Nepal, humbling yourself to meet people where they are in their spiritual journeys, treating physician burnout, literally chopping wood and carrying water, and how her rescue dog highlights the liberating qualities of nature.