E. Raymond Rock

E. Raymond Rock is co-director of the Dhammabucha Rocksprings Meditation Retreat Sanctuary, co-author of Stumbling Across Buddha, Life, A Buddhist Fairy Tale, and author of A Year to Enlightenment.

His 40 years of meditation experience include two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote Northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk under Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Maha Boowa, and Ajahn Tui. He was also a postulant at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist monastery in northern California under Roshi Kennett, and a Theravada Buddhist anagarika at Amaravati Monastery in the UK and Bodhinyanarama Monastery in New Zealand, both under Ajahn Sumedho.

He practiced with Bhante Gunaratana at the Bhavana Society in West Virginia, the Korean Master Sueng Sahn Sunim, and the Tibetan Master Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder, Colorado. He has also practiced at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and the Zen Center in San Francisco.