Joseph W Hall is a resident priest at the Austin Zen Center. He received the precepts (jukai) from Blanche Hartman in 2008 and completed priest ordination (Shukke Tokudo) with his teacher, Kosho, in 2010. He attends Shogaku Zen Seminary as part of the Shogaku Priest Ongoing Training program. His energy is enthusiastically focused on the nexus between Lay Practice and the Monastic world and he is fascinated the ways in which we interpret the world and the means by which physical motion trains the mind. He wakes up in the morning excited to witness the ongoing birth of American Zen. His favorite words are Sublime, Exquisite, and Ravissant.