Rev. José M. Tirado, Ed.D. is a Puertorican poet, Shin Buddhist priest, and political writer living in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, a town known for its elves, “hidden people,” and lava fields. He has practiced Buddhism for almost fifty years across Zen, Vajrayana, and Jodo Shinshu. He teaches at the University of Iceland’s School of Education, where he also leads the Buddhist Meditation Study Group. His work has appeared in Lion’s Roar, Buddhistdoor Global, CounterPunch, The Galway Review, Dissident Voice, and others.
Rev. José M. Tirado
Recent Articles
A Bigger Umbrella
Rev. José M. Tirado on working with the spiritual longing “for the complete thing, the practice that would hold all of me, the teacher who would see everything I was bringing and say: yes, this too belongs.”
Moving Beyond Subjectivity to Awakening
According to Shin Buddhist priest Rev. José M. Tirado, we must transcend our regular subjective-objective perspective in order to awaken and see things as they truly are.