User:Daishin David Sunseri

I am a Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest living in San Francisco, California, in the United States. I am in the Myoshin-ji Rinzai tradition of Kyoto, Japan. My home monastery/temple is Jishin-ji, also in Kyoto, Japan. I am currently living in a senior facility in San Francisco, and am supported by my generous family and some friends. I was born in 1944 at the end of World War II. My parents were Joseph and Lorraine (Cristina) Sunseri. I had a precarious start to life, but was nurtured and cared for by my mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother. From the beginning of my life I had a strong impulse toward spiritual life, spending time in a Roman Catholic seminary during the period of the Vatican Council. After leaving St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, I lived in Burlingame and San Jose for a time but eventually ended up in San Francisco during the revolutionary end of the 1960s, through the 1970s and into the 1980s.