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Xiankuan is a lay Dharma teacher at the Mid-America Buddhist Association Monastery (MABA) in Augusta, Missouri, USA. He began practicing meditation in 1969 under the guidance of his first teacher, Ho Kuang-chung. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also taught in the graduate school for 17 years. He has treated anxiety and depression since 1977 and has practiced cognitive behavioral therapy since 1981. He also gave seminars on CBT and Mindfulness in over 200 cities. He currently studies with Ven. Master Jiru and the Monastics at MABA. Xiankuan is the author of Volume 1 and 2 of Six Pathways to Happiness, and The Ten Stages of Trust, the first of five volumes on the fifty-two stages of the Bodhisattva.