Stefan will talk about suffering, the causes of suffering, and the path to liberation from suffering; the path that leads to a stable (even if dynamic) happiness-peace. I will address these issues from a point of view of non-sectarian Buddhism.

Dr. Stefan Sencerz, born in Warsaw, Poland, came to the United States to study philosophy and Zen Buddhism. He teaches philosophy, Western and Eastern, at the Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi.  He has numerous publications in professional philosophy journals (mostly in the areas of animal ethics and metaethics). He published also numerous refereed poems, short stories, and essays that appeared in literary journals. Stefan has been active on the spoken-word scene winning the slam-masters poetry slam in conjunction with the National Poetry Slam in Madison Wisconsin, in 2008, as well as several poetry slams in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Chicago.