Todd Robinson

Todd Robinson has more than thirty years of meditation experience and concentrates his efforts on the personal nature of meditation. His goal is to present the meditative experience eliminating the religious and cultural baggage it has obtained over the years.

He got his start meditating in the mid 1980s practicing transcendental and other meditations before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1989.

Because the Marine Corps had trouble identifying and treating soldiers with PTSD during the 1990's, Todd went AWOL to deal with the severe symptoms he developed while serving as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Specialist. during the Gulf War.

While absent from the Marine Corps, Todd moved to Thailand and eventually ordained as Thai Forrest Tradition Buddhist Monk in Maha Sarakham, Thailand. As his PTSD symptoms declined and his meditation proficiency rose, he was taken to several of the foremost meditation masters in Thailand for additional training.

When he was no longer experiencing the symptoms of PTSD, he returned to the Marine Corps and become the first Buddhist Monk to serve within any of the U.S. Armed Service Chaplain Corps. While serving with the U.S. Navy Chaplains in Okinawa, Japan, he finished his contract with the US Marine Corps and studied Rinzai Zen in his spare time.

After fulfilling his military contract, Todd Robinson returned to the U.S. and helped form the Vipassana Towers Meditation Center in Denver, CO. before moving to Illinois and disrobing.