A dharma talk at the Village Zendo on the question a newcomer asks and a long-time student keeps asking.
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Soto Zen priest and teacher in the White Plum lineage founded by Taizan Maezumi, and abbot of the Village Zendo in New York. She grew up between Tijuana and the United States, came to Zen through the Beat poets and D.T. Suzuki, and studied with John Daido Loori.
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