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Interview · Zubin · 2025See Your Nature and Be Free
101 min
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A conversation on years of monastic training in Japan and on what a Zen monk does with ordinary life afterwards.

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Zen monk trained at Bukkoku-ji under Tangen Harada Roshi, now teaching one to one outside any institution.

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