An hour and a half with Jon Joseph Roshi on fifty years of practice, on ritual, and on balancing darkness and light.
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Ordained Zen priest, born to parents who migrated from rural Louisiana, with fifty years of practice across several traditions. She is the author of The Way of Tenderness, Sanctuary, The Shamanic Bones of Zen and Opening to Darkness, and holds a master's degree from UCLA and a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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