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Talk · Naropa University · 2020The Lived Experience as the Gateway to Freedom
49 min
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An evening lecture at Naropa on race, gender and the body as the door to practice rather than an obstacle to it.

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Meet Zenju Earthlyn Manuel.

Zen · ritual and lineage

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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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