Fifty-Five Years of Practice: Delusions & Discoveries Along the Way (Part One)

Zen Talks from the Windhorse Zen Community by Lawson Sachter

Jan 8, 202645:42Religion & Spirituality

2025 marked the fifty-fifth anniversary of when Sunya-roshi first met Roshi Philip Kapleau (then Sensei) and moved from Michigan to the Rochester Zen Center to practice. In this first of two special teisho, Sunya-roshi o...

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