BG 072: Zen Masters: Dressing the Donkey with Bells and Scarves

Summary: Episode Description: Long-time American Zen practitioner Stuart Lachs has spent some 40 years practicing Zen. First with Suzuki Roshi at the Tassajara Monastery in California and then with Eido Shimano Roshi, Walter Nowick, and finally with Ch’an Master Sheng-yen. In all of these communities Stuart ran up against strange and unfortunate dynamics playing out between […] The post BG 072: Zen Masters: Dressing the Donkey with Bells and Scarves appeared first on Buddhist Geeks.