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Ep 44: Sonny Zaide of The Purple Cloud Center for Eastern Medicine Mar 07, 2018

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Sonny Zaide is a 23rd Generation Quanzhen Longmen (Qingcheng Shan) Taoist / Daoist Initiate and the owner of the Purple Cloud Center for Eastern Medicine. He is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Qigong and Qigong Healing.

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Ep 43: Dr. Peter Adamson and the History of Philosophy...Without Any Gaps! Mar 01, 2018

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Professor Peter Adamson holds a joint appointment with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and King's College London. His primary areas of interest are late ancient philosophy and Arabic philosophy. He is also the host of the History of Philosophy podcast.

Find his work at: https://historyofphilosophy.net/

Ep 42: Janica Anderson on the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki Feb 24, 2018

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Janica Towne Anderson (author of "Zen Odyssey)" is a master falconer and has been a student and teacher of esoteric traditions for fifty years. She has worked as a research assistant in the psychology department at Harvard University and served as an instructor at Esalen Institute. She founded Big Sur Tapes, which preserved and published audio archives from teachers such as Ram Dass, Buckminster Fuller, and Alduous Huxley.

Ep 41: Miguel Chen on "I Wanna Be Well," punk, meditation, and yoga Feb 20, 2018

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Miguel Chen is the bass player for long-running Fat Wreck Chords punk rock band Teenage Bottlerocket. He is the author of I Wanna Be Well, out 2/20/2018 on Wisdom Publications. He is a meditation practitioner, an RYT-500 yoga instructor, and the owner of Blossom Yoga Studio in Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming. In addition to appearing in countless Teenage Bottlerocket press pieces, Miguel has been featured by Lion's Roar, PunkNews, Full Contact Enlightenment, LionsRoar.com, Modern Vinyl, and more.

https://miguelchen.net/

Ep 40: Shozan Jack Haubner on the Writing and Monk Life Feb 17, 2018

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Shozan Jack Haubner is the pen name of a Zen monk whose essays have appeared in The Sun, Tricycle, Buddhadharma, and the New York Times, as well as in the Best Buddhist Writing series. His book Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk is the winner of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. His most recent book, "Single White Monk: Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not necessarily in that order) is out now from Shambhala Publishing.

Shozan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShozanJHaubner

Buy Shozan's book: Shozan Jack Haubner at Shambhala

Ep 39: Honest conversations about American Evangelicalism w/ Kevin Singer Feb 15, 2018

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Kevin Singer is co-host of the Neighborly Faith Podcast. After graduating from college at N. Illinois University, he planted (a term indicating the establishment of a new church) two churches with the Southern Baptist Convention while earning an M.A. in Theological Studies from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Kevin earned a second M.A. in theology from Wheaton College studying Christianity and Hinduism. Kevin is currently completing a PhD in Higher Education at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He serves as a graduate assistant for the IDEALS project.

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Ep 38: Fr. Robert Kennedy, Roshi, on the meeting place of the Jesuits and Zen Feb 10, 2018

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Robert Kennedy, S.J. is one of several practicing Catholic men and women who are recognized by the Buddhist community as zen teachers. He is a licensed psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of theology at St. Peter's University in Jersey City. As a Christian Fr. Kennedy has found meaning and deep reverence in the practice of zen. He is active in interfaith work, teaching zen to persons of all faiths, conducting retreats in the United States, Mexico, Ireland and England. He studied zen in Japan with the Japanese master Yamada Roshi. He continued his study under Maezumi Roshi in Los Angeles and Bernard Glassman Roshi in New York; in 1997 he received inka, the formal seal of approval, from Glassman Roshi and received the title Roshi, or Master. He holds doctorates in Theology from the University of Ottawa and from St. Paul University in Ottawa, a Masters in Theology from Sophia University in Tokyo, and a Doctor of Ministry in Psychology and Clinical Studies from Andover-Newton in Boston. He is a graduate of the Blanton-Peale Institute of Religion and Health in New York. Roshi Kennedy has written two books on Zen and Christianity: Zen Gifts to Christians and Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit. In 2017, Roshi Kennedy received two honorary doctorates, one from St. Peter's University, and one from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

His website is: www.kennedyzen.org

Ep 37: Yujiro Seki on Bushi sculpting, Filmmaking, and "Carving the Divine" Feb 06, 2018

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Born and raised in Japan, Yujiro Seki discovered his passion for film-making when he was in high school. Yujiro earned a BA Degree in Film from the University of California, Berkeley. His forthcoming documentary film, "Carving the Divine," offers a rare and intimate look into the life and artistic process of modern-day Būshi – practitioners of a 1400 year lineage of woodcarving that's at the beating heart of Japanese, Mahayana Buddhism.

Please visit www.carvingthedivine.com for more information. www.carvingthedivine.com

Ep 36: Guo Gu on Chan Buddhism and NYHC Feb 02, 2018

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Guo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center (www.tallahasseechan.com) and is also the guiding teacher for the Western Dharma Teachers Training course at the Chan Meditation Center in New York and the Dharma Drum Lineage. He is one of the late Master Sheng Yen's (1930–2009) senior and closest disciples, and assisted him in leading intensive retreats throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also a professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University, Tallahassee. In the 1980's, he played bass in Judge and Death Before Dishonor in the New York Hardcore scene.

See his writing at: https://www.lionsroar.com/author/guo-gu/

Ep 35: Linda Kohanov on Master Herders and Pastoral Social Roles Jan 28, 2018

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The author of The Five Roles of the Master Herder and the bestseller The Tao of Equus, Linda Kohanov speaks and teaches internationally. She established Eponaquest Worldwide to explore the healing potential of working with horses and offer programs on everything from emotional and social intelligence, leadership, stress reduction, and parenting to consensus building and mindfulness. Her main website is eponaquest.com. More information about The Five Roles of a Master Herder is available at masterherder.com.

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