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Monkey See, Monkey-Do

In 1931, two psychologists, Winthrop and Luella Kellogg, began an experiment to see if a chimpanzee could learn human behavior by raising it with their own baby. The idea was

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The Energy

Maezumi Roshi beaming among his closest Dharma heirs, who radiate such gratitude back at him, each in their way.

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30 Years Ago Today

The exact moment of my ordination, September 7, 1992, at the Temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. In this gesture, the Teacher brushes some water on

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Everything is Only TV

I returned to our home temple, Hwa Gye Sah, in the mountains of Seoul after completing a second 100-day solo retreat in the Jiri Sahn Mountains, in the winter of

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