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EPISODE 49 The Father of Martial Arts: Jigoro Kano (Part 1)

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Zen - A Zen Story About Tanzan Hara

Among his professors was Zen Priest named Tanzan Hara who taught Indian philosophy. He tells a tale of when Tanzan was an novice and along with a friend of his, Akido. They were travelling on foot from one monastery to another. On one side they saw a beautiful woman who was stuck unable to cross because she would basically sink knee deep into the mud. And so Tanzan asked if she needed help; he promptly put her on his shoulders and carried her across the road. But later that day  Akido got mad saying, how dare you? You'd know it's prohibited for us Buddhist monks to touch women,. And Tanzan replied, are you still carrying the girl

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