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Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Immediacy of Mystery in Zen Buddhism

When we try to reduce these traditions to believe, it actually distances people from the immediacy of life. Zen was a movement that emerged in China about a thousand or more years after the Buddha. And so our meditations in Korea were, you know, for three months, twice a year, we would just sit in a darkened room and ask ourselves, what is this? And rest with that question, nothing else.

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