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Experts On: Addiction and Enlightenment

ManTalks Podcast

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The Zen Experience of Awakening

As a teenager, I was reading basically Zen poetry. When I was 19 out of the blue, I happened to have a really quite strong revelatory sort of moment that really turned my world upside down because I had no idea what it was. But I knew I'd suddenly sort of discovered the truth of life or something, what it felt like. It just came out of nowhere. And probably if that hadn't happened, I might have been very skeptical of this kind of talk about awakening, enlightenment, something called original nature. Yeah. So why Zen for you? What drew you towards it? What was your experience? Because I think that that is kind of interesting based off of what I

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