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Becoming a Buddhist: Two renowned teachers, two stories of transformation

Life Examined

CHAPTER

The Power of Luck

I went off to India with a small group of friends I didn't know where to find a teacher and I wanted something really practical direct it wasn't that interested in the philosophy. Dan Gohman who at the time was a graduate student at Harvard was giving a talk at an international Hatha yoga conference. He mentioned he was on his way to this town called Bodhaya which is the town that's grown up around the descendant of the tree it said the buddha was sitting under when he became enlightened. The low point of which was one of these yogis and swamis were up on the stage pushing and shoving against each other to be the first to grab the mic

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