The Lion’s Roar Podcast
Lion’s Roar Foundation
Meditations, interviews, dharma talks and features from Lion's Roar, a non-profit media organization offering Buddhist wisdom and advice for mindful living to create a more caring and just world.
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Sep 27, 2019 • 32min
Tim Ryan / What is Zen? / Sylvia Boorstein
Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan on his platform, which strongly encourages the adoption of mindfulness as national policy. Koun Franz, Zen priest and deputy editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, talks about what Zen is—and isn’t. Buddhist teacher and author Sylvia Boorstein tells a folk tale about a terrifying samurai, and the abbot who would not flee.
