Spiritual Stories of the East (Volume 2)

Volume 2, Track 4 In Los Angeles, there is a fine zendo, a place where Zen is practiced, usually under a Master in Midtown near Adams Avenue. For a while, it had its own [...]

Volume 2, Track 6 I once asked the remarkable karma yogi known as Swami Krishnananda, whom I had surprisingly heard referred to as Saint Krishnananda in Gujarat, India, whether he had ever seen a [...]

Volume 2, Track 5 My good friend Professor Huang was one of the first to bring T’ai Chi Ch’uan here to America, long before some of the more publicized teachers. On Saturday afternoons in [...]

Volume 2, Track 3 One time, I was traveling through the province of Utter Pradesh in India, driven in an old car by a yogi who was very strict in his rules of brahmacharya. [...]

Volume 2, Track 2 Living with a fine Indian family in Baroda, India, on a colorful street known as Racecourse Road, I saw a wide variety of life pass beneath my window, which had [...]

Volume 2, Track 1 Many years ago, my good friend the Zen writer Paul Reps dropped me a card suggesting I go to New York from Los Angeles and meet Ramamurti Mishra, the teacher [...]

Volume 2, Track 6 When the 13th century Zen Master and founder of Soto Zen in Japan, Dogen Zenji, took a dipper full of water from the river, he poured half of it back [...]