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$\"Thoreau$ <\/a>
\nI was recently reminded of this. It\u2019s a video of me sometime in 2014 holding forth on various subjects, Buddhism<\/a>, Zen, Unitarian Universalism for the Buddhist<\/a> Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t invited me back.<\/p>\n

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