{"id":4603,"date":"2012-02-05T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T22:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2012-02-05T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T23:52:00","slug":"all-that-expensive-zen-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/02\/all-that-expensive-zen-training.html","title":{"rendered":"All That Expensive Zen Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>One of my favorite <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Dharma<\/a> bums (and I know many Dharma bums\u2026) is David Chadwick, Zen priest and biographer of the renowned Shunryu Suzuki. I visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cuke.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his website<\/a> with some regularity. This is what I picked up today\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VChk2bUKbuE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Dharma bums (and I know many Dharma bums\u2026) is David Chadwick, Zen priest and biographer of the renowned Shunryu Suzuki. I visit his website with some regularity. 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