{"id":666,"date":"2010-02-10T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/roshi-rubin-habito-on-the-fruits-of-zen-practice\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:07:21","slug":"roshi-rubin-habito-on-the-fruits-of-zen-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/roshi-rubin-habito-on-the-fruits-of-zen-practice.html","title":{"rendered":"Roshi Rubin Habito on the Fruits of Zen Practice"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruben_Habito\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ruben Habito<\/a>, a former Jesuit priest and now professor of world religions and spirituality at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, is a Zen master in the Sanbo Kyodan reform of the Soto Zen tradition.<\/p>\n<p>A good guy.<\/p>\n<p>And I think an important Zen teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a pretty good example of why I think this\u2026<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fruits of Zen Practice\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-LhjW3jY7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\u201cZen is an experience of unlimited love.\u201d<br>Ruben Habito<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Thank you, Glenda, for the pointer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7074723109987242079?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Habito, a former Jesuit priest and now professor of world religions and spirituality at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, is a Zen master in the Sanbo Kyodan reform of the Soto Zen tradition. 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