I’ll get right to the point here – if you buy one Zen book this year, this would be my strong recommendation. Harada Tangen Rōshi (1924-2018) was one of the few truly great Zen masters that I’ve met. Meeting Roshi-sama, as he is called by his students, and training with him at Bukkokuji, changed my life and practice in profound ways that still reverberate today, thirty years later.

I hadn’t yet met Tangen Harada Roshi, but had heard of him through a chance encounter with an old Zen friend on the plane from the US to Japan and Zuioji. One of the things this friend told me was that Roshi-sama had literally saved his life.
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