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$\"\"$ <\/a>My contribution to Buddhadharma: The Practitioner\u2019s Quarterly<\/em>, Spring 2014, is now out and available. Click here for a bit of a tease.<\/a> And subscribe if you\u2019d like the whole piece. There\u2019s also an interesting looking piece on the teacher-student relationship and with Koun Franz now involved with Buddhadharma<\/em>, I\u2019m expecting some really good things from this journal.<\/p>\n

By the way, my \u201cbalanced view\u201d about cybersanghas is creating a bit of a stir in our Vine of Obstacles: Online Support for Zen Training community. Some practitioners think I was too negative.<\/p>\n

We are having an awfully good time together.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"