Philip Whalen approached his first intensive sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center’s Tassajara practice center with trepidation. But the experience eventually reminded him of being back in the army. “It took me several training periods to see that they weren’t trying to kill you. All you had to do was follow the schedule and you wouldn’t have to argue with anybody, not even yourself.”
The Third Step East: 88-91; 81, 82, 83, 85, 92
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