You Are Not Required To Be Pure
You Are Not Required to Be Pure
Someone looked across a table recently and said: I thought you were supposed to be some kind of guru or something.
That sentence is the whole of this episode.
There is a picture of what a spiritually serious person looks like. Measured. Elevated. Careful with language. Free from the coarser textures of ordinary life. Brad Warner is a Zen priest who plays in punk bands. Noah Levine teaches Buddhist dharma and built a recovery community rooted in punk culture. Both have spent careers fielding the same raised eyebrow. The picture follows people across traditions…
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