An American Buddhist with Peter Coyote

New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast · Dec 8, 2021 · 52m

Peter Coyote is an accomplished actor in more than 130 films, an Emmy Award-winning narrator of over 200 documentaries and 17 audiobooks, and author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet Buddha, and a book of poetry titled Tongue of a Crow. Here he shares his observations from over 45 years of conducting acting improvisation workships with practitioners of Zen Buddhism. He points out that wearing masks almost inevitably has the temporary effect of liberating individuals from their ego-bound consciousness. He likens this experience, in some…