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In Memoriam: Daigan Lueck, 1931-2015

Posted by on Jun 12, 2015 in Blog | Comments Off on In Memoriam: Daigan Lueck, 1931-2015

Let Daigans Be Daigans Daigan and his partner Arlene at Tassajara, summer 1995 In May of 1995, I was perched nervously on a chair at the yurt in Tassajara, a Zen Buddhist monastery deep in the mid-coast California mountains, waiting for an evening talk to begin, trying to draw keep my spine straight and look stern yet serene, as I imagined real Zen students to be. A newly arrived resident at Zen Center and at Tassajara, one question was uppermost in my mind: Am I doing it right? Of course, other questions were waiting in the hold as well, questions that had led me to leave my home and reside...

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