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Alan Lessik

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Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

Not-knowing is Most-intimate

There is a Chinese Zen kōan, a teaching story about a pilgrimage that I won’t share with you today. If Zen teachers were lawyers, Zen practitioners would be required to sign a release which states that whenever a teacher says they will not do something, it means the opposite, especially if they use words that …

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Posted on January 4, 2021January 3, 2021

Travels in Grief, Desire and Wonder

Recently, I rediscovered posts on Facebook about my travels seven months after my partner René Valdes died in February 2012. While I have preserved much of the immediacy of the record, I have used them to explore the universality of grief. desire and wonder that we feel daily in the pandemic. Oh, and that includes …

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