Tim Ryan / What is Zen? / Sylvia Boorstein
Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan on his platform, which strongly encourages the adoption of mindfulness as national policy. Koun Franz, Zen priest and deputy editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, talks about what Zen is—and isn’t. Buddhist teacher and author Sylvia Boorstein tells a folk tale about a terrifying samurai, and the abbot who would not flee.
