Bamford-Fetzer essay
July, 2012
... stone.” Tracing the Life of a Search John Fetzer and the Seeds of the Fetzer Institute (TJB: this is July, 2012) “As we ... something like an experience of enlightenment—or the seed of it—could also have occurred. Zen Buddhism calls such an read more...
Author: Christopher Bamford
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