{"id":12164,"date":"2023-08-07T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T16:13:09","slug":"throw-yourself-into-the-house-of-buddha-the-life-and-zen-teaching-of-tangen-harada-roshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2023\/08\/throw-yourself-into-the-house-of-buddha-the-life-and-zen-teaching-of-tangen-harada-roshi.html","title":{"rendered":"Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teaching of Tangen Harada Roshi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019ll get right to the point here \u2013 if you buy one Zen book this year, this<\/a> would be my strong recommendation. Harada Tangen R\u014dshi<\/a> (1924-2018) was one of the<\/em> few truly great Zen masters that I\u2019ve met. Meeting Roshi-sama, as he is called by his students, and training with him at Bukkokuji, changed my life and practice in profound ways that still reverberate today, thirty years later.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When my winding path intersected with Roshi-sama in the fall of 1990, I was a refugee from Zuioji, a very PMSO<\/a> monk-finishing school. Katagiri Roshi had insisted before he died that I go to Zuioji and stay there a month. A several hour argument hadn\u2019t dissuaded him. He thought that after a month I\u2019d see the virtue of Zuioji-style training and stick around for a few years. But after a month of ceremony practice and little zazen, I booked it out of Zuioji and headed to Bukkokuji.\n*
** *I hadn\u2019t yet met Tangen Harada Roshi, but had heard of him through a chance encounter with an old Zen friend on the plane from the US to Japan and Zuioji. One of the things this friend told me was that Roshi-sama had literally saved his life.<\/p>\n

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