Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy is an author, a transmitted teacher in the White Plum lineage, and the director of the Sage Institute Meditation Leader Training Program in Taos, New Mexico. murphyzen.com

Magazine | Ancestors

Tea on the Dead Sea

Soen Nakagawa Roshi (1907-1984) figured greatly in the transmission of Zen to the West. In the wild antics of this late teacher, Sean Murphy finds wisdom and a mischievous heart

By Sean Murphy

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