Leonard Cohen: portrait of a zen monk
Through a well-documented and extensive article, our Sangha mate , journalist and writer Luis Landeira, publishes in Jot Down Magazine the experience of Leonard Cohen as a zen monk. After a musical tour that left him exhausted, in 1994 Leonard Cohen, practicing since the early 70's, decided to retire to the Mount Baldy Zen Center in Los Angeles, directed by Master Joshua Sasaki. For two years, the poet and composer participated as any other member of the Sangha, doing zazen and combining it with the samu: cutting vegetables, fixing the garden or cleaning…Read [+]