Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applyin — Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applyin — Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applyin — Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applyin — Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applyin — Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
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Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren’t mine, are at least different from the norm.

— Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment
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