Cultural Inroads/Polish couple seek peace through Zen - Daily Yomiuri On-Line

Interesting article:

Nyogen Nowak rises before dawn and starts every day with Zen meditation and sutra chanting. He has kept up this routine for more than 30 years. But if not for a gift from his mother on his 15th birthday, the 48-year-old Pole would never have had the life of a Zen monk in Japan.

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