The Guardian for this meeting was Santoshima Resident. The comments are by Santoshima Resident.

Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".

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Santoshima Resident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=BJsvklXhYaE#

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Santoshima Resident: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/ar...t-85.html?_r=0

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Santoshima Resident: anecdotal quote #1:
" Q: And enlightenment?

A: My view is that there can't be personal enlightenment. It only happens within the experience of relatedness, like Indra's Net, a net with jewels at every node reflecting every other jewel.

Q: How can we bear witness to the lacerating effects of treachery, betrayal, abandonment, so much a part of out ordinary world.

A: How can we not? "

— Rosh Joan Halifax, answering questions from student(s)

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Santoshima Resident: anecdotal quote #2:
Santoshima Resident: 'Once I [a student] asked Suzuki Roshi, "What is Nirvana?"
He replied: "Seeing one thing through to the end." '

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Santoshima Resident: one more ...
Santoshima Resident: ' How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.' — Carl Sagan

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Santoshima Resident: ~ peace and love ~