Format: Audio (mp3 and m4b audiobook included)
Running time: 2 hours 56 minutes

In this provocative and exhilarating dialogue, Jun Po Roshi and Ken Wilber take an in-depth look at Keith Martin-Smith's new book: A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi. For most of us, we would need to reincarnate at least 50 times in order to attain such an incredible volume of experience. But for whatever reason, it seems that Jun Po went a slightly different route, and chose to live all 50 of those lives at once. Here is his remarkable story--a riveting tale of enlightenment, debauchery, and infinite jest.

Jun Po Kelly Roshi's story is truly remarkable, and when coupled with his radiant personality and wily sense of humor, would no doubt make for a wildly entertaining and enriching Hollywood blockbuster. Even more intriguing, his story echoes a narrative even greater than his own (as all truly great stories do)--it is hard to think of anyone who better personifies the remarkable progression of American spirituality from the 1960's until today, standing as he does with one foot firmly planted in the sixties counterculture, and the other in today's Integral renaissance. Pushing the essence of the Rinzai Zen tradition through the Integral framework, Jun Po is reinterpreting and reformatting ancient wisdom for today's world while retaining the fierce intensity and urgency of his Samurai precursors. He is sitting in the heart of the integral impulse, reconciling the ceaseless throb of evolution with the empty clarity behind this and every moment--the gentle but explosive sound of an unstoppable force meeting an unmovable subject.

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