Bon's Open Road
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Bon Soeng Highlight (1:00)
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Interview (6:27)
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Mainstream Society Was Empty (1:14)
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Helpful To Have A Mirror (1:44)
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Take Time To Learn How Your Mind Works (1:10)
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Life Isn't An Image (1:45)
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INTERVIEWED BY:
United States 2008
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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
San Francisco, CA
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AIRED ON:
Public Television: Season Five
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ON DVD:
BON SOENG
Zen Master
Empty Gate Zen Center
INTERESTS:
THEMES DISCUSSED:
Beliefs & Faith Education Exploration Family Focus Honesty Individualism Self-Reflection Simplicity Societal Pressures Values
TAGS:
Buddhism, carpentry, civil rights, civil rights movement, college, control, development, ideas vs reality, influences, mentor, mind, not knowing, psychology, religion, self discovery, society, thinking, vietnam, vietnam war, war
BIOGRAPHY:
At age fourteen, Bon Soeng had a realization that he was living a life that was someone else's idea. Growing up in a society greatly affected by the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement, Bon Soeng felt mainstream society was pretty empty and was drawn to eastern philosophy. Following college, he moved to a Zen Buddhist Community in Northern California and began practicing Zen in 1975. Hoping to bring Buddhism out of the Zen centers and into the regular world, he became a psychotherapist so he could work with people using Buddhist principles. He encourages people to take time to learn how their mind works.
