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There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.
Anne Waldman
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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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Millville
New Jersey
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