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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
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Training
Lotuses
Sitting
Lotus
Taking
Posture
Whatever
Session
Kind
Traditions
Japanese
Buddhist
Tradition

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