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Kellie Schorr has not only written for The Tattooed Buddha since 2018, she has been publishing as a ghost writer for the romantic suspense genre for several years penning commissioned novels.

She is a Buddhist yogi in the Tibetan tradition and worked as a prevention specialist in the field of HIV and AIDS. She said she has always been a writer. She talks about her journey as a professional writer and how it can take many, many submissions to get published. We also talk about how she found The Tattooed Buddha and began writing for us here.

Kellie recently published her own book, A Space Between Breaths, which is a Buddhist mystery story. See the review for her book here, and purchase the book here or here. See her first post from The Tattooed Buddha here.

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Today we had a long term friend and former TTB board member, Daniel Scharpenburg on our podcast!

Daniel has written a lot for The Tattooed Buddha as well as many other Buddhist magazines. He has worked for the IRS for 16 years now and he became a Union Steward in 2018 and during the COVID pandemic in 2020 he was elected as the first Vice President of his union.

He has really enjoyed being a leader and activist during this time and is taking those leadership skills as first Vice President to also be an activist for social liberation. Daniel has been a Buddhist and meditation teacher for years and is active member and Dharma Facilitator of the Rime Buddhist Center & Institute of Tibetan Studies.

We discuss the Buddhist role in politics, what role Buddhists can, and has historically played, and how to peacefully and effectively take part in protests.

"Right now it's like this, what can I do?" is one of Daniel's favorite Buddhist slogans.

See Daniel's Substack here. See Daniel's books here. See Daniel's writing on TTB here, and on Patheos here.

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*Podcast edited by Brad Parsons at Train Sound Studio, www.trainsoundstudio.com

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Do Not Try to Become a Buddha is a collection of short essays, Irish Soto Zen priest Myozan Ian Kilroy describes how he came to practice Zen, introduces some basics of Zen philosophy, and recalls the challenges of establishing a Zen Buddhist community in Catholic-dominated Ireland.

A former journalist, Rev. Myozan’s clear yet entertaining storytelling style paints a clear picture of how Zen has adapted to the culture and traditions of Ireland. Rev. Myozan describes how he came to practice Zen, introduces the basics of Zen philosophy, and recalls the challenges of establishing a Zen Buddhist community in Catholic-dominated Ireland. He also explores the rituals and practices that Zen brings to everyday life, from holidays to weddings to birth ceremonies to funerals.

Dana and Claire Parsons, Tattooed Buddha columnist and blogger at Brilliant Legal Mind, sit down and chat with Rev. Myozan about rituals and teachings, his history of working as a journalist, his current job for the last 16 years at the school of media at the Technological University Dublin. He has represented Buddhism on national radio and television, in advisory panels for the Taoiseach (Ireland’s prime minister), and in the National Day of Commemoration in Ireland, which remembers all Irish people who have died in past wars.

We talk about the current state in global politics and how Zen fits into that, and into every day life.

Podcast editor: Hallie Gornall

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