Tim Ryan / What is Zen? / Sylvia Boorstein

Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan on his platform, which strongly encourages the adoption of mindfulness as national policy.

Koun Franz, Zen priest and deputy editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, talks about what Zen is—and isn’t.

Buddhist teacher and author Sylvia Boorstein tells a folk tale about a terrifying samurai, and the abbot who would not flee.