Fuck pain, fuck heartbreak. I'm still in love with life. From the Multicultural headquarters of the future capital of the pre-thinking state of America

known as Los Angeles, this is the Drunken-Daoist Podcast. Thank you're Donneigh's podcast.

Tonight! It's interview time again as we chat with Scott Mangus, a former US Marine who is now a practicing Zen monk in Japan in a wide-ranging conversation, including the nature of free will, becoming a spiritual tourist, attachment versus love, the tussle over ego,

neuroplasticity, hollow sink,

and the ever-present notion that someone has to be last.

It's going to get trivia. tribute.

And now, asking you all to spread the words that corporations are not persons.

I'm Rich Evers.

And my partner in crime, savage philosopher and middle figure of the gods

Danieli Valle as we invite you to lower the lights batten down the hatches and

prepare to open your mind for the Drunken-Dao's podcast begins now.

Welcome back everybody episode 108 of the Drunken-Dao's podcast.

Another great interview today a fun

interesting interview with a brand new point of view from our friend Scott

Mangus who happens to be a Zen monk who spent the first twenty-few years of his life as a U.S. Marine.

That's quite not exactly your typical journey, so we shall explore that.

Exactly. But first, we'll say hello to our fantastic friends that make all this possible.

Oh yes, Mr. Chris O'Dell from Datsusara with the coolest hemp gear on earth.

I still have to get one email from anybody who has both their stuff saying their stuff

sucks.

Everybody's loved it.

Anytime I've had anybody who say, look, I loved it, but I had a minor problem with Chris

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