Shozan Jack Haubner: When Your Sanghas Sex Scandal Goes Viral

Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 7:46 p.m.

Shozan Jack Haubner, the pen name of a Zen monk, went to the monastery in search of wisdom\u2014and left with a sex scandal. Haubner joins Tricycle\u2019s executive editor Emma Varvaloucas in this podcast to discuss how writing helps him unravel the \u201cbig things\u201d in life; the patterns of behavior commonly seen in communities where sexual abuse occurs between teacher and student; and his advice for any group that has a problem that\u2019s been driven underground. \u201cIt\u2019s alive,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u2019s calling for you to deal with it.\u201d