(Raises the Zen stick over her head and hits the table with the stick.) The 6th Patriarch said to Fada: If your mouth recites while your mind does not practice, then the Sutra “turns” you. If your mouth recites and your mind…

Alma Potter was born in Arizona and grew up in a family seeped in Mexican American traditions. She studied clinical nutrition, graduating from Arizona State University in 1976. In 1981 she traveled to India, where she furthered her study of…