557: Teijo Munnich

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Teijo Munnich, Abbess of the Great Tree Zen Women's Temple and the person who introduced Duncan to Buddhism, re-joins the DTFH!

Check out the Great Tree Zen Women's Temple to learn more about them, and see their calendar of upcoming events.

Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg.

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0:00.0	Greetings friends! We have a very special podcast for you today. Today's guest is Dejo Munich.
0:06.4	She is the first person to really introduce me to Buddhism. When I was in college,
0:11.9	I did an internship at a Zen temple and it was her temple and it was amazing. She is an incredible
0:20.0	person. If you live in Asheville, check out the Great Tree Temple. If you don't live in Asheville,
0:26.2	I would highly recommend going to their website. You can find all those links at DuncanTrustle.com.
0:33.8	They have weekly meditations among other things and of course they do retreats there. So that's
0:41.1	Great Tree Temple in Asheville, North Carolina. Okay everybody, strap in. Here we go. Welcome back to the
0:50.3	DTFH Tejo Munich.
0:53.2	Welcome, welcome to the DTFH Tejo Munich.
1:01.4	Welcome, welcome to the DTFH Tejo Munich. Welcome to the DTFH Tejo Munich.
1:14.8	It's the DuncanTrustle.
1:20.1	One of my favorite moments in my, I hate to say this word, spiritual life.
1:26.2	My big moment for me happened when I was doing this internship at your Zen temple and
1:35.1	my preconceived notions about Buddhism were based, I think, mostly on movies and a fantasy that
1:43.9	I would meet someone like you and you would impart to me some kind of data that then I could use to,
1:55.1	I mean, I don't think I would have used these words back then but gain power or something, you know,
1:59.3	like I would become wise and I would become interesting. I would become more attractive maybe,
2:05.9	you know, like cool. He's a Buddhist. He met. So when I met you to start this internship,
2:13.3	the internship involved cleaning the floors of your temple, you had me clean and you taught me
2:24.4	away of cleaning floors that I've used throughout my entire life. You said this is the way that
2:30.2	clean floors in the temples in Japan, you explained to me that they have these rice, rice
2:38.0	walls that are very delicate. If you hit them too hard, you could break through them potentially.
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