Ira Progoff | The Sun Magazine

Ira Progoff

Ira Progoff is director of the Intensive Journal Program at its Dialogue House headquarters in New York City.

— From January 1988
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Anxious Wrestler

A Zen Story Of Psychotherapy

Nothing remained in the temple — except the mighty ocean rising and falling, and surging onward in its cycles. This was the sole reality. The temple itself disappeared. There was only the ocean, and the wrestler himself was the ocean.

January 1988
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