Filippo Dibari
Author Biography:
Filippo Dibari is a nutritionist working with severe malnutrition in countries affected by famines, AIDS, wars or poverty. In 1992 he discovered meditation in Burundi, where he faced the irreconcilable contradictions of being a young European student in such a context. Since 1997 until 2009, he practiced Zen meditation (Soto school) in the challenging contexts where he worked (Amazon jungle, Africa and Asia), but mostly without a Sangha. Since 2009, he joined the Sangha of Roland Yuno Rech and received the Bodhisattva ordination. He aims to start a Zen dojo in Nairobi, Kenya, where he lives. Anybody living or visiting Kenya is welcome to practice together.

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The dojo of Morogoro
Africa. Is it possible to make a Soto Zen sangha flourish in a small rural town in Eastern Africa? Apparently, it is. This article describes the dojo of Morogoro town, in rural Tanzania, but also explores my feelings of amazement when I visited it. For years, I have asked myself how to reconcile the need to attend the sangha back home, in Europe, with my deep passion to work in developing countries as a humanitarian nutritionist.
In February this year, during a sesshin in Spain, I asked my Zen Master Roland Yuno: “…I have lived for [...]

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