MormonTimes.com: BYU students 'Zen Mormons' after retreat

Published: Monday, Dec. 1, 2008 12:09 a.m. MST
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PROVO — Zach Elison and Brandon Habermeyer consider themselves Zen Mormons. This blend of theology and philosophy stemmed from their experience at a two-week-long Buddhist retreat.

"They have things to teach us," Elison said. "Everything I love about Buddhism I find in my own religion, they just emphasize it differently."

Habermeyer and Elison, both philosophy majors studying at Brigham Young University, got a tip from a world-religions professor at school about the retreat. They spent two weeks in July under the towering Redwoods of Santa Cruz, Calif., learning and practicing some of the teachings of Buddhism.

Buddhists emphasize taking care of the body, the earth and others. They extract spiritual principles from every experience in life.

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