A conversation with meditation practitioner, mushroom maniac, and Golden Drum community member, Dan Kanda. I first met Dan in Tel Aviv, Israel at a meditation retreat in 2016 -- 4 years later we became roommates in Upstate New York. Dan has spent several years living in S.N Goenka style vipassana meditation centers and has traveled through India, Nepal, and Burma to pursue Buddhist dharma and practices of liberation. Dan discovered his passion for medicinal mushroom cultivation through vipassana and is currently supplying the Golden Drum and local area with epic Lion's Mane, Blue Oysters, and Shitake mushrooms on a weekly basis. Dan and I dropped in to talk about his path of meditation and and how the mushrooms planned it all...
