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Article: buddhist * christian * businessman peace within.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2008
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PORTSMOUTH
The view of Norfolk's skyline and the Elizabeth River is sensational from Maury Cooke's enclosed porch on Swimming Point Walk.
But most mornings find the former bank president indoors, facing a table of Buddhist deities and looking within.
In the predawn stillness, Cooke, 63, assumes the lotus position - "an old fart sitting in the middle of the floor," he says. With short, grizzled hair and light blue eyes, his lined face has kindred spirits in the photos of Buddhist monks around his shrine room.
Cooke, a businessman celebrated as Portsmouth's "First Citizen" in 1994, meditates two to three hours every morning after a short round of yoga.
He ...
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