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Hey, Robert ... you've been in the peacemaker program for just over a month now. How's it going?
Thanks Ari. Tell me about your internship? I'm really curious about that.
Hi Derek
I did get accepted into the program and I head for Maezumi Institute in October. It's inspired me to finish writing my novel before I go ... gotta get that off my list of things to do before I can ride into the sunrise (East( on my bhodis...
Thanks for you encouragement, Seiho. Each day my committment to follow through on this adventure deepens. In Roshi Enkyo's dharma talk for week two of the big sit, she asks, "What is hidden in your life?"
At first I looked for some dark aspect of ...
So Robert, I gather you are in the June cohort. I applied for the October session since I've got so many workshops scheduled in August (one in July) and I just had the back hoe tear up my back yard ... (I'm afraid I didn't try to save the worms.) ...
Hey, my partner and I just talked and she says "Go for it." Looks like I'll be applying for the October residency. Four months away from home .... my teeth are chattering. Who am I without my garden?
I've contacted Roshi Paul Genki Kahn and we are arranging a telephone call. Have you done so as well, Derek?
Invitation to Ordination
My heart started pounding
my breathing got bumpy
this is exactly what I need.
then I balked like an ox.
I can be away for that long;
who would tend my garden?
I'm in a marriage. I have a life.
Oh sigh, not this again.
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- At 3:48am on July 16, 2009,
Dr.Gamini Fonseka JP said… - Hi Kuya
welcome please visit my page or www.lakhanda.com and click sadahaama handa for more information about me and my buddhist programs
- At 12:43pm on May 13, 2009,
Robert Van Kirk said…
- Most definitely. :0)
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Lay Zen Monk, given dharma transmission outside the lineage by Natalie Goldberg, 2006. Resident teacher at Creston, BC's ZenWords Zen Centre.
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I Enso – Empty Circle
I awaken at 5:00 am. A deer grazes in the field by the corn patch, another one stands outside the 12-foot fence smelling raspberries, squash and beans. A raven cuts through the air leaving no trace of thought or feeling, no trace of I know, I want, I don’t know, I wonder, I wish, I believe, I don’t believe.
My breath vibrates the temple bell. The sun breaks over the Selkirks, rolls down the west hills and chases the fog across Kootenay Lake. No thought. Mu - emptines… Continue
I awaken at 5:00 am. A deer grazes in the field by the corn patch, another one stands outside the 12-foot fence smelling raspberries, squash and beans. A raven cuts through the air leaving no trace of thought or feeling, no trace of I know, I want, I don’t know, I wonder, I wish, I believe, I don’t believe.
My breath vibrates the temple bell. The sun breaks over the Selkirks, rolls down the west hills and chases the fog across Kootenay Lake. No thought. Mu - emptines… Continue
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