Margaret Ann Crowley, Anand Shakti
Just learned that Margaret Crowley died last April 21st in Lafayette, Colorado. She was born in Maryland in 1946.
Margaret came to Zen Center in 1968 as I recall. She practiced in the city and at Tassajara. She and my first wife Daya (back then Dianne) Goldshlag were best friends.
I see she has a page at The Natural Funeral.
Will seek photos and more on Margaret.
Gya te gya te - dc
[About inmost request.] Something—someone, I don’t know who it is, but someone tells us to do so. We hear that voice always, so I cannot help doing so because someone is telling me to do so or someone is telling me “please help me.” We cannot help doing so, not because “this is Buddhism” or “this is big patience,” not because of what Buddha said. It is an unconditional request for us. We have this kind of nature. If it is supreme teaching, absolute teaching, it is impossible to achieve. It is impossible to understand it. This is big patience, and this is not even a matter of big or small. It may be very small—sometimes it may be the smallest patience.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-28-D as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.