Ordinary for sure

I remember when Edward Brown edited Shunryu Suzuki lectures for Not Always So, that Bill Redican was distraught because Edward used the old version transcripts and not the verbatim versions that Bill and his crew had meticulously been creating.

Pickpocket Protection

Phil from Michigan is here with his wife Bonnie for three months. They travel a lot. He keeps a dummy wallet in a hip pants pocket.

Tardigrades - we don't have to save them

Read on at BBC

Happy Easter

Easter - day of rebirth, enlightenment and all that. Dig it.

For a more thorough look at it, check out Easter's Inner Significance from Teosophia

It's not Easter yet but the cuke staff has rebelled and demanded a day off which is Sunday in honor of the sun, proclaimed by Mr. Turner to be god just before he died, at least in the movie.

Buddhist Film Festival

program guide pdf


program online


tickets, times, box office info

Congratulations Gaetano Kazuo Maida

Visible and Invisible worlds

We live in a big invisible world. The visible world is not so big - big enough to be bothered by it. So, you know, to sit is to live in invisible big world. So sooner or later we may die, and we go to the same place when you sit. That is the place where you will go [laughs]. 

[Sit here = do zazen]

Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-C as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC 

Grimace and Pride Points

For the early morning hot water I squeeze the juice out of a lime and drop the squeezed semi-orb in the compost.

Happy Good Friday

Death of the Small Self Day - cuke version

And it's a public holiday here in Bali as is Easter. Lot of holidays here because of their religious inclusion. Everybody likes em. Three of four of Ben's employees at Anapurna are Christian and they were off yesterday - but not the cook - so he was alone last night serving and making drinks and Thursday night is one of the two big days there. Great blues too. Our laundry is sitting waiting at the travel office nearby cause it's run by two Christian brothers from Flores.

Rosicrucian take on Easter

Chapel Hill Zen Center

Suzuki Roshi in theSouth: Introducing Chapel Hill Zen Center

From the SFZC Sangha News Weekly


Good going to the founding teacher Josho Pat Phelan

Obstacle

Student: Isn't it true, Sensei, that any idea of the thought of enlightenment is an obstacle? 

SR: If there is some obstacle, it may be easy to take it away, but [laughs] actually there is no obstacle. The only obstacle which exists is the obstacle which doe not exist.

Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-30-C as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Edited by DC