TRAVEL DIARY: DHARMATRACKS Across AMERICA WEST (7/28-8/31) & OAKLAND RETREAT (8/9-12)

[Mp]

I too will be sitting along side all you dudes and dudettes. =)

Gassho
Shingen

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[Jundo]

Live from New Mexico, we had a 90 Minute Zazenkai featuring a special surprise guest ... direct from the Big Lebowski ...

But because of technical difficulties, only a brief "hello" and a portion of the second sitting recorded (about 20 minutes with no ending bell). But please join us as much as you can, and please look about 15 minutes in to see the magnificent scenery surrounding his place. Lovely, like a western painting ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjd0XNPZkvQ

Gassho, J

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[Zenmei]

Live from New Mexico, we had a 90 Minute Zazenkai featuring a special surprise guest ... direct from the Big Lebowski ...

Maybe time for some koan study:

http://zenpeacemakers.org/bernie-and-the-dude/

Gassho, Zenmei (sat)

[Seishin]

We have been sitting at Ansan's house various times, so please join us in heart with this picture (pretty much the same as "live action" Zazen really )

We may actually netcast a bit of our Zazenkai tonight, Arizona time (schedule to be determined), if Ansan's internet will take the load.


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Gassho, Jundo

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Ansan

Thank for sharing you wonderful house with us. Like others I'm finding it difficult to keep up with this whirlwind tour. I'll sit with the Arizona Zazenkai, regardless of the brevity. I've a cousin who live's in Phoenix but that seems light years from your desert dwelling.

STMIZ / lah

[Ansan]

Ansan

Thank for sharing you wonderful house with us. Like others I'm finding it difficult to keep up with this whirlwind tour. I'll sit with the Arizona Zazenkai, regardless of the brevity. I've a cousin who live's in Phoenix but that seems light years from your desert dwelling.

STMIZ / lah

Yes, it does seem like a whirlwind...and I can't imagine how Jundo does it!
Phoenix is a huge sprawling city connecting multiple burbs. After the outskirts, the flat desert surrounds it, but we might someday get swallowed up by the developments.

Gassho,
Ansan
SatToday/LAH

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[Meitou]

Live from New Mexico, we had a 90 Minute Zazenkai featuring a special surprise guest ... direct from the Big Lebowski ...

But because of technical difficulties, only a brief "hello" and a portion of the second sitting recorded (about 20 minutes with no ending bell). But please join us as much as you can, and please look about 15 minutes in to see the magnificent scenery surrounding his place. Lovely, like a western painting ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjd0XNPZkvQ

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

I sat with this recording this morning, brief but intense as they say and I was really interested to hear about Doshin being a lizard wrangler. I've come to love lizards since I've lived here in Sardinia and have to constantly battle with my youngest cat for their precious lives. Thank you Doshin for allowing me to sit in your lovely house in a state that I always wanted to visit - and now I have.

Gassho
Frankie

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[Ansan]

Live from New Mexico, we had a 90 Minute Zazenkai featuring a special surprise guest ... direct from the Big Lebowski ...

But because of technical difficulties, only a brief "hello" and a portion of the second sitting recorded (about 20 minutes with no ending bell). But please join us as much as you can, and please look about 15 minutes in to see the magnificent scenery surrounding his place. Lovely, like a western painting ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjd0XNPZkvQ

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAH

Doshin

Thank you for sharing your beautiful home with the gorgeous environment as well as some of your captivating history. Could you share the name of your book on lizards? Some of our favorites out here are the Desert Iguana and Horny Toad along with many others I have yet to identify. Gassho to both you & Jundo.

Ansan
SatToday/LAH

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[Jinyo]

Thank you Ansan and Doshin and thank you Jundo for sharing this amazing road trip with us.

Gassho,

Willow

ST

[Jakuden]

Yay Doshin!! Thank you!! As a Bio major before I went to Vet school, I also had and have a love of all things herpetological, which I think I instilled in my girls as well. So I enjoy your facebook posts very much. In fact, I can't even adequately express my respect and admiration for your lifelong dedication to ecology, preservation, herpetology... we need so many more folks like you. If I ever get to visit New Mexico, can I come get a tour??

Gassho,
Jakuden
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[Jundo]

Please join us from 7:30 (starting half hour later than the schedule) pm Mountain Time for a Zazenkai with Jishin and Doshin ...

07:00-07:40 PM Entrance by Officiant (Jundo) & Zazen.
07:40-07:50 Kinhin
07:50-08:20 Zazen + Short Talk
08:20-08:30 Kinhin
08:30-09:05 Zazen + Metta Verse
09:05-09:50 "Long" Service. (Please follow along in the Chant Book for Retreat "Long Service" PDF LINK).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-6nyl9aY8

Gassho, Jundo

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[Doshin]

Shingen, we open new hangout on Ranyds account

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/4crswtfffzbrrpntitctytgxwme

Sent you invite

[Jakuden]

Sat with you guys for awhile, now have to go to bed--work tomorrow. Thanks to all! Travel safely!!
Gassho
Jakuden
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[Mp]

That was lovely folks ... thank you for letting me be a part of it. =)

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday/LAH

[Shokai]

Thank you Jundo, Shingen, Dosshin and Jishin;
Great to see amd sit with you all. And, don't you think Jundo looks good aS A BLONDE
hAVE A WONDERFUL session with Daiho to morrow\\

say good night Dick
gassho, Shokai

sat?LAH

[Jundo]

Hi Guys,

I would like to thank Doshin for his fine oral guidance to the history flora and fauna of this area, and Jishin for his hours and hours of driving to get here and take us all around. We visited the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument ...

Often described as the “most beautiful” of the pre-Columbian ruins in New Mexico (not a small feat when one considers the abundance of ruins in New Mexico), these cliff dwellings are truly off the beaten path. Nestled in a scenic side canyon in the Southwestern part of the state that’s more noted for the later Apache occupation and Geronimo fame, these ruins provide solitude and beauty in equal amounts. Who built these ruins? For years, mostly nomadic tribes used these naturally formed caves on the Gila River for shelter. A relatively small family group, sometime around the 1200s, decided to make this a permanent home. Sadly for them, this lasted only for about a generation before they abandoned the area. For us, however, the desert climes, coupled with the shelter from the elements in the caves, have kept the ruins remarkably preserved. While occupied, these ruins housed roughly a dozen family groups of the modern-day classified Mogollon People. Considered to be on the northernmost boundary of the civilization, the park is home to a couple prominent ruin sites. In these canyons, with a scenic river flowing through them, the Mogollon hunted, planted their crops, raised families and enjoyed the shelter the caves provided

A little Zazen with the Mogollon people ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0Jz8Yx4ak&feature=youtu.be

But Doshin's big excitement was his finding a few crevice spiny lizards!



Tomorrow, off to see Daiho with Jishin,

Gassho, Jundo

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