Thank you Jundo. Living by Vow is one of the texts I've been reading daily, after morning zazen, for a 15-20 minute period, and then try to re-read the same section, again, midday.
It becomes the "thought of the day" or re-focus; instead of becoming an exercise of searching for intellectual, knowledge gathering.
Of course, it takes a long time to get through a book this way; short segments, day after day after day. And I've forgotten when I even started. If that ever mattered.
And thanks for the kindly advice about sesshin. It's my plan to do Jukai in 2013 and do the 2-day TreeLeaf sesshin.
Now that Salt Lake's Kanzeon Zen Center has been "dismantled" after the unfortunate Genpo Merzel issues and related organizational breakup, local sesshins aren't available, though
a couple of Genpo's dharma-heirs have started up a new center in southeastern Utah (beautiful red rock desert region near a national park) with a satellite center in SLC.
In gassho
Richard
It becomes the "thought of the day" or re-focus; instead of becoming an exercise of searching for intellectual, knowledge gathering.
Of course, it takes a long time to get through a book this way; short segments, day after day after day. And I've forgotten when I even started. If that ever mattered.
And thanks for the kindly advice about sesshin. It's my plan to do Jukai in 2013 and do the 2-day TreeLeaf sesshin.
Now that Salt Lake's Kanzeon Zen Center has been "dismantled" after the unfortunate Genpo Merzel issues and related organizational breakup, local sesshins aren't available, though
a couple of Genpo's dharma-heirs have started up a new center in southeastern Utah (beautiful red rock desert region near a national park) with a satellite center in SLC.
In gassho
Richard
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