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Category Archives: Work Projects
Fixed stuff and Taxes
There is always a lot to do at the beginning of the new year. In the office we have to fill out what seems like an endless amount of forms for various government bodies regarding a number of different taxes. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dodge, Tax, Tenzo, tractor, work practice, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Rain. New Carpet. More Rain.
Having basked in the warm, blue-skied Californian month of December for the past couple of weeks, it was clear that at some point it would get a bit more wintry. That has now happened. I drove in to Idyllwild this … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha Hall, samu, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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The Long and Rut-Filled Road
Roshi and I went down to visit our neighbors today, the Tylers, who own most of the land on the right hand side of the road as you are driving up to the Center. We had a simple request – … Continue reading
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Tagged Kubota, Tenshin Roshi, tractor, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Yokoji Zen Mountain Center: A Short Film
Apologies for a blatant lack of blogging over the past few days which have amounted to a length of time-elapsed better counted by weeks and parts thereof than the casual 24 hour period. So what is new in the mountains, … Continue reading
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Tagged Retreat, Roshi, samu, Sesshin, Tenshin Roshi, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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The First Snow of the Season
On Sunday morning, just as we were finishing the Rohatsu sesshin, and consequentially the Fall Training Period, the clouds that had been rolling through the valley for a few days prior, suddenly opened up and began to drop the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Snow, tractor, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Bats, Batteries and Broken Stuff
How do you know that winter is on its way, up here at Yokoji? Is it the drop in temperature, the frosty mornings and the blazing fires heating the rooms? Is it the days which get shorter and shorter, as … Continue reading
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Tagged work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Tractor Woe, Bird Woe
You know how you sometimes plan the whole week ahead, in a degree of detail that although not accounting for each hour per se, you can see clearly how everything that needs to be done can be fitted in to … Continue reading
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Tagged Kubota, samu, tractor, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Roshi Cross the Mersey
Tenshin Roshi left for England yesterday to lead a 6-day sesshin with the UK sangha. Every year Roshi goes out to Crosby, a small village near Liverpool, and leads the sesshin with Keizan Sensei, his successor. This is where I … Continue reading
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Tagged Crosby, Tenshin Roshi, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Thunder and Lightning
I am in the process of shooting a short video for the Center, something I can put on the website and various other places on the internet to show what life at the Center is like. A companion piece to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapman University, Dharma Talk, Podcast, Retreat, Tenshin Roshi, Tenzo, work practice, Zen, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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Mr. Miyagi
Today is the first full day of regular schedule training period. 5:00am wake up, zazen, service, breakfast, work, lunch, work, zazen, dinner, zazen, bed. In that order. With a bit of a break after each meal and kinhin in between … Continue reading
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Tagged Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi, work practice, Zen Buddhsim, Zen Center
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