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the exponential function
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March 05, 2011 | Comments: 0 -
Moving as one body, it's a joy! Join in!
We have an easy schedule this week: sitting is optional (which means sleeping in for most of us : ) and we work from 9-1 to end with lunch. This is because the training period will start this...
March 03, 2011 | Comments: 0 -
Snow Madness
Winter has reasserted herself, shaking off the Spring-like days of sunshine and pleasantness, becoming big and bad again. Last week we had three days of snow, ending up with an average of 18...
February 26, 2011 | Comments: 3 -
Guts
I'm back in Yokoji after having spent a few weeks in the Netherlands, my homeland. Barely one hour in Holland I'm suddenly realizing that my time in the USA is over. A surprise because when I left...
February 22, 2011 | Comments: 1 -
Muddy Trauma and Mechanical Drama
Tires. Chained to more tires. With tires on top.
Today we had Dave the mechanic round to attend to the long list of mechanical chores that need doing around the Center....
February 12, 2011 | Comments: 0 -
Are we entering a new dark age?
Someone said Zen is in decline. I said, "really?, oh i didn't know", but then again, most things i see in the financial and political world are in decline. One thing that I can say for certain...
February 08, 2011 | Comments: 2 -
Hotei
I was not particularly awake, but enough so. A cigarette was all i wanted, and here now this! Not again!! Oh world, can't I even wipe the sleep from my eye before I am put to your test? If it...
February 02, 2011 | Comments: 0 -
Germany 1 - Holland 0
Angelika on time-keeping duty
We are now in the middle of our January sesshin. We have also just started the retreat, and are close to the end, too. As the sesshin spans...
January 30, 2011 | Comments: 0 -
Beaches and Belts
Today I headed down to Long Beach to give a talk for the Saturday program. Wayu often leads the class, but sometimes other senior students get the chance to do it, and today was my day. It was the...
January 23, 2011 | Comments: 1 -
Google Grants and Budgets
Apart from the odd patch here and there, the snow has largely melted off as the temperature picks up and January now feels like the best of an English summer time (aside from the fact it gets dark...
January 15, 2011 | Comments: 1