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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...
December 03, 2010 | Comments: 13 -
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...
November 24, 2010 | Comments: 1 -
Sesshin: Part III
This is one seriously peeved pumpkin.
Here we are. Day 5 of Rohatsu sesshin, the final sesshin of the Fall Training Period. Eishu was with us up until Wednesday when he had to...
November 19, 2010 | Comments: 1 -
Shuso Hossen (Dharma Combat)
Yesterday was the day of reckoning for me as the head trainee of the Fall Training Period here at Yokoji. We held the dharma combat ceremony at 11am which is the most elaborate ceremony that we...
November 15, 2010 | Comments: 7 -
The Return of the Kokai
Got a tough job that needs doing?.. Well don't call these guys. They can't even stand up straight.
Today is no ordinary Wednesday. Today is the last regular schedule Wednesday...
November 11, 2010 | Comments: 0 -
Comings and Goings
Dr. David Jindo Butler
In the mysterious workings of the world, as taught by spiritual teachers of varying traditions, there is fundamentally neither gain nor loss. This...
November 06, 2010 | Comments: 6 -
Just a Quickie...
Not much time to write tonight, or the whole of this week so far, so just a few pictures. Tenshin Roshi arrived from the UK on Wednesday night - welcome home Roshi! We had some Cahuilla basket...
November 06, 2010 | Comments: 0 -
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...
October 30, 2010 | Comments: 5 -
Tractor Woe, Bird Woe
What A Mess!
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...
October 28, 2010 | Comments: 3 -
Roshi Cross the Mersey
Real Men Mix Cement
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,...
October 25, 2010 | Comments: 2