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Yokoji river and waterfall
This Temple of sunlight has not seen any sun for many days in a row. The weather was totally doing it’s own thing: pouring rain, more rain and even snow in the end. For me this kind of weather is...
December 24, 2010 | Comments: 1 -
Sketchy Internet and Bad Weather
Apologies for the lack of recent updates in the past 10 days or so. We have, as has most of Southern California, been experiencing an unprecedented (according to who you ask) amount of rain, which...
December 24, 2010 | Comments: 0 -
Rain. New Carpet. More Rain.
The dogs definitely prefer the snow to the rain
Having basked in the warm, blue-skied Californian month of December for the past couple of weeks, it was clear that at some...
December 17, 2010 | Comments: 5 -
My name is Jishin and right now my practice is...
writing a first post on this blog. I'm a strong believer in connecting and sharing. I think it's one of most important ways of learning. So it's an honor. Thank you!
For those of you who...
December 12, 2010 | Comments: 7 -
New Bloggers On the Horizon
The egg trailer—former accommodation and current eyesore. A farm in Long Beach wants to take it to use for a chicken coop!
There will be two new bloggers appearing on this...
December 10, 2010 | Comments: 4 -
The Long and Rut-Filled Road
No spreadsheet too large or data entry task too complicated for Graham, the new office trainee.
Roshi and I went down to visit our neighbors today, the Tylers, who own most of...
December 04, 2010 | Comments: 0 -
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
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