Jakusho Kwong Roshi

coco

Are any of you familiar with this person?

I downloaded a program from YT yesterday that I regard as nice primer to understanding Buddhism and he was one of the speakers. This man managed to aid me in understanding certain things that I have been pondering and have come to be familiar with, but still had a fuzzy definition of.

Here is part one of that program. Follow the successive parts if you wish. I can only suspect that some of you may not agree with everything about the program, but my main focus is this Jakusho Kwong Roshi.

Part One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9udWyQZ1pMU

If memory serves, the monk does not appear until part two and he speaks here and there throughout the rest of the presentation.

coco

Perhaps the reason why he reached me so successfully even though he spoke few times in the video, is because he is an American, speaking American English. That is not to say he used silly American buzz words and catch phrases, but that as an American I understood him much more readily than listening to a foreign person speaking English.

Uh oh, I do not mean to imply I do not respect non Americans. I'm not going nationalistic on you!

Perhaps I am not expressing myself correctly. I intend to express that sometimes listening to a person in your own native language, or in the case of English, native style of language, the point can be conveyed and received easier.

Or maybe this man is simply unique in of himself?

coco

Gentle forum members, may I petition you for your thoughts and opinions about this?

jinzang

I don't know the gentleman, but his Wikipedia article makes me think he knows what he's talking about. There are many good American teachers. If you find what he says helpful, thats good.

coco

Thank you jinzang,

I have been reading about this monk this afternoon and discovered he is in California where he established a monastary. He is a Zen Buddhist practitioner. Apparently he has written books and has speaking engagements.

As Buddha and common sense wisely suggests, I will continue my investigations of this gentleman to get a better feel of him.

Dearest Mods, was this site was down for a while this afternoon? - or perhaps it was a problem on my end? I have only just a few minutes ago been able to access this site again much to my relief.