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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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a poem
This poem crossed my bow again yesterday and I kind of liked it: Slip me down between the waves,Beneath the needs, before the craves.Slip me down and make me freeAs apples falling from the tree. (View Post)
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Re: Chanting
I used to do a bit of chanting. Probably the longest I memorized was The Heart Sutra (in Pali, I think). I never did memorize it in English. It seemed to mean less, be less alive, in English... which… (View Post)1 -
Re: Zen Buddhist Beliefs
@how -- Your response above made me look back on some of the training I went through: I look back and think, "I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy and I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in Chin… (View Post)
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Re: Book on raising child
When my daughter had not yet been born but was on the way, I encountered a series of worries, most of them common as cobwebs, I imagine. When I retailed some of my worries to my younger sister who ha… (View Post)
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Re: Does anyone here seek counseling/therapy?
I went to a psychologist, a former Jesuit priest, for a number of years a long time ago. When I started out, I was afraid that the experience might draw me away from the Zen practice I was devoting a… (View Post)
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