Posted on May 9, 2011 by Alan Senauke
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Maylie Scott — Kushin Seisho/Vast Mind Clear Shining — passed away ten years ago on May 10, 2001 at the age of 68. At Rin Shinji (Forest Heart Temple), the Zen center she had created and led for too brief … Read more
Posted on April 26, 2011 by Alan Senauke
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Hazel Dickens
A great and rare soul of country music, Hazel Dickens, died at the age of 75 on April 22 in Washington D.C., from complications of leukemia. I heard the news on the radio as I was driving and … Read more
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Alan Senauke
2 CommentsThis letter from 66 Western Buddhist teachers was posted yesterday to Dennis Genpo Merzel and to a number of Buddhist publications. It is the followup to a letter that was included in my 23 February posting “The Cloud of Knowing … Read more
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Alan Senauke
4 CommentsThe statement below was drafted by Jarvis Masters’ legal team several days ago. While the news is more disappointing than I had hoped for, I think there are some encouraging aspects of Judge Duryee’s findings, and the lawyers will pursue … Read more
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Leave a CommentThis post was written by Susan Moon. I was out of town for the hearing, but Susan writes with her customary clarity. Thanks. Now we wait for Judge Duryee’s findings.
— Alan S.
On Friday, April 8, I went … Read more
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Alan Senauke
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Eight weeks have passed since the last evidentiary hearing in Jarvis Masters’ appeal. At the last session on 27 January, Judge Lynn Duryee allowed for testimony by a final defense witness, forensic linguist Robert Leonard, on his … Read more
Posted on March 21, 2011 by Alan Senauke
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As long as I can remember I have yearned for community. Most living beings, human or otherwise, have the same yearning. The Buddha recognized this, creating the fourfold sangha as a ground for liberation. Over the last twenty or twenty-five … Read more
Posted on March 20, 2011 by Alan Senauke
2 Comments#5 — 3.21.11 — Deer Park Institute/Bir to Delhi
Back in Delhi for an unscheduled day at a comfortable guesthouse, Lutyens Bungalows, before flying home tomorrow. We arrived at Old Delhi station at 5:30 this morning after rocking and rocketing … Read more
Posted on March 12, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Leave a CommentWe left Nagaloka at 6 this morning, for the Nagpur airport and an early flight to Delhi. Tonight, an overnight train to Panthankot and passage to Dharamsala and Deer Park monastery in Bir.
Nagpur’s morning streets were blessedly free of … Read more
Posted on April 26, 2011 by Alan Senauke
Leave a CommentSaffron Revolution Monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area
Over this last weekend Clear View Project hosted senior Saffron Revolution monk U Pyinya Zawta in the Bay Area. U Pyinya Zawta is the Executive Director in Exile of the All Burma Monks’ Alliance ABMA). He was a leader of … Read more