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Words of My Perfect Teacher by Hozan Alan Senauke
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“These short poems are inspired by faulty digital transcriptions of lectures given by my teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center. The software lacked a Buddhist lexicon, and did not really understand Sojun’s expression. I extracted these verses with an understanding of Sojun’s teachings, and my sense of the wonderful happenstance of language.” – Hozan Alan Senauke
Poems drawn from the Zen teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi
These poems are assembled from faulty transcriptions of lectures given by my teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center between 1981 and 1983. The context was our weekly Saturday public Zen talk. Transcription software was applied to lectures digitized by Charlie Wilson of Engage Wisdom. The software program seems not to have understood much of Sojun’s vocal expression. Nor did it have a lexicon of Buddhist terminology to draw on. So the full transcriptions are strangely random. I extracted these verses from Sojun’s transcribed words, with an understanding of his teachings, and with my own sense of meaning revealed in the happenstance of language.
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$10.00
“These short poems are inspired by faulty digital transcriptions of lectures given by my teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center. The software lacked a Buddhist lexicon, and did not really understand Sojun’s expression. I extracted these verses with an understanding of Sojun’s teachings, and my sense of the wonderful happenstance of language.” – Hozan Alan Senauke
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Poems drawn from the Zen teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi
These poems are assembled from faulty transcriptions of lectures given by my teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center between 1981 and 1983. The context was our weekly Saturday public Zen talk. Transcription software was applied to lectures digitized by Charlie Wilson of Engage Wisdom. The software program seems not to have understood much of Sojun’s vocal expression. Nor did it have a lexicon of Buddhist terminology to draw on. So the full transcriptions are strangely random. I extracted these verses from Sojun’s transcribed words, with an understanding of his teachings, and with my own sense of meaning revealed in the happenstance of language.
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