Dear all,
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Gassho!
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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hi this is michael. i m not sure who can read this and this is my first time ever posting on a blog. so kriti please let me know if it is wrong!
ReplyDeleteanyway, my name is michael and i live in taiwan. i am currently running back and forth to japan every three months for sesshin in japan. i am here here in taiwan studying mandarin and such. last summer i lived in the temple. it is on the side of a mountain. i ve heard that most temples traditionally have been built on the sides of mountains. the town is called obama and it is on the west coast of japan. there is also a temple down the street from it called hoshinji. last sesshin you could here people yelling mu during our zazen period all the way from the other temple. i thought that was the sweetest and most inspiring thing. you really feel in it, everyone is working hard.
dokuson is quite the challenge there. one time i said to the teacher during dokisan watashiwa gyogen. that means my name is gyogen (my dharma name there) in japanese. i think he went on and on in japanese about how much he loves his teacher because he kept pointing at him, smiling and holding his heart....finally i told him i don t speak a lick of japanese. he just laughed and said...continue, continue! ...so i did.
i am going back to japan in 4 weeks for next sesshin. possibly when i am finished here in taiwan with my studies i will go live in a different temple in japan south of kyoto... but i ll see how that all goes.