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I just read the interview with Scott Edelstein, which I enjoyed- interesting to hear the news, as it were.
I used to go hear Kobun speak at the Santa Cruz zendo in the 70’s, when I was a student at UCSC. One thing I remember Kobun said was “take your time with the lotus”. I have finally learned to sit the lotus, although my ...
Checking the quote CowTao posted I find the following:
“The word Prajnaparamita comes through in its Sanskrit form. This means “Perfection of insight”, the highest, clearest, most straightforward or most important insight. This word insight does not just refer to an intellectual insight like the solving of a mathematical equation. ...
A friend of mine took me to hear Kobun Chino Otogawa speak at the Santa Cruz Zen Center in about 1971. Kobun had a way of saying things where I thought he was speaking to me, and he was describing what I had to do (or not do) in order to be on-time or in time with my life. There was this sense of the future coming on, and although he could have no ...