Reflection

Zen Buddhist elders nearly prevented Abbot Loori’s ordination as a monk, after seeing a tattoo peeking from his robe. A Navy souvenir, it depicted an innocent-enough anchor, but Japanese associate tattoos with criminals, and Abbot Loori refused to erase his past. The ordination finally went ahead. But the abbot wore a bandage over the...
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I received a card today that informed me that the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery had passed away. You can find more information about this interesting man on the pages set up in tribute to him by the Mountain and Rivers Order. I did not know him well but I did have the opportunity...
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I was poking around on a friend’s blog and looking over his flicker stream when I realized at some point he was doing the whole “photo a day for a year” thing. I remember my little sister starting out on this project awhile ago. I think she decided to drop it a little into...
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