Thank you. Repeat.

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Quora. Yes, we prepared. Let's do the best.

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I think part of what has happened historically with the developments in Zen Center has to do with Suzuki Roshi had a vision and Richard Baker was very effective in seeing how to bring about But he also wanted a place for a monastery. I remember when we went down to see Tassajara in the fall of 1966, and he was very clear, yes, this is it. big photos on both sides, quotes from all kinds of famous and infamous people, but there was a certain note that was struck by those big pages of photographs and quotations that resonated with people that I think those of us who stamped and mailed all that stuff would never have imagined

[10:23]

I gave a talk in New York City at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as part of a series sponsored by the Linda's Farm Fellows on Tassajara as an example of an intentional community. And there were over a thousand people who showed up for that talk. I mean, there was just... part of it was, in retrospect, remarkably easy for both Hasahara and Henry Hodge. Now, there are a lot of people riding helium balloons.

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This is like a fast parade of helium balloons that went up. And a lot of people said, yes, I want to be part of this. Even if I never go and put my feet on the ground, I want to be part of this. And we raised more than half the money. Green Gulch was in a lot of ways easier.

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You know, George Willwright kept postponing. If you don't have to pay me this year, we'll put it at the end, or we'll just erase this year's payment. So that helped a whole lot. Oh, what was it like to be a woman? Well, as I said earlier, I for a long time, until I thinking like a man. And you know I was on nine different I didn't sense that.

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have to do with young men practicing together in the monasteries. And that the ego defenses that young men have are different than the ego defenses that women have, which might tend more towards ingratiation and so on. I think you know what I mean. They're all in the family. So I wondered, in the conversations that you had, if you uncovered maybe some of the different practicing 171 foot walking deck outside, and you can't see one end from the other.

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So I do jikon walking sitting. Jikon walking sitting. That's my morning practice. That's the minimum of my morning practice, and sometimes I do more in the afternoon. And what I've noticed is that since I've started adding consequence and emphasize the same amount of walking as sitting by different people who have different go into rigidity.

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But also, and this is partially my age, I'm not practicing with young'uns. We'll see. I've just recently been invited to start teaching up in Mendocino County in Ukiah and in the Anderson Valley. And we'll see who shows up. But so far, who shows up is not 18 to 24-year-olds. psychological mindset. In other words, finding an appropriate and wholesome relationship to the body rather than trying to fit the body like water into an ice cube square. Well, my aim is to, by focusing on the

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Oh, there's somebody behind you. in terms of what Mel was saying earlier. I think that's to you, Ed.

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You know, Ed and bread just nicely rhyme. Well, that's what that introduction is about. New hardcover edition with color photos. You can get them probably in the bookstore here. response.

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Robert Guadiana's window in his hands. I mean, the building is just reeking of his pesky stuff. What have you, you were, you were cheating on What I sense underneath what you're bringing up is the question, how do I check out a teacher?

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And I'm a great advocate of spying. I shop around, get a direct experience of different teachers. And then when you are drawn to somebody, spy on them for three years. And then maybe Oh yeah! That might be.

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I think it would be useful to get your perspective. you.

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I know Davis would want you to say something. answerable I don't know the answer so it's kind of

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Yes, OK. And I just.

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