Joe, I'm going to start posting directly from the homepage to see if this is better. I'm using an ipad and that seems to be the source of the trouble (rather than my usual desire/craving).
Anyway, it's bloody 5.40am and I'm off to sit with the Adelaide Zen Group (Diamond Sangha). Joe, do you know Bob Joyner Roshi. He was given inka by Ross Bolletor? Mike --- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote: > > Merle, > > No art there yet, as before, but all the rest of Subhana's site is > chock-a-block with info. > > Her contact info is there. Dharma talks on audio files are there. > > One of her paintings is at the head of the page, the Red Tara goddess with > the Sword of Wisdom. > > I like seeing the photos of the zendo building, and practitioners on the > porch area, and waiting in the dokusan line outside with the Jisha, and the > photo of Subhana herself in her dokusan room. > > I know all or most of the teachers in her line, but not yet her. > > My late teacher Patrick Hawk Roshi was her friend, and Subhana visited Tucson > a number of times. I regret I missed both opportunities to meet her. She is > a teacher in the Diamond Sangha lineage of the late Robert Aitken Roshi of > Hawai'i. She may know me as one of Pat Hawk's students (perhaps my infamy > has spread even to her ears, I do not know). > > Subhana probably knows my good friend Emma Stone, from Melbourne, who was > also a student of Pat Hawk with me and practiced with us in Tucson at the > Zendo here where I was active for 25 years, and was President for a while, > and spent many years on the Board, and did many, many sesshin, with hundreds > of people over 3 decades, here. A strong sangha! Subhana will know it: "Zen > Desert Sangha". Pat Hawk was our teacher. Our first teacher in earliest > days was Maezumi Roshi, for two years in the early 1980s. > > "Talk about"? You decide. It's like Zen practice: just BEGIN, and continue. > Listen, too, of course. ;-) > > In the old days, people did not need something to talk about. They'd have > tea together. Maybe they'd talk, maybe they wouldn't. > > If I were you, I'd mention Art, and maybe tell her about your website. Email > is good, too, as we know. > > And if you can encourage her to put up more art on her site, please do! > > Well, you take care, now. > > Best, > > --Joe > > Merle Lester wrote: > > > > nothing there joe!!!!!!! what am i going to discuss?..she'll want the > > dollar!... does she know of you?...merle > > > > > > http://www.subhana.com.au/art/ > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
