Edgar,
Thank you for the write-up. It must have been a great time in your formative
young-adult years.
I don't see that you stayed for long with any one teacher, or even any one
thing. You do not emphasize any. You may have had a survey-course excursion
in those years of various offerings, but you don't say how deep, into what.
My experience is that it is most valuable to develop a relationship with a
teacher that allows you to visit -- or a relationship which, by your commitment
to the teaching and practice, definitely results in your visiting -- the
teacher often, and regularly, within a life or a time when you are ALSO able to
practice regularly on your own, in case you are, say, away from the teacher a
good deal.
How about sesshin? Did you have a chance to participate in 7-day or longer
sesshin? How about Rohatsu, the most intensive sesshin of the year, each year,
during the three years?
Of course! the important teacher is nature itself and our nature; reality, yes.
This is what our practice with a good teacher can open us to. A good teacher
will also make sure we DO open to that (THIS), and not something else.
A point to check!
Thanks again.
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> I lived in Japan 3 years. [snip]
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