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Begining July 8, 2008, Floating Zendo in San Jose, CA will study Dogen Zenji’s Zuimonki on Tuesday evenings.

Zuimonki is a collection of dharma talks to lay and monk practitioners given by Dogen Zenji, recorded by his disciple Ejo.

We will use a few translations:

• Online: from Sotoshu (Soto Zen in Japan, likely translated by Shohaku Okumura in 1988 variously indicating Kyoto Soto Zen or Sotoshu).
• Book: Thomas Cleary’s Record of Things Heard, available from Amazon, and possibly from local book sellers.

If you can not attend our Tuesday evening zazen/study, we hope you will listen to recordings of these meetings.

We are pleased to announce Floating Zendo’s 2008 sesshin (retreat) will be held from August 18 through August 24, 2008 at Jikoj (Los Gatos, CA) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. We look forward to seeing you there!

See the sesshin page for latest information.

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(Deadline extended… please send contributions to Carolyn! )

Dear Floating Zendo Sangha,

Our next newsletter is our traditional Sangha Newsletter. We welcome news from our far-flung sangha, as well as poems, stories, photos, artwork, and calligraphy. If what you want to send doesn’t fit these categories, send it along anyway. We look forward to publishing your FZ creativity.

We’re also looking for a logo for the Floating Zendo and hope you will be inspired to vision, or paint, or calligraph, or doodle some image of the Floating Zendo. Please send graphics in .jpeg format. We’re happy to receive written descriptions too, such as “Buddha on Cloud,” or whatever your vision is. We’ll be posting these as we receive them on the website blog, www.floatingzendo.org, so tune in there.

Please send all items to the editor carolyn at carolyndille.com by July 20, 2008 (extended from May 24, 2008).

Wikipedia now has an entry for our teacher Angie!

Take a look… you may learn something that you didn’t know about our teacher!

(P.S. There is also a permanent link to the Wikipedia entry on the Blog Roll.)

Angie will be one of the main teachers at the Women’s Retreat to be held at Empty Nest Zendo in California’s Central Valley from July 10-14, 2008. Please contact Empty Nest’s teacher Grace at (559) 877-2400 or grace@emptynestzendo.org . Their web site is emptynestzendo.org

As of late November 2007, we have begun our study of Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

We hope you will join us for regular zazen and our study of this wonderful book, led by our teacher Angie.

We have begun the study of Kobun Chino roshi’s Aspects of Sitting. We began this study in mid-August 2007, and will review a chapter each Tuesday evening after zazen in San Jose.

The text addresses guidelines for zazen, which are especially relevant, as we are about to hold our annual sesshin. Kobun was Angie’s teacher.

Angie handed out paper copies of Aspects for local use in San Jose.

There is an almost identical online copy available at Jikoji, if you’d like to study along with us (remotely).  Angie’s Tuesday evening talks on Aspects will be available as well.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, guest speaker Michael Newhall from Jikoji cited a poem from memory that many sangha members enjoyed. The following is the poem in full:

Chungnan

Middle-aged now, following the Way.
Settled at evening near the Chungnan slopes.
Delight, and I wander off by myself
Searching for what I need to see alone.
I climb up to the roots of the streams,
Sit and watch the White Clouds pass,
Meet the old man of the woods,
Talk and laugh, forget to go home.
… Wang Wei (699-759 AD)

[We are beginning study of A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, written by Santideva. We begin with Chapter 1 on May 1, 2007, as part of our regular Tuesday evening schedule in San Jose. Please join us.]
A GUIDE TO THE BODHISATTVA’S WAY OF LIFE
(concerning development of an enlightened mind)
Translations in print:

• Bodhicaryavatara, Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment, Marion Matics
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior, Alexander Berzin
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Stephen Bachelor
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Vesna and Alan Wallace
• The Way of the Bodhisattva, Walstan Fletcher

Online Translations:

• Shantideva.net
• berzinarchives.com

Commentaries:

• Kunpal.com
• Lotsawahouse.org

• Transcendent Wisdom, Dalai Lama (on Chapter 9)
• A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night, Dalai Lama
• Meaningful to Behold, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• No Time to Lose, Pemo Chodron

Beginning In late January 2007, Floating Zendo will study the 10 Ox Herding Pictures of Kaku-an Shi-en (Ch) / Kuo-an Shih-yuan (Ch):
Book, online:

• D.T. Suzuki from _Manual of Zen Buddhism_ (a classic)

Books, offline:

• Loori, John Daido, _Riding the Ox Home_
• Kapleau, Philip, _Three Pillars of Zen_
• Shibayama, Zenkei, _A flower does not talk; Zen essays_ (another version, with 6 pictures)

Online:

• Urs App
• Hsu Yun (includes Chinese of poems)