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June 21, 1999

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The Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist Sutra Book is the framework for
this newest project. SageBush Monkey has been getting a tad
restless with chanting and recitation during sesshin. The
bushes and grasses grow deep.

To fire up the Dharma Weed Wacker Bushy's made a bit of a study
to discover just what these chants and recitations mean when
you start to decode the Zen words and unpack the references.
Links from and commentary on the gathas, sutras, dharanis,
songs and dedications chanted during sesshin will let you
wander along with Bushy on this ancient path.

http://hwy50zen.com/sesshin-sutras.html
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ORIYOKI
- The New Vegetarian Epicure Bushy's current favorite cookbook
- Book Review: Crooked Cucumber

FISH COURSE
- Verba Seniorum

FEASTING WITH FRIENDS
- Loincloth Buddhism

DESSERT
- a well nobody dug
- *
- I didn't see
- The Ticket

HEARD AT TABLE
- Yasutani Roshi, Rumi and Maezumi Roshi

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The food from The New Vegetarian Epicure is so satisfying.
Even a cannibal like Bushy can go for days without a thought of
a meaty meal. Apple - Walnut Stuffing! Ooooh!

amazon.com Book Description
Anna Thomas, author of the best-selling The Vegetarian
Epicure, which became the bible of vegetarian cooks in the
seventies and remains a classic, now returns with an exuberant
new cookbook that reflects the way we live and eat today. The
66 menus are geared to busy, health-conscious families who are
drawn to good fresh foods and lighter fare, filled with the
pungent ethnic flavors that Anna Thomas loves.
Here are more than 325 recipes for every occasion, from
seasonal family meals and little dinner parties to picnics and
holiday feasts.

Read more reviews or buy it

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Book Review: Crooked Cucumber
The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki by David Chadwick.

Chadwick, who studied with Suzuki from 1966 to 1971, collects
stories from the master and Roshi's many students about
Suzuki's life and work and weaves them into a lively biography.

The review is too long to print here, read it at:

Http://hwy50zen.com/zen-bookstore/book-reviews/Cucumber.html

Order it


____________________________ FISH COURSE

A monk looking for some guidance and encouragement goes to Abba
Sisoius and asks: "What am I to do since I have fallen?"

The Abba replies: "Get up".

"I did get up, but I fell again",

"Get up again."

"I did, but I must admit that I fell once again. So what should
I do?"

"Do not fall down without getting back up."


Verba Seniorum, trans. Robert Walker. Empty Sky newsletter,
Amarillo,
Texas, March 1997. (Quoted in John Tarrant, Light within the
Darkness
(New York: Harper Collins 1998)p201. Whew! Credits are almost
as long as the annecdote.


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Loincloth Buddhism

When Morikatsu, a minor bureaucrat and puffed up little toad,
came to pay his respects to Zen master Bukko, he told the head
monk, "People here in Kamakura are so illiterate when they
write the name of your sect they use the kanji character for
loincloth. What a joke - loincloth Buddhists! The stupid
clods!"

Shocked that people would disrespect the Zen sect in this way
he rushed off to tell Bukko.

On hearing, Bukko laughed. "That's right! The power of life
comes out the front gate. At death the power goes out the
back. Life and death is the great matter of Zen. The organs
of life and death are wrapped up in a loincloth. Naturally if
you contemplate a loincloth deeply, you get to the bottom of
things. So, go use this loincloth to show that ninny Morikatsu
our teaching."

Waving the loincloth in Morikatsu's face the head monk came
forth, "All living beings are contained in this! What do you
say?"

Dumbfounded Morikatsu retreated without a word.
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Trevor Leggett, British scholar, notes: in 13th century Japan
Zen was so new many people didn't know how to spell it. The
Chinese character for Zen was sometimes confused with a similar
kanji which means loincloth.

From an old issue of Tricycle ?

_________________________________________ DESSERT

a well nobody dug
filled with no water
ripples
and a shapeless
weightless
man drinks
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*only one koan matters
you
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I didn't see one thing on my trip
but I breathed and whatever I breathed was time

three poems from CROW WITH NO MOUTH: Ikkyu
translated by stephen berg



THE TICKET
The poet saw the moon
dimglimmering
through the dewy windowpane.
It was a nineteenth-century moon,
soft as moths.
And he was on laudanum or opium.

Only yesterday when I asked her on
the phone
why she sounded so happy, she
replied,
"I'm on psychopharmaceuticals and in
the country."
Ah, that's the ticket.
- Harvey Shapiro

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From morning to night, vividly, imediately, the original face
of univerality moves briskly in detailed pahticulars.
- Yasutani Roshi


Out beyond ideas of wrong doing
And right doing
There is a field
I'll meet you there
- Rumi


Details . . . There is nothing else.
- Maezumi Roshi
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