Beginner's zazen around Westchester County, NY? - alt.zen

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From: Messer Xin <x...@woc.org>

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 0:26:55 -0500

Local: Sat, Jan 22 2005 12:26 am

Subject: Re: Beginner's zazen around Westchester County, NY?

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:49:53 -0500, dmch...@gmail.com wrote
(in message <1106365793.626013.187...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):

> Messer Xin wrote:
>> Here's a page that isn't that useful to me in my limited knowledge of
> New
>> York's geography. Isn't Rye in Westchester?

> Exquisite, thanks! Lots of leads there (I'll
> keep in mind that some of it's stale). Yep,
> Rye's in Westchester. Also Katonah and some
> of the others. DC

Judging by that listing, there's so much Zen shit happening north and south
of you, who cares how much is actually in Westchester. But the closer the
better . . .

Btw, A Jersey Chan friend and I (essentially Jap. Soto), were driving back
from Rutland, VT, to get on NY roads south, when we passed a place calling
itself a Tendai Temple! We just had to double back and investigate. It is the
only Tendai training place in the US recognized by Tendai-shu. The director
gently reminded me and my friend that Zen can be seen, in both China and
Japan, as an offspring of Tendai (Ch. T'ien-t'ai, I think).

There's a lot of Buddhist stuff out there. All of it has something to teach
you. Even the fake stuff. (Oh, and I do not mean either Tendai nor Nichiren
teachings by that. But take time to read, say, Frederick Lenz's teachings and
consider.)

---Messer Xin

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