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| Diamond Sangha - 1972 |
This is the cover of the Diamond Sangha journal 1972.
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| Diamond Sangha (1972) Table of Contents |
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| The Ten Wave Riding Pictures |
In
classical Zen Buddhism, there is what is called “The Ten Ox-herding
pictures”. Each picture refers to the stages of enlightenment, from the
time a student of Zen meditation begins practicing this discipline
until the student finally attains enlightenment. Since we were in
Hawaii, and some of us came out of the surfer-hippie culture of that
era, I came up with the idea of translating the Ten Ox-herding pictures
into something more familiar to the young people of our time.
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| Maui Zendo 1972 |
Maui
Zendo was a communal meditation center. Here our small group of
meditation students shares a meal. I am the guy in the center of the
group sitting on the left hand side of the table. Needless to say, it
was a magical time and place. That table was situated on a large porch,
and the Zen center was located at around 1500’ elevation , so from that
porch we could look out across the island of Maui towards West Maui.
