- Dear zen friend
- 1) March Sesshin: 03/14, 03/15, 03/16.
- April Sesshin: 04/11, 04/12, 04/13.
- 2) Chanting and Dharma Discussion: 1 pm on April 19 (Saturday)
- New program : To be held once a month. This time we do chanting together then, dharma talk ” Life as a Buddhist” follows. Whole session may take one and half hours.
- This kind of working class should have been offered before. I have excuses why there were not such offerings. I had been sick for years. Corona pandemic happened in the same time. Two unsolved questions kept me in the dark until recently. And I was younger than 70 years of age.
- A guest speaker may be invited from time to time. If you are interested, join us at the zendo.
- 3) On Sundays there is Sunday Zazenkai from 8 am to noon as usual.
- 4) It was cold on 02/16 (Sun) and snow started. In the midnight power was out. Sleet, ice, snow reciprocally fell with strong wind. About 1 foot snow piled. Temperature at 8 am on Monday was 0 degree Fahrenheit, 20 degrees in the daytime. Snow kept falling. Driveway was shoveled halfway in the 2 feet snow. There was no access to the road. Cold temperature forced me to stop working outside.
- On Tuesday at noon time two firefighters from adjacent town knocked the door. They were visiting each house for making sure people were safe. Digging the car started after access to the road was made.
- On Wednesday the car was dug out. Process was hard because strong wind pushed snow under the car and snow became ice due to frigid temperature. A hammer was used for shoveling.
- Power outage ended after 54 hours of struggle. While internet was cut off, I had peace of mind. It was the second worst snow storm for Valley Zendo
- .Regards.
- Eishin Ikeda
- Valley Zendo
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