Dear Zen Friend

1)      June Sesshin:    06/06,  06/07,  06/08.   

         July  Sesshin:     07/11,  07/12,  07/13. 

2)      Chanting and Dharma Discussion  in June:    06/21  (Saturday)  1 pm. 

3)      Wood Splitting:             07/18  (Friday)    9 am   

         Chanting and Dharma Discussion in July:    07/19 (Saturday)    2 pm     Guest speaker,   Rev. Tenku Ruff from Beacon Zen Temple in New York

          Sunday zazenkai:    07/20 (Sunday)  8 am to noon,     Trail Walk  1 pm

4)   A friend showed me a picture of a chainsaw priced $265. and said it would be donation to Valley Zendo. It was good brand, looked fine. 

A reliable chainsaw is always needed at Zendo. There are many trees to be cut and made firewood every year. A good chainsaw is always a good gift. 

Next morning he said the price of the chainsaw had gone up $100. higher. As he clicked on the item few times in the previous night, the price changed higher on line. I did not know there was no right price in the internet.  He said he would buy the chainsaw after the price would go down in a few weeks. It was normal process. He lives in internet world. I felt that Capitalism had changed. People used to fight for a right price, Now there is no right price. 

I visited a local hardware store after he left, there was a chainsaw tag priced $199.99 It was lighter, with more plastics. Price looked right. 

I visited the store 2 days later again.  I worried that the price would have gone up by any reason. I could buy the chainsaw by $179.99 with Memorial Day discount.  Nobody seemed to have clicked in the meantime. I was confused.  Which price is right?

I have an old (first) chainsaw,  which a friend repaired half a year ago. I could not start its engine.  

I have another old (second) chainsaw, which had no problem for years. Last November it failed starting engine. I’d like to make sure how bad it was.  I brought  it to a repair shop.  A counter person handled the chainsaw, then its engine started. There really was no problem with the machine. 

He showed me a technique how to start engine.  I could not lift the chainsaw so high as he showed. The center of chainsaw problems had belonged to myself,  my muscles. 

Regards.

Eishin Ikeda

Valley Zendo