I sat a short Zazenkai this weekend with my first teacher in Japan, Azumu Ikuo Roshi (東 郁雄), a great Dogen scholar and former instructor at Soji-ji ... now age 92 and sharp as a tack. Here he is Saturday, lecturing on Dogen as always ...
He led the lay persons' group there for many many years ... I may not have stayed with this practice without him.
He was always so kind, down to earth.When I came here 20 years ago, my Japanese was pretty bad the first few years, and he lectured in Japanese ... but always took time to summarize in broken English so I would get the gist.
He led the lay persons' group there for many many years ... I may not have stayed with this practice without him.
He was always so kind, down to earth.When I came here 20 years ago, my Japanese was pretty bad the first few years, and he lectured in Japanese ... but always took time to summarize in broken English so I would get the gist.
It is wonderful when we can still have a chance to say 'thank you' to old teachers, or any of the other people who support each of us in this life
(Note: MONDAYS with TAIGU will be TUESDAY with TAIGU this week)
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Thank You!
your love and respect for your teacher is quite beautiful and enormously inspiring!
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