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I attended a Grand Opening of a new retreat center in California today.
Hye Wol Sunim is in front of the door and I am in the yellow t-shirt (100 degrees today in the California desert) and to my right is my wife and daughter (wearing shirt with Buddha image on it).
Sunim planting a Bodhi Tree on the grounds of the retreat center.
Thanks for posting these. I think I recognize the Sinhalese Korean-ordained Zen bhikshu. He (or someone who looked very like him) once spent a night here at Wat Benjama back in the late 80's. I think he's the most argumentative monk I've ever met. If you said almost any sentence containing the word "is" you'd be sure to get the Pythonesque reply, "No, it isn't!"
Best wishes,
Dhammanando Bhikkhu
Yena yena hi maññanti,
tato taṃ hoti aññathā.
In whatever way they conceive it,
It turns out otherwise.
(Sn. 588)
David
You call 100 def F hot ???
Seriously, lovely pics, thank you for sharing!
Great to also see your wife and daughter.
Metta
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Dhammanando wrote:
Thanks for posting these. I think I recognize the Sinhalese Korean-ordained Zen bhikshu. He (or someone who looked very like him) once spent a night here at Wat Benjama back in the late 80's. I think he's the most argumentative monk I've ever met. If you said almost any sentence containing the word "is" you'd be sure to get the Pythonesque reply, "No, it isn't!"
Hi Bhante,
Hmm, could be, but it doesn't sound like him, at least not his disposition right now. But he did leave another temple to open this one . . .
Thanks!