{"id":1549,"date":"2008-05-11T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:13:13","slug":"a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Blog by a Zen Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SCcl4T6EXJI\/AAAAAAAAA74\/xIKCGEnnHao\/s1600-h\/foxandanimals.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SCcl4T6EXJI\/AAAAAAAAA74\/xIKCGEnnHao\/s320\/foxandanimals.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>I\u2019ve just learned that my old <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Dharma<\/a> friend, the Zen teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildfoxzen.org\/teacher.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dosho Port<\/a> has started a blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wild Fox Zen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just took a peek, and it\u2019s barely under way. But I recommend setting up a link and checking it out as it goes forward. He\u2019s got a great Zen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and just enough sin in his background to remind us all that the great way is one continuous mistake\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I think of him as one of the more interesting teachers going right now.<\/p>\n<p>I also hear he has a book in the works and the people I know who are in the know, say it\u2019s going to be very, very good\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Check him out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-1812788393153780783?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just learned that my old Dharma friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port has started a blog, Wild Fox Zen. I just took a peek, and it\u2019s barely under way. But I recommend setting up a link and checking it out as it goes forward. He\u2019s got a great Zen eye, a wicked sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A New Blog by a Zen Master<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve just learned that my old Dharma friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port has started a blog, Wild Fox Zen.I just took a peek, and it&#039;s barely under way.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A New Blog by a Zen Master\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;ve just learned that my old Dharma friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port has started a blog, Wild Fox Zen.I just took a peek, and it&#039;s barely under way.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-05-11T12:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:13:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SCcl4T6EXJI\/AAAAAAAAA74\/xIKCGEnnHao\/s320\/foxandanimals.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html\",\"name\":\"A New Blog by a Zen Master\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2008-05-11T12:42:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:13:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"I've just learned that my old Dharma friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port has started a blog, Wild Fox Zen.I just took a peek, and it's barely under way.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/a-new-blog-by-a-zen-master.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A New Blog by a Zen Master\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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