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I just want to point out a wonderful new resource for people interested in Zen in the west.<\/p>\n

The anonymous blog Sweeping Zen<\/a> and its connected website<\/a> is, among other things, attempting to list and provide biographical materials on all Zen teachers in the West. There are probably too many for this project to succeed. But what a wonderful failure it is already shaping up to be.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been aware for sometime of the writer working as \u201cMind Meal,\u201d as one of the reliable contributors to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m very impressed with what he or she has done already.<\/p>\n

And only wonder when she or he sleeps\u2026<\/p>\n

Last, thinking of that image of sweeping Zen, while not related, but, still, when the old monkey mind makes an association\u2026<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LD8HDta7Z_4<\/a>\n

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I just want to point out a wonderful new resource for people interested in Zen in the west. The anonymous blog Sweeping Zen and its connected website is, among other things, attempting to list and provide biographical materials on all Zen teachers in the West. There are probably too many for this project to succeed. 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