The Stadium Pal – Some Real Zen Possibilities Or What I Learn from Young People

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y

I’m up taking my early morning turn with puppy Bodhi and he’s quite happy at the moment chewing on a rope. So I read a blog I enjoy by a young person about another blog about white-people-and-their-wacky-shenanigans. He mentions someone named “David Sedaris” and I felt a lot like when I talk with African American friends, although in those conversations I first need to get some of the words translated and then ask about who the players are.

Anyway, I didn’t have a clue to who David Saderis was. It could just be due to my bad memory that I like to think is the result of 30 years of zazen (some people say that happens), although my brother’s memory is worse and he has sat a sum total of 15 minutes during these 30 years. Could be genetics. Early onset of dementia. More likely, I miss a lot of what’s going on in this culture – white, black, and all through the rainbow.

So I googled “David Saderis” and found something that could revolutionize Zen. No more need for short zazen periods to accommodate the aging male boomers with grapefruit size prostates! Anyway, take a look and if you try the “stadium pal” please let me know if it works. Dogen had a lot to say about “toileting” and this might add at least one chapter to the American Shobogenzo.