{"id":120,"date":"2010-10-25T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/10\/cant-complain\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:16:00","slug":"cant-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/10\/cant-complain.html","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Complain"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-zTjrEQNdo?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2-zTjrEQNdo?fs=1<\/a>\n<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>I love this tune! Yes, I got distracted again on my little writing retreat but I\u2019m wrapping it up soon anyhow. And I\u2019m quite pleased with how it\u2019s coming together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Anyway, tonight we\u2019ve got Monday night zazen with dokusan and then our discussion of Melissa Blacker\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boundlesswayzen.org\/teishos\/blacker-noteisho.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>The Koan \u201cNo:\u201d Observations on Wumen\u2019s Commentary<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Tomorrow I get back to working for a living.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Little out of place<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Little out of tune<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>So lost in space<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Racin\u2019 the moon<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Climbin\u2019 the walls<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>of a hurricane<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Still after all<\/span><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>I can\u2019t complain <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-4557343591509057502?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this tune! 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