{"id":168,"date":"2010-05-05T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/05\/blog-brain-drain\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T22:54:00","slug":"blog-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/05\/blog-brain-drain.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog Brain Drain"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S-I70sHzsLI\/AAAAAAAAA48\/w3EfjbgX-zs\/s1600\/brain-wave-monitor.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0uPSljNE9f4\/S-I70sHzsLI\/AAAAAAAAA48\/w3EfjbgX-zs\/s320\/brain-wave-monitor.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">I\u2019ve been engaged in an active listserve conversation among Zen teachers for the past week or so. The list is usually pretty quiet but now it\u2019s really hopping with conversations about important stuff, like how to talk with each other, what to do when someone falls down, what to do with information from aggrieved parties, and how to take responsibility.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">A bunch of trained preachers sure can roll it out! <\/span><\/span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\"> <\/span><\/span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">And it hasn\u2019t left any time or energy to reflect and blog. So I plan to unpl<\/span><\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">ug from that for a while. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">More later.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-1867629502099528238?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been engaged in an active listserve conversation among Zen teachers for the past week or so. 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