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<\/a><\/div>\nDon\u2019t think I\u2019ve gone two weeks without a blog post since I started this thing 3+ years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n My energy has been elsewhere, jumping into a new job.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a rising awareness (check out the NPR series here<\/a>) about drop-out kids and the impacts that dropping out has on them and everyone. Even in Minnesota where we think we\u2019re all so above average, we have only a 65% graduation rate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 3,800 young people drop out of high school every year in Hennepin County alone (that includes Minneapolis and suburbs but not St. Paul).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Thanks to some strong and passionate leadership, a bunch of resources are being applied to the problem here and\u00a0 I\u2019m leading the team <\/span><\/span>in one school program<\/span><\/span> to pull it together <\/span><\/span>fast<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>and make a difference.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Challenging work that feels good through and through.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And I don\u2019t think Zen practice has been less on my mind in the 34 years since I first plopped onto a zafu.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n But there\u2019s still this little niggling matter that has been coming up as presented in the old Diamond Sutra. <\/i>Zen fans everywhere know it. The heart of it seems to be all about bodhisattvas not being bodhisattvas and therefore being bodhisattvas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Seems to me that\u2019s a whole lot of dharma<\/a> misdirection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The sutra begins with the Buddha putting on his robe, going on alms gathering, eating, and then sitting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n After all, that\u2019s the real deal.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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