\u201cPreserving Words and Worlds.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s about the brothers and others of the St. John\u2019s Abbey Hill Museum and Monastic Library (about 100 miles from here) and their inspiring mission to preserve the sacred texts of any world tradition they can microfiche. I was touched particularly by comments about how many traditions went extinct in just the 20th Century in the Ukraine. All those interviewed spoke about how much is irretrievable.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe texts, of course, cannot fully capture the spirit, especially the actual daily lives of those practitioners and how specifically they unfolded and expressed the great mystery. But at least they point to something lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYearning for the old ways,\u201d is the phrase that came to mind. Seems that Dogen and Katagiri both got a bad case of this in their later years and I imaged that Roshi would have enjoyed listening to this program a great deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I found myself zipping along in my little truck missing my old teacher.\u00a0<\/p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>\n\u201cHappy birthday on the auspicious occasion of your birth,\u201d he once said to all of us. I now say it back to him.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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