{"id":550,"date":"2008-07-06T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/07\/the-stadium-pal-some-real-zen-possibilities-or-what-i-learn-from-young-people\/"},"modified":"2008-07-06T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T06:42:00","slug":"the-stadium-pal-some-real-zen-possibilities-or-what-i-learn-from-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/07\/the-stadium-pal-some-real-zen-possibilities-or-what-i-learn-from-young-people.html","title":{"rendered":"The Stadium Pal &#8211; Some Real Zen Possibilities Or What I Learn from Young People"},"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>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m up taking my early morning turn with puppy Bodhi and he\u2019s 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 \u201cDavid Sedaris\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I didn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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\u2019s going on in this culture \u2013 white, black, and all through the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>So I googled \u201cDavid Saderis\u201d 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 \u201cstadium pal\u201d please let me know if it works. Dogen had a lot to say about \u201ctoileting\u201d and this might add at least one chapter to the American Shobogenzo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-7259980136617540603?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=YBdymtyXt8Y I\u2019m up taking my early morning turn with puppy Bodhi and he\u2019s 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. 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