Category Archives: Travel

One more in a series of random snapshots from my October 2011 trip to China and Thailand. Following adventures at the Fourth and Fifth Ancestors’ temples and the Luhua Nunnery in Hubei Province, my tour group took off for Anhui … Continue reading →

One in a series of random snapshots from my October 2011 trip to China and Thailand. I was sent to support business meetings in Beijing and that was my first week in China, including some local sightseeing with colleagues.  My … Continue reading →

Greetings from Koh Samui, Thailand!  I’ve spent the last two and a half weeks in China and could have been blogging my way through the countryside (Shundo says I should write more, and I agree) but entering China is like … Continue reading →

I was expecting to write about sesshin, a five-day meditation retreat that happened some weeks ago here at City Center.  But I had trouble achieving a useful meta-position from which to write about it, because this sesshin was personally rather … Continue reading →