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December 20, 1998

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ORIYOKI
- The New Vegetarian Epicure Bushy's current favorite cookbook.

SUSHI
- Here's how Bushy got fast hands when he played Wing Chun and discovered that "mindful" does not mean slow.

FEASTING WITH FRIENDS
- "So, how 'bout those sessions you're always going off to? What is it? Some kind of cult?"

DESSERT
- Cloud Cap Inn

HEARD AT TABLE
- A couple of definitions of Zen.

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The food from The New Vegetarian Epicure is so satisfying. Even a cannibal like Bushy can go for days without a thought of a meaty meal. Apple - Walnut Stuffing! Ooooh!

amazon.com Book Description
Anna Thomas, author of the best-selling The Vegetarian Epicure, which became the bible of vegetarian cooks in the seventies and remains a classic, now returns with an exuberant new cookbook that reflects the way we live and eat today. The 66 menus are geared to busy, health-conscious families who are drawn to good fresh foods and lighter fare, filled with the pungent ethnic flavors that Anna Thomas loves.
Here are more than 325 recipes for every occasion, from seasonal family meals and little dinner parties to picnics and holiday feasts.

Read more reviews or buy it at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679765883/hwy50zenstop

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The Zen Way to the Martial Arts
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140193448/hwy50zenstop) by Taisen Deshimaru, Nancy Amphoux (Translator)

A fellow traveler writes:

To my knowledge this is the only modern book written by an actual Zen Master about the martial arts. Most books are by martial artists writing about Zen, a subject in which they are often lacking in actual practice. Taisen Deshimaru was one of the great Zen masters to teach in the west and the teacher of several great marital arts masters. This book is essential for any serious student of either discipline.

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Several people have recommended THIS VERY MOMENT -- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM AND ZEN FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS has a great book to give to your "non-zen" friends and family to help them understand what it is that we do. The author, James Ford, was recently named a California Diamond Sangha teacher by John Tarrant Roshi. James Ford is also the minister of the Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Chandler, Arizona, USA.

THIS VERY MOMENT: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558963472/hwy50zenstop

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Cloud Cap Inn
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Mt. Adams comes forth.
Bold.

Mt. Hood in cloud skirts
Flashes.

Mt. Fuji
Stands up and dances!

- SageBush Monkey
Tilly Jane Camp at the foot of Elliot Glacier
Summer '96

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Zen as in: refined sensibility associated with objects, expensive but not showy, full of verve and spontaneity, elegant, spiritual, practical, marketable, and chic. Something incomprehensible, but probably profound.
- Corp Marketing

Donkey shit is like horse shit.
- Wu Tsu from the commentary on Yun Men's Cake
Blue Cliff Record Case 77

The commentary explains that Wu Tsu's words are "Going direct to the root source, as the Buddhas have sealed -- picking through leaves and searching through twigs I cannot do."

These old boys are "far beyond delusive thinking" (to borrow a phrase from the Heart Sutra).

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