  home        what's new        bibliography        
interviews        stories     and more if you look around
11-10-06 - updated from 1/16/02 - from Steve Mandelker in
Bangkok, Thailand. I just replaced the old message with the new
(except for the first paragraph which I kept). I always tell
people they can edit what they say here.  - DC.  Gotta question
for you even though all that expensive Zen training you got has
been utterly wasted on you. Might have been addressed in your
recent book (Crooked...), but I think I missed it...I only had
time for a quick reading due to my professional duties here in
Bangkok, Thailand.  Why has so much manual labor become a
prerequisite for serious Zen study at Green Gulch/Tassajara
(which I don't even know whether you're affiliated with
anymore)? Traditionally, couldn't you enter intensive training
for several months in Zen without first doing months of manual
labor and very limited amounts of zazen (which is how they
appear to have it?)   DC answered: Interesting questi