Posts made in April, 2012

Branching Moon Sesshin Teisho’s Available

Posted by on Apr 21, 2012 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Branching Moon Sesshin Teisho’s Available

Jack Duffy’s sesshin teishos are now available on on mountinlamp.org. If folks only have time to listen to one, please start with the talk “On Precepts” Please send comments as I am re-working some of the ideas in there. Warmly, Jack

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The Flip Side of Camp Indianola

Posted by on Apr 20, 2012 in Poems | Comments Off on The Flip Side of Camp Indianola

Stare at a wall long enough and it reveals itself. The Flip Side of Camp Indianola (during sesshin) Doors open themselves and shut, invisible fingers rattling the knobs, the opposite of “good” children, unseen but heard. The giant fireplace of stones, islands in the rough lagoons of mortar. Faces rising from the rocks– a British colonial in Kenya, thickly mustached, sherry-reddened nose; a buzzard’s gaping jaw; Saint Theresa in a sad but fearful vision, dark eyes and the open “O” of her mouth emerging from the slant of a great ape’s skull. In the...

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