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04/03/2006 Archived Entry: "David Chess Sits Zazen"

Says David Chess, "I tell ya, there's nothing like being woken up at 4:25am by a guy coming up the stairs ringing a handbell, when you've been kept up most of the night by your roommates' snoring. It's wonderful!" He gives a detailed rundown of his adventures at Zen Mountain Monastery this past weekend. "Once we were in the zendo and getting settled, [the leader] said something amusing about the moths and said 'let's get the screens up today' or something like that; and later on I heard one of the students or monks or something say 'yeah, he was looking right at me when he said it, but they're not going to get put up today and he's going to be mad at me!' or other heartwarming words to that effect."

(tags: DavidChess, ZenMountainMonastery)