MBZC thanks everyone for the wide variety of gifts we have received this year.Thank you to Nancy Brothers for her help in designing and financing the membership cards. Our appreciation to Steve & Jan Gazda for giving a 35mm camera, and to Sam Landsberger who gave the kitchen a food processor and a microwave oven. Linda Adams donated a sewing machine, and local ceramist, Eric Darrow gave a propane heater. making the sewing cabin a workplace for all seasons. Thank you to Tsuo Kohi and Jim Hallenbeck for their sarel donations. The flowers among the rock this spring are due to donations from Betty Barnett. Anthony Leitner. Constance Rails. and Ingrid Schwarzkopf. Finally, a special thanks to Leonard Cohen for all his generosity this winter.

Sincere thanks for your monetary donations:

• Jeanette Caress
• Barbara & LaVon Gentry
• Steve Sanfleld
• Centro Zen de Puerto Rico
• James H. Gordon
• Bill Stevens
• Kodo John Craig
• Noel Imparato
• Nancy Wing
• Rick Ellis
• Lawrence LaFlamme
  

Thanks to all who joined us during Winter Seichu:

• Catherine Alelytinas
• John McDougall
• Brian Cobb
• Oscar Moreno
• Leonard Cohen
• Ingrid Prinz
• Bob Cook
• Kaisa Puhakka
• Joni Cooke
• Allison Romberg
• Sogen Gaensslen
• Beth Schaefer
• Larry Gallagher
• Ingrid Schwarzkopf
  
  

• Blankets
• Carpet
• Towels & washcloths
• Books for our library
• Bulbs & shrubs
• Coffee maker
• Coffee bean grinder
• Decent furniture for cabins
  

If any sangha member has a suggestion for a project and would like to offer sponsorship for this project, please contact the Shika reg-jing your donation.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

June 20-July 1 Seminars on Buddhism at Bodhi Manda

July 5 MBZC Seichu begins

July 10-16 MBZC Dai-5C55hin

July 21 32nd anniversary of Joshu Roshi's arrival in U.S.

August 7-13 MBZC Dai-sesshin

September 4-10 MBZC Dai-sesshin

September 11 MBZC Seikan begins

September 24-30 Scheibbs, Austria Dal-sesshin

Oct. 30-Nov. 5 Rinzai-ji Dal-sesshin

The staff of MBZC looks forward to attending this years Seminars on Buddhism from June 20th-July 1st at Bodhi Manda Zen Center. The topic this year is Zen and Faith. Anyone interested in attending should contact:

Summer Seminar

P.O Box 36648

Albuquerque, NM 87176

Friends and supporters can actively participate in the development of the Zen Center by maintaining an annual membership. These important contributions enable us to continue our day to day operations. providing the sangha with an authentic and dependable place to practice. The following options are offered:

• Supporting Member: $50 per month
• General Member: $120 annually
• Associate Member: $60 annually (for dues paying members of other Rinzai-ji Zen Centers)
• Maling List: $10 annually
  

Membership includes:

• MBZC membership card
• All Zen Center mailings
• Reduced rates for Seichu & Dai-sesshin:
  
  
  

Supporting Members:

• Leonard Cohen
• Donna Cox
• Bill Flynn
• Jay Hershey
  
  

General Members:

• Randall Belford
• LaVon Gentry
• Constance Rails
• Harry Buzbuzian
• James Grubb
• Thomas Reynolds
• Robert Cooke
• James Hallenbeck
• Beth Schaefer
• Lon Crowell
• Mimie Langlois
• Bettie Spurrier
• Ian Dobson
• Mack Lindsey
• Laura Stone
• David Dyer, Jr.
• Roger Mack
• David Swenson
• Mark & Margaret Faurer
• Jim & Barbara Mulcahy
• Chico Wagner
• Shannon Ferreil
• Kaisa Puhakka
• Pat Yingst
• Thomas Yoneda
  

Associate Members

• Carol Alelyunas
• Hoko Marjorie Edgren
• Edgar Kahn
• Catherine Alelytmas
• Allyn Field
• Chris Phelan
• Rosalind Aller
• Paul Humphiles
• Stephen Slusher
  

1994 MBZC PRICES

Summer Seichu $1500
Members $1300

2 D-s. and seichu between $1000
Members $900

Seichuweek $175
Members $150

Dai-sesshin $325
Members $300

From a Teisho by Kyozan Joshu, Roshi. February 14, 1993, at MBZC Translated by Shinzen Young © 1994

Then the Master said: "Nowadays he who studIes Buddhadharma must seek true insight. Gaining true insight, he is not affected by birth-and-death, but freely goes or stays. He need not seek that which is excellent - that which is excellent will come of itself.

"Followers of the way, the eminent predecessors we have had from of old all had their own ways of saving people. As for me, what I want to point out to you is that you must not accept the deludeu views of others. If you want to act, then act. Don't hesitate.

"Students today can't get anywhere: what ails you? Lack offaith In yourself is what ails you."

(Rinzai Roku, Discourse X) Translated by Ruth F. Sasaki

[The] desire to destroy the wills of others, to break down the will of others so that you can aggrandize them to yourself, this is what in Buddhism we call conquest mentality. It is the exact opposite of self-extension, self-faith. Self-faith, self-extension. means that when you see the nail, you go to the world of the nail. when you see the ant, you go to the world of the ant, when you see the bird, you go to the world of the bird, when you see a human, you go to the world of the human.

The usual way that people are educated, however, is into a conquest mentality. They're educated to conquer the world and put It all Inside their hip pocket, to get it all for themselves. That's why we ask you to very carefully contemplate what this self Is. Consider carefully: am I working from a fixated self or am I working from a state of self-faith, self-extension from an unfixated self? If you fixate the self, then you'll have to flurry around, rush from here and there, to use the phrase of Rinzai.

This state of tumbling along in a bewildered way, this is what comes about through fixating the self, so you'll always feel that you missed the bus, that somebody else made it and that (you) didn't, that there's something wrong with the world, (you) just can't make it. But a person that understands self-extension, self-faith, a person that understands not fixating the self is too busy to be flurried. As soon asthey see a nail they become the nail, as soon as they see the bamboo, they become the bamboo. Whatever they see, they become. They're too busy to be in a hurry. . .

In any event, it is the situation of the self to have to make relationship with inside and outside. Inevitably, connection is made. So one cannot escape from this activity called making a connection, making relationship with father and mother. Inevitably one is at the mercy of the working, the activity of the father and mother. But if one is able to enter into complete relationship, then one will no longer be at the father and mother's mercy. In other words, one won't have to be under the control of life and death if one has completely made life and death one's content, what one is.

What Rinzai means by the phrase myriad of circumstances: circumstance means environment. The environment is inside and outside. in other words, life and death. As long as one is fixating oneself, one is under the control of life and death, at the mercy of life and death. If you don't freeze. if you don't solidify the self, then you no longer need to be at the mercy of the world of circumstances. So one will be led around by the myriad of circumstances because one is fixating the self, one is at the mercy of life and death. Then one starts to think, "Why can't I be free?' Freedom cannot happen as long as a person is solidifying a self. As I mentioned before, when one makes relationship, makes connection with father and mother, one has dissolved oneself and one is growing. This is what is meant by transformation. Transformation means to evolve. As long as one is continuing to fixate the self, one will always be at the mercy of life and death and one will never be able to experience freedom.

So if one wants to win for oneself the state called freedom. one has to do the activity called self-dissolution. You will be able to dissolve the self. Dissolving the self, you 'will manifest yourself as the world that you have been thinking about. So we cannot neglect this thing called making connection. making relationship:this is what we have to do to dissolve the self.

SEICHU is an extended training period conducted in the winter and summer months. The daily schedule inclused chanting, zazen, formal meals, and work.

Full Seichu...........$1500
Members.............$1300

DAI-SESSHIN is a week of intensive formal practice. It is held in silence with most of the day spent sitting zazen.

Dai-sesshin..........$325
Members..............$300

Dai-sesshins:

• July 10-16
• August 7-13
• September 4-10
  

MBZC (909)985-6410

On July 21, 1962 Kyozan Joshu Roshi arrived in the United States at the request of a sitting group in Gardena, California. The first zendo of Rinzal-ji was established in a garage. As interest grew the limitations of the zendo became apparent, and Cimaron Zen Center (now Rinzai-ji Zen Center) was purchased. Over the years the need for yet another center became clear. Attention this time was directed to the rural suburbs and outlying mountains of the Los Angeles basin, the intent being to establish a monastic style facility to compliment Cimarron Zen Center. An old boy scout camp located at 6500' on Mt. Baidy's rugged, pine laden slopes was purchased and through the painstaking efforts of our founders, began functioning in 1971.

Mt. Baldy Zen Center is currently staffed by four ordained monks of Joshu Roshi who maintain and oversee the center's daily demands in addition to fulfilling the officer positions as dictated by Japanese monastic tradition. MBZC provides the opportunity for interested students to immerse themselves in strict Zen practice on a year-round basis. Our yearly curriculum consists of summer and winter intensive training periods called seichus, and less formal training periods in between. MBZC accepts students and visitors year round, striving to provide a environment that is exceptionally conducive to spiritual growth.

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