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sugin
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Posts : 43 Join date : 2010-06-15
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 7/6/2010, 8:47 pm | |
| I often kept a journal while visiting at the Abbey and it brings back to me the feelings I had at that time. It is not profound, actually pretty mundane, but yet in simple things we see the truth. So I will be brave and start with an entry which is a beginning....
--Arrived at Shasta Abbey at 2:15 P.M. We rang the buzzer and were greated and admitted. The beauty and the wonder of the place came back to me. I was in room 17 the same room as last time. J and I visited the new stupa. I should write down the inscriptions. It is now 3:50 and I am very sleepy. My room mate is V.
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Lise Admin
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Posts : 1431 Join date : 2009-11-08 Age : 50
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 7/6/2010, 11:04 pm | |
| I didn't know I still had these notes. This one had to be from one of my earliest stays at the Abbey. It's hard to remember now.
Early 2001:
''See! The wooden figure sings, and the stone maiden dances . . . this is my favorite line of the sutra.
I didn't do any better with the drum this morning. I am dreading the noise it makes. A chime or a bell would be better on the ears and nervous system.
I wish I knew when it was okay to talk. The monks seem to have different rules for that. Actually I would rather do my work in the kitchen without talking to anybody -- it's too confusing."
Hard to imagine that at one time, these were my biggest issues in a typical day at the Abbey --
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Lise Admin
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Posts : 1431 Join date : 2009-11-08 Age : 50
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: good memories 7/7/2010, 1:41 pm | |
| This one is also from early days in 2001, must have been summer:
"Noticing sounds this weekend. Wind in the treetops, birdsong, train whistles, the bell outside the dining hall, a broom swishing against the pavement. I could have sat for a long time this morning listening to the fountain outside the ceremony hall -- quiet splash & gurgles. It's getting hot early in the day."
I didn't journal for very long -- spent most of my free time reading. It's nice to have those few entries to look back on.
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sugin
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Posts : 43 Join date : 2010-06-15
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 7/7/2010, 2:17 pm | |
| "There have been forest fires to the West and Grants Pass to Shasta is blanketed in smoke. The air is warm but the heat is not oppressive. I spoke to my daughter at 4 pm. " "1:30 p.m. Monday Aug. 19. My Birthday! The last evening was very difficult. I felt stressed and anxious at the sitting (almost an anxiety attack). I kept thinking if I get through a few sittings it will be easier. I took 2 Tylenol PM before bed." Tuesday---" I slept well enough but the 5:20 bell is always a shock. I move in an automated fashion. The morning was cool and not too smokey yet. The sitting was long and difficult. What is the point??? Breakfast prep was enjoyable and I liked cleaning the celery, broccoli, cauliflower and pitting millions of plums. The kitchen people are: M., V., K., and Rev. Chosia and Rev. Serena." I bet you all are on pins and needles waiting for the next installment of the gripping account?? | |
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Lise Admin
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Posts : 1431 Join date : 2009-11-08 Age : 50
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 7/7/2010, 10:36 pm | |
| Only if you tell us something really outrageous, like, maybe you stayed up past Lights Out in order to read ![Shocked](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_eek.gif) or pretended to be singing those screechy Wesak carols when you weren't, cause you just didn't want to ![Rolling Eyes](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif) or got snarky with another lay person who was messing up your Community Work detail ![Mad](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_mad.gif) Not that I have done anything like that myself, 'cause I haven't. Really. I'll bet you have some tales to tell, Sugin. It's always the quiet ones. | |
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Robert Admin
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Posts : 103 Join date : 2010-08-27 Age : 50 Location : Durham
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 9/3/2010, 9:22 am | |
| It's always interesting to read what others write in their journals, the things everyone is thinking but daren't actually say out loud! I found an entry from August 2006, a month into my time at Throssel:
"Being a renewal day, I decided to walk to Allendale which is 6 1/2 – 7 miles each way. For the occasion, although walking along the road, I thought that boots would be a good idea. The only boots I have here are the new, industrial, work boots with steel toe, and yes, steel sole. The state of my feet tells the rest of the story; blisters on both soles and on the left heel, oh and pulled groin muscles due to the weight of them after sandals. Actually it was a lovely walk and a good distance. I went alone which was essential."
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sugin
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Posts : 43 Join date : 2010-06-15
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 9/3/2010, 10:54 am | |
| How is your time at Throssel Hole? I wonder how similar it really is to Shasta Abbey? I, also, enjoy the notes of others. | |
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Robert Admin
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Posts : 103 Join date : 2010-08-27 Age : 50 Location : Durham
![Personal Journal Entries...dare we? Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Personal Journal Entries...dare we? 9/3/2010, 12:42 pm | |
| As I've not been to Shasta, it's hard to say. I've heard that lay trainees are more involved at Throssel, attending the spiritual direction and renewal of vows ceremonies, but I really couldn't say beyond that. I doubt either place is "easy" to be at. | |
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