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...come from Harvard for the weekend, on the coattails of Adams House Senior Tutor Janet A. Viggiani, whose brother is ordained as a Dai Bosatsu monk. Most were Religion concentrators, but a few of us were just trying to find Enlightenment for a weekend before midterms. We came fairly close...
Everything is relative, and Dai Bosatsu Zendo, relative to everything, is incredible. Six hours from Memorial Church rests a very different center of religion, isolated in the Berkshires (and yet conveniently located 30 miles from Woodstock). The monastery has the simple beauty of classical Japanese style, except that it snuggles against a pristine New York lake and L.L. Bean rivals the soy bean for appreciation on cold winter nights...
Serenity, for instance. An idea easily entertained by Harvard folk, and then dropped when midterms arrive (last week being the most recent, painful example). But the monks and the residents of Dai Bosatsu live in a relatively serene state, buoyed by tranquil post-meditation moments and long yoga stretches...
These rituals serve Dai Bosatsu residents dually. By giving both a directed regime to follow and an opportunity for unhampered reflection, they allow one to nurture the golden moments of silence, the fleeting embodiment of stillness, which is so lacking in daily life...
...easier to find an "inner calm" hundreds of miles from textbooks, tens of miles from towns with dots on maps. I was lucky enough to enjoy the beauty and the serenity of Dai Bosatsu Zendo. I went for a walk around the lake in a post-storm mist that hung like cobwebs in the air. It was as still as zazen. I imagined it in winter, the surrounding mountains a crown of white, the water solid and still. The Zen of Ice-skating? Sounds like...