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...Downing begins in 1961, when Shunryu Suzuki, a quirky but brilliant monk in Japan's Soto Zen lineage, hung out a shingle in one of San Francisco's bohemian neighborhoods offering instruction in zazen. Unlike Rinzai Zen, which uses intellectual methods like koans to free the mind from itself, Soto Zen has few features that are susceptible to coffeehouse dilettantism. Zazen, the Soto school's central practice, is a unique method of wordless, thoughtless "just sitting," in which the mind seeks to become as empty as a puddle reflecting a cloudless sky. It is demanding, frustrating...
Freshman Mike Soto placed 14th and junior Derek Lindblom finished 15th. Both advanced to the semi-final round. Sophomore Steve Milder was eliminated in the second round but ended up 16th...
...Soto and sophomore foil Liz Blasé just missed out on making the finals and may be considered for wild card berths...
Among the fencers, freshman Mike Soto stood out in epee, winning 3-0 against Penn...
...Mike Soto especially has shown himself to be a very good fencer,” Wollenberg said. “Perhaps, right now, our best fencing is epee...