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...Joeri Schreurs tickles palates at this venue - tucked away in the Renaissance Koh Samui Resort & Spa, tel: (66-77) 429 300 - with modern European cuisine that emphasizes fresh herbs. Ask for the local lobster carpaccio and a table with a good view of the bay. The ambience is romantic. ZAZEN: Of Belgian and Italian descent, chef Walter Andreini worked his way across Asia before ending up at this stylish venue, tel: (66-77) 425-085. The fine-dining restaurant of a resort of the same name, Zazen serves fusion cuisine, imaginatively presented and using mostly organic ingredients. Try the five...
...will greet the crowd with their rock-injected modern classical tunes at 11:15. T.T. the Bear’s Place. Tickets available at the door or through Ticketmaster. $9. (KF)Immortal Technique and The Foundation. Leedz Entertainment presents an exciting night of hip-hop that also features Elemental Zazen and Exposition. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available from the Middle East box office or through Ticketmaster. $15 in advance, $20 date of show. Tickets from 10/18 postponement will be honored. (PRC) Monday, Nov. 21Tides, 27, Pelt, and Earth. WZBC’s Void Expressions presents Seattle...
...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...
Every morning at 4:55, Egyoku Nakao, 48, head priest at the Los Angeles Zen Center, dons the golden brown robes of her station and presides over 33 students engaged in Zazen, Zen's painstaking sitting meditation. Her authority, like that of hundreds of senseis before her, is absolute; a student would no more contradict her than question the break of day. A few hours later, however, the Japanese-Portuguese American slips into civilian clothes and rearranges the meditation cushions for an innovation called a Practice Circle, where the talk is free and her view is not privileged. "The center...
Meanwhile, the good people of alt.politics.clinton still appear to be divided on almost all issues concerning our 42nd president, but over at alt.music.pearl-jam there was a consensus growing that the correct lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter had been found. Things seemed calm at alt.philosophy.zen, one discussion of zazen culminating with advice from a user going by the name Sleater, "You need only listen to the whisper in your own heart. My brain is only a reflection of yours...