{"id":271,"date":"2008-06-04T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2008\/06\/sitting-on-the-mekong.html"},"modified":"2008-06-04T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:22:00","slug":"sitting-on-the-mekong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2008\/06\/sitting-on-the-mekong.html","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on the Mekong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, <\/p>\n<p>I am on a boat trip down the Mekong, stopping in little towns along the way, so no internet here to put a camera on for a &#8220;Sit-a-Long&#8221;. After this, I am heading up to the mountains to stay a couple of days at the Zen Monastery in this movie. The film is not so interesting, but it will give a little flavor for the place &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid ... XTCA&amp;hl=en\">Truc Lam Monastery <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sitting there, I will be thinking of all of you. Or, better said, I will be non-thinking of all of you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sit-a-Longs&#8221; will resume as soon as I can &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gassho,  Jundo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am on a boat trip down the Mekong, stopping in little towns along the way, so no internet here to put a camera on for a &#8220;Sit-a-Long&#8221;. After this, I am heading up to the mountains to stay a couple of days at the Zen Monastery in this movie. 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