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Sitting Zazen all together online, and having a video ‘Zencast’, can present some technical conundrums sometimes.<\/p>\n

Zen teachers back in the 13th Century, for example, probably only had to face running out of ink for their writing brushes … while now we must ‘sit with’ the Koan<\/i> of JAVA script and browser conflicts. <\/p>\n

But the wonderful thing, truly, that Zen offers to all of us is this:Accept that computers, just like all of life, will not do what we wish all(or most) of the time. Go with the flow. Allow the computer to crashendless times … for it is all a perfect moment in time. “Be at one” with slowness and freezing … for a slow boot-up is an excellent opportunity for a moment of patient Zazen<\/i>.  Accept program conflicts as “just-what-they-are<\/i>” and allow them to be! Remember that the “Blue Screen of Death<\/i>” is beyondall thought of “life” and “death” … and that rebooting is a kind ofrebirth<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A monk asked Master J\u00c5\u008dsh\u00c5\u00ab, “Does a hard drive have Buddha nature”??<\/i><\/p>\n

So, it is not so much “frustrating”, as just what it is<\/span>.As opposed to cussin’ my computer … I have added the “Help Desk” folkat Ustream as the subject of my Metta<\/i> (Lovingkindness) Chanting … may they be ‘free of suffering … loving, grateful and kind ..<\/i>.’  It is a kind of ‘Beta Version<\/i> Metta Chanting<\/i>‘!!<\/div>\n

But, in any event, ‘Ustream’ <\/b>(the video system I have been using until today) seems to present some conflicts with ‘FLASH’ and certain browsers that results in crashing. To solve the problem, I will now try to experiment with switching to YouTube<\/b> (which seems more glitch free). I will still use Ustream for certain special events (like our longer ‘LIVE’ Saturday sittings and monthly Zazenkai<\/i>) because it has certain advantages.<\/p>\n

One issue with YouTube, however, for those folks ‘sitting-a-long<\/i>‘ is that there is a 10 minute time limit<\/b>. That means that, from now on, WE CAN START ZAZEN TOGETHER, and I will ring the beginning bells … BUT YOU MUST KEEP TRACK OF YOUR SITTING TIME<\/b>, and ring the ending bells yourself. Truly, Zazen is endless anyway! <\/p>\n

Let’s see if this works a bit better for most folks, and I apologize for any crashing if we need to use Ustream sometimes.    <\/p>\n

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