{"id":799,"date":"2009-11-23T08:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/11\/honored-teacher-azuma-ikuo-ros.html"},"modified":"2009-11-23T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:11:54","slug":"honored-teacher-azuma-ikuo-ros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/11\/honored-teacher-azuma-ikuo-ros.html","title":{"rendered":"Honored Teacher: Azuma Roshi"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I sat a short Zazenkai this weekend with my first teacher in Japan, Azumu Ikuo Roshi <\/b>(\u00e6\u009d\u00b1\t\u00e9\u0192\u0081\u00e9\u203a\u201e), a great Dogen scholar and former instructor at Soji-ji … now age 92 and sharp as a tack. Here he is Saturday, lecturing on Dogen as always …<\/p>\n

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\"Azuma<\/a><\/form>\n

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<\/i>He led the lay persons’ group there for many many years … I may not have stayed with this practice without him.
He was always so kind, down to earth.When I came here 20 years ago, my Japanese was pretty bad the first few years, and he lectured in Japanese … but always took time to summarize in broken English so I would get the gist.  <\/p>\n

It is wonderful when we can still have a chance to say ‘thank you’ to old teachers, or any of the other people who support each of us in this life<\/p>\n

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(Note: MONDAYS with TAIGU will be TUESDAY with TAIGU<\/u> this week) <\/b><\/div>\n
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(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;<\/u><\/div>\n
a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)<\/u><\/p>\n

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