Welcome to my new webpage. Since a lot has changed in the past few years, this site needed some revision. Go here for some of my favourite places on the Internet and some of my recent musings.
This is a symbol of Buddhism. As many of you know, I studied many kinds
of meditation. Currently I am reciting the kwan-se-um-bo-sal mantra as a kind of Zen
(Korean Son) hwadu, or "koan". I only meditate maybe fifteen minutes a
day. So many people have cancer these days I also wonder about meditation
and healing. I am working on a webpage for Lopon Ugyen, a Tibetan
teacher who lives in Nepal.
I am still doing Tai chi, this time on weekends in Dundurn
Park, Hamilton Ont., with an elderly Chinese community, and some crazy
westerners like me. That picture there is Mr. Lee Shui Park, who was the
teacher of my first tai chi teacher, Alan Weiss. No more heavy martial
arts for me.
Today's date is March 14, 2003. There might be a Toronto Raptors basketball game, my break from a grinding routine as a step-father, husband, and research ethics officer at McMaster university. We also enjoy watching ice skating and the current fad is "America's Funniest Home Videos." Those are really gut wrenching funny!
Living in Korea was great and I like to keep in touch with the great fellow ex-pats I met over there. Frank M. Tedesco is back in the United States with his Korean family after God or Buddha knows how long living there. Robert Koehler just finished is MA in Korean Studies and continues to teach English, this time in Kwangju. We'd like to hear more from him too.
So,
anyway, I will do what I can to make a better webpage. Until next time.
Be well!