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On Sun., February 29, Domyo Dawn Sater was installed as Shuso (Chief Junior) for the next year. Domyo was ordained as a novice monk on March 2, 2001, after training as a postulant for one and one half years. Taking on the role of Shuso, which concludes with the Shuso Hossen ceremony in February 2005, will complete an important phase of her training as a Soto Zen Priest.
There was a lot of work finished in the last two months, primarily due to the Jukai sesshin, which provided both time and focused help from sesshin participants. The Dharma and Sangha houses underwent additional landscaping and planting, as well as general maintenance and improvements. New benches were constructed for the bookstore. A great deal of framing and drywall came out of the basement laundry room, merging the basement hallway and laundry room projects. We also cleaned and sharpened our tools! Looking ahead, we plan to move the basement stairs to meet city code, while extending the small mudroom at the west basement entrance of the Dharma House. The intention is to make the space as efficient as possible while meeting code. Other projects include securing the house to the foundation and the chimneys to the roof
There will be a naming ceremony for member Jerome Madden's son - Heinrich Madden - on Sun., May 30. Faddah Yuetsu Wolf has sold his father's house and will be traveling to distant and exciting places for a few months before returning to Portland permanently. Jody Shintai Dungay, another world-traveling member, continues to live and work in Amberg, Germany, where she moved one year ago. The Center often receives postcards from various European capitals and seaports, where Shintai frequently meets and practices with established Zen sanghas (these postcards are posted on the bulletin board at the Dharma House). Imagine doing Oryioki while reciting the meal chant in German!
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The newsletter is assembled and edited during the first week of every other month. Submissions are very welcome: short or long articles, which can focus on any point of practice, including travel, research or personal experience; descriptions of events we've had; the occasional poem or drawing. We do not print anonymous articles. Please submit typed submissions if at all possible, and by e-mail if you can, to: newsletter@Dharma-Rain.org. (This saves the newsletter staff from having to re-type the work.) If you have questions, contact Choten at 503/234.3813.
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Sign-up forms are available at the Center; just ask one of the priests or Board members, or call or drop us a line. When you complete the form, just return it to the Center with a voided personal check and sit back and relax; well take it from there.
A small, portable CD player; a sprinkler; a garden hose spray nozzle; and a chain saw
Thanks To:
Thank you to all who give and thereby ensure the stability and growth of the Center. Gassho to Anne Suiho Jensen for vanilla; Matthew Stewart for glasses and cookies; Rich Mackin for lettuce, bread, juice and asparagus; Nancy Gonzalez for veggies; Marta Farris for cookies; Sara and Tom Kosho for broccoli; Bob and Carlene Orman for cookies, cheese, CD cases, flowers and a Jizo book; and to anyone we may have missed.
Photo taken at the exhibit of the Buddha's Relics.
STILL POINT edit of 1 May 2004
Edited for archive on June 30, 2004.
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