Soliciting the Readership

Dear Buddhoblogoshere, here is your opportunity to sponsor a skit (or another act) for our Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple Fundraiser Talent Show.  TONIGHT!  No Fooling!  $25 enters you in our raffle, but any amount would be appreciated.  


My acting debut:  The Oryoki Olympics: A dream for years, a fantasy, a source of uncontrollable, inappropriate giggling during Sesshin will finally be manifested in this lifetime, thanks to a few very good sports in the Sangha, and some fun times writing our script with a liberal sprinkling of chantbook references. 


There will also be a halftime show:  Zen cheerleaders.  Nuff said.  

While a lot of folks' extra funds have surely gone to the disaster in Japan (Mercy Corps is my personal fave), the Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple is a sweet bit of good news in the world.  A 100+ year old church that was about to go to auction, thanks to our previous fundraising efforts, we were able to buy it outright -- no mortgage.  Awesome!  Now with a much smaller bank balance, we have to fix it up.  There has already been quite a bit of fixing, and there's plenty more to do.  

The extra lot will be a garden available to all.

Amazing, the skills and talents and elbow grease that are being shared by Sangha members:  An electrician who is pretty much rewiring the place.  An H-VAC guy who is helping get us new furnaces and re-doing the ventilation.  Floors will be restored, siding will be placed... it is an adventure.  One that costs a little bit. 

A working furnace will be celebrated.

Working to restore it to its natural historic beauty.

The main altar will have this enso by Shodo Harada Roshi.  Stunning.  

Apparently this Talent Show will be video recorded.  Who knows, maybe I'll end up with the biggest donation -- in an attempt to keep the video under wraps!    


Thank You!
Bows,

Jomon