The Kind of Letter That Gets Posted

Hi Shokai!

just a quick note to let you know how much i enjoy your blog. i have been reading it for a couple of years now, and find it enjoyable and rewarding. yours is one of the best-looking blogs on the web, very clean and with eye-popping graphics. where the heck do you find them all? i would recommend your site to anyone just for the artwork alone, although your zen thoughts and instruction are also very good. i enjoy your thoughts so much more than -------- ---, for example, which is much more popular. (sometimes, i just don't know about ----, methinks he needs a lot more time on the cushion, although as you know that is pure projection on my part.)

anyway, just thought i would write you again and tell you how much i enjoy your site.

by the way...2 questions: what is your favorite electronica cd (i recommend ltj bukem's "journey inwards") and what is your favoriite john coltrane (i love the latest monk and coltrane live cd)

take care

gassho

Steve B.

Thank you for your kind and encouraging words, Steve. Gassho.

I read "-------- ---" quite regularly, and actually have no problem with that blog. That's why I keep a link to it over here on my sidebar. ---- has a unique voice, and the dharma may sound strange when expressed in that unique voice but like everything else in the universe, it's still the dharma.

And since you asked, for the past year or so I've been listening to a lot of Pete Namlook electronica, although my favorites are probably the far less prolific Fila Brazilia and Zoviet France.

And I can always listen to Coltrane's "My Favorite Things."