ceoln<p>Let's see. One thing I haven't talked about much is my <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zen</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Buddhist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhist</span></a> involvement.</p><p>Which is entirely appropriate :) since my favorite phrase in this area is "language can't express truth"; but we muddle through anyway.</p><p>I have a (by some standards, nonexistent) <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/shikantaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shikantaza</span></a> (and so technically <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/soto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soto</span></a> I guess, and I do adore ol' <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Dogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dogen</span></a>) practice, where I sit for some amount of time, watching thoughts and phenomena arise and dissipate, with no particular aim. This is, like, the best thing in the world!</p><p>I took part in r/zen for awhile, but it was (and maybe still is) a permanent trashfire dominated by a small group of people with their own bizarre ideas about Zen and an endless appetite for pointless conflict, which is sort of sad.</p><p>I don't have a local (or online) <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/sangha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sangha</span></a>, really. I've done a couple of two or three day retreats at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ZMM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZMM</span></a> , and they were great.</p><p>But mostly I just exist, to the limited extent that those words have any meaning. :)</p><p>Willing and even eager to discuss all this sort of thing with anyone here who is interested!</p>