tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post5897357831890163144..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): spiritual yawwwwwninggenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-37265693897717575592013-10-30T00:20:10.938-04:002013-10-30T00:20:10.938-04:00This reminds me of a story Kyudo Roshi told during...This reminds me of a story Kyudo Roshi told during one of his informal talks. Among other topics that night, he had a few things to say about chanting. He told how he initially learned to chant. His grandmother taught him. She sat next to him with a chopstick and struck his head with the chopstick like his head was a makugyo. It was clear that he did not like the lessons, but he accepted it.<br /><br />Now it is easy to speculate was to why Kyudo stopped attending chanting services. Did he just decide to stop "enough already!" perhaps as a delayed reaction to grandma's methods? Was he actually too sick or weak to attend? Or did he see it as a way to ease in his heir apparent, Eizan Goto? Could it have been something else?<br /><br />Perhaps someone knows something a little more definitive<br />about this. I wonder if he instituted other changes as well during his tenure as abbot. Why did he make the change(s). Would I have liked the change? Would you? Would it matter?<br />Franknoreply@blogger.com