Catskills - Buddha's Rules

Day 2 - Morning Meditation
I dream of nothing – or almost nothing.  I recall a man in a dark room swinging a hammer, rhythmically, making a high pitch clang-clang-clang.  The camera moves in closer.  The man is hammering a large silver nail.  With each hit, sparks come off the nail but it doesn’t move.  Clang-clang-clang.  The man hammers harder and harder.  I wake up.

Catskills - Buddha's Rules

Day 1 of 3
Jean asked me to join her on a yoga and meditation retreat with classmates from her yoga studio. I thought about it for a moment and replied deviously “Yes, of course, as long as you sponsor me.” I was looking for an angle, trying to use her frugality against her. “Ok, no problem, it’s next month in the Catskills” she said, smiling. This failure to wiggle out is where my story begins. Fast forward six weeks and we’re on a three hour drive to a Japanese monastery in a remote area of the Catskills near Roscoe, NY. You read that right, a Japanese monastery – in the Catskills. Dai Bosatsu Zendo, as it’s formally known, was founded in 1976 on 150 acres of forest by a Japanese zen master. 

Brooklyn - US Open

Hooky at its Finest
The CFO scored front row tickets to today's US Open day session.  Never been so close.  That's my foot in the foreground and Novak Djokovich in the background.