day 235: moving on and zen

concepts:

• logistics and scheduling

lessons:

• bagua elbow basics

today was largely a tune-up for people going to the Las Vegas tournament (next weekend). as a result, a fair chunk of time today was spent discussing logistics and scheduling issues in terms of rides and hotel rooms to and from Vegas. we also found out that Viet is going away for a year for a post-baccalaureate program, so we had some farewells there as well.

bagua elbow basics

we dedicated the majority of time to finishing off the moving basics, with everyone going through what we remembered and Sifu showing us off the remainder. Sifu says he wants us to begin the elbow form next week. of course, after we had wrapped up the moving basics i suddenly realized there was 1 that we had not done, but by that time class had finished and everyone was already leaving.

that was pretty much it for today. i had no kyudo today, since this was the weekend of the seminar and class had been cancelled to allow people to go. Sensei did hold a zen retreat at his temple for the weekend, but i ended up going to just the Friday night session. i've never been to a zen service of any kind, so this was an educational experience, and definitely a very rewarding one in terms of spiritual fulfillment. i may go again.