User talk:Mind meal/Sandbox26

Adding RZC

Added a bunch of stuff. I am still in heavy classes at school so I cannot devote too much time. I will do what I can if thats ok. I realize the page is heavy on the Philip Kapleau side but that is my forte and I think it will be great when we can round this all out with other teachers/schools/lineages. I will also fill in some stuff about Tony Packer, and Bodhin Kjolhede. Just probably not for a month or so. If someone wants to put some in that would be great too. I also would like to make a permanent link for the Rochester Zen Center to equal RZC because its too wordy to write that out and seeing it 100 times on a page gets annoying. Please let me know how to link that way if possible. This can be a great Western Zen article some day. It is a pleasure to help. Golgofrinchian (talk) 20:00, 13 February 2008 (EST)

Timeline

I moved the timeline to a seperate article. Please fill in with your expertise.Golgofrinchian (talk) 17:00, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Writeup

I redid the Kapleau Yasutani thing. It is my write-up but the last paragraph about heirs is from Zen Master Who?. You can move things around and other formatting you think. Its your baby so have at it with regard to where you want it to go. Golgofrinchian (talk) 03:06, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Nice job at condensing the info. I further edited it to try to incorporate it into the flow of the article, which I would like to see broken up into periods rather than persons. Otherwise we would have literally hundreds of sections for all the persons who helped promote Zen in the US. Good work! Oh, I almost forgot—Do you have a reference for the Yasutani quote? (Mind meal (talk) 03:56, 15 February 2008 (UTC))

I will have to look into it. I think I saw it in the book:[1] This book is anecdotal stories about Kapleau. It was written about him and not by him, odd title.

I will be at sesshin the next few days. I will check in when I am back. BTW- excellent job with smoothing out what I wrote. I used to be a technical writer and am used to editing of my work. It flows much better now, thank you.Golgofrinchian (talk) 14:30, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Photos of Kapleau & RZC

Mm, I am doing a sculpture of Kapleau for the Zen center. Its still rough but I intend on updating the photo as I go so if you leave the link you will eventually have the bronze one in the RZC and the entire pic will be my work on my camera. Also I will ask Roshi to release some of the centers photos if possible. The bust is a gift to the center, but maybe they will allow me to put the pictures up here and give me some better info for our articles. They are very wonderful people and I can only guess at what may have happened with the permissions from before. There has been some changing of the guard there and maybe that caused the mix-up. Golgofrinchian (talk) 13:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)