by Sangha News editor | Jul 27, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
Caren at Midlife Monkeygirls remembers David Coady as a ‘dharma tennis’ partner and reflects on the allure of the idea of suicide: David and I played tennis a few times last summer. It was there, on the tennis court, down at Dolores Park in the Mission, on...
by Sangha News editor | Jul 26, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
Brad Warner tries to insult suicide, and reflects on the life and death of David Coady: I’m not exactly sure where I first met David Coady. It was probably at the San Francisco Zen Center during one of the times I gave a talk there. But I do clearly remember the first...
by Sangha News editor | Jul 25, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
By christopher j pinney I met Dave when I was fourteen. We had both gone out for the high school tennis team, and quickly bonded over our mutual dislike of the coach; a strange unpleasant man with Krakatoan intensity. To be fair, ...
by Sangha News editor | Jul 24, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
A lovely, funny, tender remembrance of David in the open thread for David, by Shinzan Dainin Trevor Maloney: We also liked to pretend that the colander in the kitchen was the Starship Enterprise, and we’d sing the Star Trek theme whenever we used it. Yup, David and I...
by Sangha News editor | Jul 24, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
At the close the Community Meeting Friday evening — for David, for us, in David’s memory — Renshin Bunce read outloud the poem David had composed and read for the closing ceremony of practice period at Tassajara in 2007, when he was benji and she was shuso....