by Sangha News editor | Jul 27, 2011 | For David Coady, In Memoriam
On Saturday, Abbot Ryushin Paul Haller dedicated his Dharma Talk to reflecting on loss — on the loss of David Coady and the impact of that loss on the community, on community and the practice speaking truth. Here are some excerpts: Every life is precious. Every life...
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
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....
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...