Yesterday we got the pleasure of going to a Buddhist Zen Center. The Maria Kannon Center. this one is in Dallas so we had a long drive. It was a cute little area. We got there a little bit early, so we spotted a park. As Max Perry said, "Parks are more fun when your bigger,since when you were little you couldn't climb on what you wanted."
There was this guy giving us a funny look, we left. Then we went back to the zen center and went in. It was cool looking, there were these pillows against the wall along the entire room. She walked us through the steps of one form of meditation. We did chants, to me was kind of different, here is one of the chants, we spoke in a monotone voice. Verse of Purification:
All harmful karma ever committed by me since of old
On account of my beginningless, greed, anger, and ignorance,
Born of my body, mouth and consciousness
Now I atone it all.
(that was different, you had to be there)
I thought it was pretty cool, and they were nice enough to donate a book to our library.
posted by: Katelyn E. Vietti
You guys seem to have had a wonderful experience. Thank you to your sponsors, what you have learned this week is pretty tough to learn from a book in a classroom! Great job on the blog posts! - Mr. Richards
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