Posted Thu 12 Dec 2010 (1:30 PM PST): Events and writings are now being posted to http://forgetzen.posterous.com.

Posted Thu 15 Apr 2010 (11:05 AM PDT): Regular Wednesday meetings have been cancelled. Check this website or sign up for the email list to be notified of upcoming events on a case-by-case basis.

Posted Wed 24 Mar 2010 (7:45 AM PDT): Wednesday sitting is still on tonight, but I (Sam) am at the end of a cold, so you might want to avoid me!

Posted Thu 14 Mar 2010 (11:48 AM PDT): Refer to home page events section for new Wednesday schedule.

Posted Thu 23 Feb 2010 (11:48 PM PST): The next Wednesday talks are The Waters of March on 24 Feb, Como la Flor on 3 Mar, and Being Love on 10 Mar.

Fri 12 Feb 2010 (9:48 PM PST): We will meet as usual on Wednesday 17 February, except that instead of a talk, we will do some work to prepare for sesshin, which starts the next day.

Mon 8 Feb 2010 (11:45 PM PST): The next Wednesday talk is Foundation for Transformation on 10 Feb.

Tue 26 Jan 2010 (10:15 PM PST): The next two Wednesday talks, continuing the theme of engaged Buddhism, are The Life of Wonhyo on 27 Jan and Terms of Engagement on 3 Feb.

Tue 12 Jan 2010 (8:55 AM PST): The next two Wednesday talks, related to engaged Buddhism, are Groundwork on 13 Jan and Ox 10 on 20 Jan.

Tue 22 Dec 2009 (12:30 AM PST): Published The Way of Water Mixing With Water and Working With the Mind—Shenpa.

Fri 18 Dec 2009 (10:40 PM PST): Sat 19 Dec 2009 (1:00 AM PST): Published First Talk, Valentine’s Story, and The Way of Water and Ice.

Wed 16 Dec 2009 (7:00 PM PST): Reorganized the site.

Fri 27 Nov 2009 (11:00 AM PST): Mailing list moved to the Clothespin Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clothespin/.

Sun 22 Nov 2009 (9:40 AM PST): Added events into February 2010. Note that two Wednesday meetings have been cancelled: 25 Nov and 16 Dec, and one, 23 Dec, has been preempted by the holiday party, open to all, that we are hosting at our house.

Mon 16 Nov 2009 (7:37 PM PST): Added a discussion of goals to the Mentoring section.

Sat 7 Nov 2009 (11:07 PM PST): Extensive edits and addtions to focus on the Zen group and its mission. Edits were made to the main page, Sam’s biography, and Zen Experiment. A Vision section was added on the main page. The Formal Zen Training section was replaced by Mentoring with Sam Gabriel.

Mon 2 Nov 2009 (11:22 AM PST): There will be no meeting Wednesday 16 December 2009.

Sat 31 Oct 2009 (2:38 PM PDT): The talk on Wednesday 11 Nov, "The Joy", is a part of sesshin (our Zen retreat). All are welcome to attend, but note that the start time is 6:45 PM instead of the usual 7:30 PM.

Sat 31 Oct 2009 (2:38 PM PDT): The next two regular Wednesday talks are "Close to the Heart" on Wed 4 Nov and "Disarmed and Dangerous" on Wed 18 Nov.

Sun 25 Oct 2009 (11:18 PM PDT): The next two talks are "Living Large" on Wed 28 Oct, and "Close to the Heart" on Wed 4 Nov.

Fri 23 Oct 2009 (5:15 PM PDT): The title of the Wed 28 Oct talk is "Living Large".

Fri 16 Oct 2009 (6:45 PM PDT): Many new entries in our Readings section.

Mon 12 Oct 2009 (3:30 PM PDT): The Heart Sutra is now in our Readings section.

Mon 12 Oct 2009 (2:15 PM PDT): Discussion on the theme of the upcoming sesshin, including talk schedule, is in A Journey of a Thousand Moths.

Sun 11 Oct 2009 (9:45 PM PDT): Wed 21 Oct talk announced.

Sam Gabriel, San Diego, CA
http://home.roadrunner.com/~clothespin
sam_gabriel@yahoo.com