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<blockquote data-quote="KitanaVorr" data-source="post: 746701" data-attributes="member: 9167"><a href="http://members.aol.com/kitanavorr/cosmos.ram" target="_blank">Horin-ji Temple</a><a href="http://members.aol.com/kitanavorr/cosmos.ram" target="_blank">New Kamakura City on Mars</a>After the prostrations, everyone settled back for the beginning of the zazen, the sitting meditation that was the hallmark of Zen Buddhism.&nbsp; After about ten minutes, the abbot began to walk around the people meditating with his nice four-foot long paddle.&quot;Concentrate!&quot; the abbot called out as he passed by a few.&nbsp; &quot;Sit straight!&quot; he reprimanded Vincent.&quot;Erase all thoughts from your mind!&quot; he shouted at an older woman in her seventies who cowed so deeply her nose touched the floor.Then his stick began to slap against some worshippers backs while he rattled off more orders while the sounds of the gong echoed over the room.A warning tap touched Thalessa on the shoulder which instinctively made her pull it up and then the paddle came smacking down on her back, smarting fiercely.&nbsp; The tap was obviously intended to put her on her guard so that her shoulder blade would not be shattered, the humanity in the formalized violence of thousands of year religion.OOC: THAL, VIN, BOB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KitanaVorr, post: 746701, member: 9167"] [url=http://members.aol.com/kitanavorr/cosmos.ram][i]Horin-ji Temple New Kamakura City on Mars[/i][/url] After the prostrations, everyone settled back for the beginning of the [i]zazen[/i], the sitting meditation that was the hallmark of Zen Buddhism. After about ten minutes, the abbot began to walk around the people meditating with his nice four-foot long paddle. "Concentrate!" the abbot called out as he passed by a few. "Sit straight!" he reprimanded Vincent. "Erase all thoughts from your mind!" he shouted at an older woman in her seventies who cowed so deeply her nose touched the floor. Then his stick began to slap against some worshippers backs while he rattled off more orders while the sounds of the gong echoed over the room. A warning tap touched Thalessa on the shoulder which instinctively made her pull it up and then the paddle came smacking down on her back, smarting fiercely. The tap was obviously intended to put her on her guard so that her shoulder blade would not be shattered, the humanity in the formalized violence of thousands of year religion. OOC: THAL, VIN, BOB [/QUOTE]

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