[Buddha-l] Oops--Article is from NY Times

[Franz Metcalf]

Stuart et al.,

Thanks so much, Stuart, for your informative though frankly  
dispiriting response.

As you wrote, and as is ever so, things are not as simple as we'd like  
them to be. I, for instance, would like Aitken Roshi to have been  
entirely blameless and courageous in this saga. Reading your post it  
seems that he was not exactly blameful, but not exactly courageous,  
either. So eyes eyes are opened just that little bit more. A slightly  
painful opening, but an opening nevertheless.

I feel for people like Kobutsu Malone and yourself who have devoted  
themselves to the tradition so much more deeply than I have and have  
had to face so intimately their disappointments with Shimano and other  
teachers. You honor the tradition by remaining such critical parts of  
it.

In gassho,

Franz