Thursday, August 02, 2007
Zen-like Atlanta
Atlanta comes a little closer to Enlightenment with a ceremony to initiate the city's first official Zen master on Friday night.
It's a private function at the Soto Zen Center where Michael Elliston will become a Zen master -- one of only 80 in the US and 1,000 in the world.
He studied this Japanese form of Buddhism for more than 40 years to achieve his priestly status. He founded the Soto Center in 1977 and served as an abbot since then.
"Silence in Zen is not the absence of sound, but silence is in the sound," he tells the AJC.
In other news, a good headline was reported: Atlantan Opens Jamaican Restaurant in China. ¶ 1:21 AM
It's a private function at the Soto Zen Center where Michael Elliston will become a Zen master -- one of only 80 in the US and 1,000 in the world.
He studied this Japanese form of Buddhism for more than 40 years to achieve his priestly status. He founded the Soto Center in 1977 and served as an abbot since then.
"Silence in Zen is not the absence of sound, but silence is in the sound," he tells the AJC.
In other news, a good headline was reported: Atlantan Opens Jamaican Restaurant in China. ¶ 1:21 AM
