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This is Richard Baker reading a letter. Excluded from batch.

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c'mon
he recently
as you may have already heard somebody's
going to write you
during which we tried to
imagine what kind of relationship to zen center you would most like and be most beneficial to you
everyone here would like it very much if there would be some way which you could
join our practice
leading a session leading sessions leading a practice grid
teaching us
possibly still have your coming
still the possibility of you're coming still to this
winter spring back to screwed
was discussed but the everyone felt that maybe
that you would prefer to be
in minnesota this time and not have to come out here
so unless you're
especially willing
and would like to come out here for a months or few weeks this practice period
we're intending to
finish it
it seems to be
finish it were intending me
to find a way we're intending to find a way to
complete it
he even though i'm only able to be here about seven or eight weeks of the twelve weeks it's
seem to be going okay
great
a great many other alternatives were discussed or next fall next winter
practice periods
the pasco if you're coming for
a session
and then give a special series of lectures on don't know
honey subject tend to do
in the city for three weeks or months
and also we talked to period and also we talked about
the fact that maybe you would like to go to japan for vacations your family and and be able to bring your
wife and children to and and not be
not find it necessary to scheme
and build have the freedom to stay in real cans and
this
this is your houses of your thousand homes of your relatives
of your family i turn to too crowded already
we would like to give you that kind of vacation to japan
if you want
when when you want
certainly
which are so many years without ever bring your family back to japan
we would really enjoy helping you do that
somebody even thought you might prefer to go to kenya and if you prefer to go to india
we give you a vacation we'd help me to
to view a vacation or months in india she wanted
anyway all of this new career
sparing anyway all of this comes out of the very end
deep gratitude insensitive to everything you've done for us
that you are zen center even that you are
still that you are sense and or even if you're in minneapolis who can skip from us completely
and comforting and comes from
a deep
love for you
hey
i hope them
your center is going well i would very much like to visit you sometime

what we seem to be in zen center seem to be in pretty good shape
the students are taking on a great deal of responsibility which is necessary for me to take care of
zen center
and relieving me of a lot of thing so
i'm leaving me of a lot of responsibilities
period
ha
ginny and i are well we both had the flu which is still hanging on
but
no
we're fine
we fixed up kevin five right next to her
this cabin does her you and i have used so that it has a rocha and
is
very beautiful
an improvement over this way and we fixed it up as for your kevin
when you come
the two cabins will be connected by a small
covered
walkway and
actually neither one
you can use continues either one you prefer when you're here
if we're if you have you do find it possible to lead practice perry
wishing you well in this new year
affectionately
richard baker
hamlet center and guess it's okay

not just signed my name dick
thank you to sleep

dear houston

dear houston says to used in smith at him
in massachusetts
man mit
senate to his home address
dear houston i have here
my hand see
in my hand a buddhist bible
like guides a buddhist time i
course had heard about the book for many years
and never really looked at
cut the new beacon press paperback condition the library
some months ago and just today to cut down from from the zen center library
and just now took a town and found that you wrote the introduction
very beautiful introduction
and very accurate
after
the lucy just say very beautiful election then
don't say a very accurate
i'll say they both an election period than say
the feeling of
dwight gutter it comes through
throughout the book is really wonderful
i would like to know more about him
help
i run this information about him

i met miss being just an aside and you put i met a very interesting woman recently named blanche matthias who was a friend of roofed fuller at the time she
came had lunch with her at a time
was friends with ruth fuller
saki
before she
when did you pan
and blanche had lunch with her one day matches was a friend of
follow krishnamurti for many years and
a theosophist before that
had blanche and will fuller that time
would have the time comments after for had lunch maybe hurt fuller made me
i don't put at that time put your fuller the as if come a or as her maiden name
much may have had a first husband named fuller
they had lunch together in chicago and
and ruth asked blanche is she
knew anything about studying buddhism in japan and and blanche introduced her at that time too many mcgovern who would have been ordained in taiwan
kinda
he was a professor college there in the midwest i forget
hey close friends
you always have such a completely accurate
understanding of buddhism
that i am surprised when you say something like you have some doubt about the and not the doctrine a a t t
for doubt beyond that she's a doctrine itself
ha
period certainly your
quotations
you're certainly your comparisons
from current
freud high degree t i g g g here cert and
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her prior could be
hello
could be as presented in your introduction statements of
good is
the new paragraph i
notice in the book that your introduction is copyrighted by you and i don't know if we
copywriting the preface to than mind beginner's mind
to you we just sent it on and number so i love if you want that done please let us know and i'll you know when the paperback will come out but i think and to see has written a letter asking a it
come out
and if we what we find out we let you know
cook is a
article
closed as a column by nicholas van husband who i brought to meet you a note that might interest you you and i have become very good friends in the last year or so and
he has a great and to buddhism more
should i say
he finds his way of solving problems and coming
two
ah
very deep functional understanding of the world
corresponds to buddhism
his years in solitary were now
where shares in solitary
of course has contributed
is
to contribute to the police process
the buddhist process in his thinking

new paragraph still i look forward to seeing you
sincerely richard baker habit
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very much for your letter
i agree with you completely
we don't want nie especially don't want to get involved in
continue or fundraising
period
have you know this year we would have been almost completely self reporting was very little need of outside support
if we hadn't
ah
decided it was important to buy green gulch
there was no doubt in my mind that
green gulch is an essential part of the overall form of then center
it will allow the building to become more a study center and school
ah as well as a opened zendo for the
city
for people living in the city
while green gulch will be the most the most typical all around practice place
ah
leaving
tassajara to be the place for intensive practice
ken lay without your family with you were about the opportunity to have a job or anything except concentrating on your practice with no other distractions
at present there is nothing that
the stands and of my way more stands in the way they're at present there is nothing that stands in the way of my teaching
and practicing
with everyone here and also having the opportunity to see you and see your father and the other people outside
sen thinner
in a way that
it's not only him
satisfying to me and
but a natural part of our life
ah
there's nothing that stands in the way of all that more than
this need is sir
financial pressure
that we're all and none of us no one in and center can be completely free of it
we will all be relieved when this next year or two is over and we're over the crisis
hopefully we can get clear enough that we can just take care of our operational expenses which are easy to do
which is easy to do i appreciated i appreciated your letter very much it went to write to the heart of the matter for me i'm glad you understand
but i'm convinced our overall aim and our ability to be self supporting
ah is
accurate end near
i especially appreciate
ten center appreciate your willingness to help us at this time
ah
we'll make possible unless
simpler and more plausible life for all of us now
if you do come to california please do stop and see us
ah of course i would be nice just to spend time with you but i would also like to show you are building in san francisco and if possible her i and green gulch
it takes
i don't know if you'd have the extra day to go to tassajara
but time san francisco on green gulch can be seen in just one afternoon or something
give my best to your family to thank you very much for the hospitality you showed virginia and given them myself when we were east
looking forward to seeing you sincerely richard baker
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