Wife, Just Let Go

Thursday, December 30, 2021

December 2021

Plumeria
shedding blossoms
on the grass
teach the beauty
of letting go

Greetings!

Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a very fortuitous, peaceful New Year! As we shed the old for the new, may 2022 bring blessings of contentment, equanimity, good health and joy.

Life in Maui continues with moments of connection and sharing within a circle of friendship that keeps widening inclusively. Zen and Tea are wonderful ways of doing this and friends are forever teaching new ways to be present, involved, and actively engaged beyond our community. With times as they are (and always have been) the season invites us to be contemplative, mindfully vigilant as we discover new ways of seeing and accepting others with eyes of kindness and compassion. The phrase “ichigo ichie” (unprecedented, unrepeatable) recurs as a reminder of the fleetingness of each moment. Thus, let us treasure each other and the bountiful beauty of nature.

May all beings be at peace and happy! diana keishin

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Diana Saltoon Bio

Diana Saltoon has traveled extensively, studied yoga, and in the 1970s developed a program that dealt with modern stress. Her interest in Zen led to a study of Chado, The Way of Tea, as a Zen art and received a certificate of Chamei from the Urasenke School in Kyoto, Japan. Diana became a teacher at the Portland Wakai Tea Association in Oregon before moving with her husband, Robert Briggs, to New York in 2011. They returned to Portland, Oregon, in 2014. A member of Zen communities in Oregon and New York, Diana continues to give presentations, classes and workshops on the Zen Art of Tea. She is the author of Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility (2004), The Common Book of Consciousness (1990), and Four Hands: Green Gulch Poems (1987).

Robert Briggs Bio

Robert Briggs attended Auburn and Columbia Universities and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He became a partner in The San Francisco Book Company in 1972 and in 1973 founded Robert Briggs Associates, a group of West Coast consultants to writers and small publishers. The Association was involved in a variety of nonfiction publications including Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, Kenneth R. Pelletier’s classic book on stress, as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Colin Wilson, and Theodore Roszak. Briggs is also the author of The American Emergency: A Search for Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Materialism, 1986, and Ruined Time: the 1950s and the Beat, 2006. Ruined Time is a cultural autobiography of the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950s. This book sparked various multimedia projects including Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons, reads written and read by Robert Briggs and accompanied by jazz musicians in performances in Portland, OR. CDs were produced that include Poetry in the 1950s (1999), Someone Said No(2003), My Own Atom Bomb (2005), The Beat Goes On(2008), Love in America (2009) and The Beat Revealed (2011). Robert Briggs was involved in early West Coast jazz and poetry scenes where he performed in San Francisco’s Jazz Cellar. To Briggs, “Jazz is to music, what poetry is to knowing.”

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

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