{"id":950,"date":"1997-02-10T12:45:21","date_gmt":"1997-02-10T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/?p=950"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:06:37","slug":"settling-in-to-the-zen-city-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/settling-in-to-the-zen-city-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling In To The Zen City Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAfter three months of living there, I moved out of the San Francisco Zen Center City Center for most of the month of December to live at my friend David’s house.\u00a0 I did that in order to have the time to apply to graduate schools in clinical psychology – there was no way I could complete and submit all of my applications, do my programming job, and also participate in the full weekly schedule of meditation, services, and work at the Zen Center. I left my stuff in my room at City Center and continued to pay rent there, and I occasionally dropped back in to meditate.<\/p>\n

Applying to graduate school is something that I have thought about doing for four years, and I feel satisfied and accomplished that I have now done so. The applications took a huge amount of time, attention to detail, and favor asking (“Could you please write me a letter of recommendation?”, “Could you please proof-read this?”).<\/p>\n

Once my applications were complete, having enjoyed living in San Francisco for the first time with more freedom concerning when I went to bed early and when I stayed up late to socialize, I almost didn’t move back in to Zen Center.\u00a0 And, once I did more back, I made finding a new place to live where I could live with friends a high priority. But, I did not end up moving out, and, in the time since, I’ve settled into feeling happy to be living at the Zen Center.<\/p>\n

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[Me in the central courtyard of City Center]<\/p>\n

I’ve found ways to sneak doing what I want to do in to little cracks of time.\u00a0 I have also come to feel less stressed about skipping scheduled periods of meditation or services.\u00a0 I find that I am allowed to skip out on events at City Center more than I was allowed when I was living at Green Gulch – I think that there is the recognition by the senior staff\/priests that this is life in the big city.<\/p>\n

I have attended yoga class three times in the last nine days, and my body feels vibrant and alive.\u00a0 I find it pleasant that I can live here and still fit yoga classes in. Also, there are now four straight more-or-less single women under thirty-five living here, while there were none when I first moved in. Their pleasant presence changes the vibe here at the temple by quite a bit. Also, if we’re really going to be honest, it should be known that they all moved in because of me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have come to feel friendly, or at least comfortable, with most of the other residents and long-time regular non-residential students. I’ve been living here for five months, it’s my home. The beautiful building is a powerhouse of good energy, good chi.
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After three months of living there, I moved out of the San Francisco Zen Center City Center to apply to graduate schools in clinical psychology. Moving back into the building, I have come to feel friendly, or at least comfortable, with most of the other residents and long-time regular non-residential students. I’ve been living here for five months, it’s my home. The beautiful building is a powerhouse of good energy, good chi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,36,32],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-san-francisco-zen-center","tag-sfzc-city-center","tag-soto-zen-buddhism","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}