From Stage 5. Early adulthood – The Soul Apprentice at the Wellspring
My teacher, Taizan Maezumi Roshi, died in Japan on Mothers’ Day, 1995. That morning, because Roshi was in Japan, I was giving the private interviews upstairs in the Founders’ Room at Zen Center of Los Angeles. At one point during the morning I had a strange experience of feeling time totally stand still. I made a mental note that this sensation was unusual for its depth and clarity, and how “long” it seemed to last. That’s possibly the moment Roshi died, which we later heard was about 10am Los Angeles time.
Continued at Farewell to the True Man of No Rank