Saturday Community - On Site

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Student talk will be given by Tom Jakuryu (寂龍) Huffman, a student of Kwong-roshi since 2008, following 10:30 am zazen. Jakuryu (Silent Dragon) has served as Land Stewards (weed whacking) and in the process has become very attached to this sacred 80 acres of land on Sonoma Mountain. His Midwestern college years were augmented by many hitchhiking excursions some of which took him cross country. He spent four years as a serious student of wolf behavior, closely working and interacting with a pack of captive gray wolves. This experience was further enhanced by the dynamic presence of the pack's alpha leaders who accepted him and became his teachers. Two years in art school were also spent as an apartment manager for an eclectic group of tenants in San Francisco's Haight…