I learned about Jijang Bosal (Jizo in Japanese). Being a member of the Kwan Um School of Zen, we get chanting requests for deceased to JiJang Bosal.
http://www.kwanumzen.org/wp-content/uploads/Memorial_ceremony1.pdf
It's been a while! 
Gazebo with flower garden, vegetable garden, pastures. 600 acres. 1700's Inn from Colonial days in Massachusetts when people went places by horse. On a rainy, windblown day I stopped here. Figured I should replace that picture of me in winter fleece.
Mohawk Trail is a former indian trail, now Rte 2, that winds through forest, by rivers, across the state of Massachusetts. Mohawk is the name of native American tribe.
I keep being drawn to the river, sticking my feet in the cold mountain water. 강 물
novel about New York book editor Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche, who embark on a road trip from Rinpoche's meditation center in North Dakota to the glitter and glitz of the Las Vegas strip.
"Dinner with Buddha". A fiction book about a New Yorker and his brother-in-law who take a road trip together. Brother-in-law is a Buddhist monk. Funny & interesting characters & spiritual lessons.
