Monday, May 5, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Zen enthusiasts meditate reality and perceptions
By SHAWN McKAY
Staff Reporter
They sit in uniform rows. With their feet folded into the lotus position and their cupped hands resting on skin, gray robes, they bow in simultaneous motion.
The incense-filled room is silent for a few moments until a loud gong sounds. In a sustained monotone, the chant begins, "Avakaloteskër Bothistvafta when pracestiva" and "Kaosërëkër when provocations that all five skandhas are empty and is saved from all suffering and distress."
The sounds of cars and loud noises come from the street below go unnoticed as members of the Lawrence Chogye Zen Group drift deeper into meditation.
What questions are being pondered behind the solemn expressions?
**HEY MEDITATE ON** questions of
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
or "What was your original face before your mother was born?"
The questions point to what is real and can only be answered with a "don't know mind," according to Stan Lombardo and Judy Moriarty, directors of the Zen meditation room.
The eleven members of the group meet every morning and evening in the meditation or "Dharma Room" at 728 I/2 Suite ST. to find the answer to their Kauroi.
"The Koans, or questions, can only be answered with an immediate perception and not with a rational explanation." The Koans are designed to help you discover your true self.
"Zen is in someways a religion and in other ways it isn't," Lombardo said. "It has no creed and it has not God. I guess that it could more aptly be called a spiritual entity."
Roltman, a KU professor of mathematics,
bout practicing Zen meditation four years
ago in Cambridge, Mass., with students of
the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn.
ROTMAN SAID, "Zen doesn't give you
tissues, it takes them away from you. What
it takes away from you are basically illusions.
When you do it you do it through the
practice of meditation.
"It's not like the Guru lays his hands on your head and you are enlightened. It takes a lot of hard work and practice."
Zen can be practiced by anyone in any relation at any time. Lombardo said.
"We even have a member who is an Episcopalian vestryman and comes in and meditates on religious questions," he said.
Buddhadeveloped Zen not as a method of worship, but as a way of reminding people that earthly things are unimportant, Lombardo said.
"You start thinking less and less of the things you thought were unimportant the things you thought were important really are. Your life becomes much more direct to other people, than it was before."
DREWTORRES/Kansan
Moment of meditation
Sun Lombardo, KU professor of Classics, leads the Zen meditation group Thursday evening.
It will be politics as usual for the Student Senate this summer, although the Senate will most likely settle into a more leisurely routine than in the past. There will be no meetings this summer.
"It will be nice and relaxed in that we won't have any deadlines except the end of summer," Matt Davis, student body vice president, said.
The entire Senate staff, except the Student Senate executive chairman, will be working in the Senate office this summer. Davis said much of the work would involve research.
Davis said the pace of work probably would pick up for those in offices working independently of Senate, such as the senator, secretary and the student body treasurer.
**FOR EXAMPLE, he said, he plans to meet the senate in person of Senate, re-distributing the Senate, proposing a Student Activity Fee increase and setting up a "KU on Wheels" at the campus house.**
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"A lot of work that goes on in the office don't depend on the Senate being around," Davis said. "That work even accelerates a bit."
The Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobby group, also plans to capitalize on the summer months to catch up on its legislative homework.
STUDENTS FROM THE seven ASK member institutions—Washburn University, Topeka; Kansas State University, Topeka; Kansas State University, University, Pittsburgh State University, University of Kansas—will break into state-wide subcommittees to research various educational and academic issues likely to surface in the Kansas Legislature.
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Senate to prepare for fall term
Because Senate-funded groups have until mid-June to spend their accounts, the treasury will be both balancing this year's budget and up new accounts throughout the summer.
High on the list are strategies for maintaining or increasing levels of scholarship money, according to Jeff Evans, KU's ASK campus director.
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"The majority of the groundwork for next fall will be done in the summer," Evans said. "We want to get it done by getting various legislation through and how to kill the ones that aren't in the student population."
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The Kansas Legislature has recessed until next January.
"It is a grace period where you can set up your strategies."
"It is very important to work directly on the "committees". Evans said. "That is where the focus is. We work really hard when it (a bill) goes in committee."
ALTHOUGH THE KANSA Legislature elections this November may put a kink in ASK calculations, Evans said he expected the state to pass legislation that waivers for graduate students, which was set at a compromise figure of 60 percent of tuition, the question of how much to reimburse students for non-student use of college facilities and the issue of increasing the drinking age.
Evans said ASK worked to overturn
The Rev. Richard Taylor is spearheaded a drive to raise the drinking age to 21 for all alcoholic beverages in Kansas.
potential detrimental legislation by focusing its energy on certain pressure points in the Legislature.
Although ASK uses the summer to hatch its fall plans for Student Legal Services which provides free legal advice and tutoring for students, the summer is a slow down period.
"It is going to come up as long as Rev. Tavior is alive."
Everybody Day celebrates people
"The drinking age will come back again without a doubt," Evans said. "The drinking age is like beating a dead horse.
The administration approved Legal Services' expansion into court representation last Wednesday.
Steve Leben, Legal Service Board chairman, said he didn't expect this summer to be an exception, despite the Legal Department actually acquired right of court representation.
ACCORDING TO PAST Legal Services records, its case load should decrease by about one-half during the summer months.
Leave your money and your politics at home on Saturday. Park next Saturday, it's a day to celebrate people, not a fund-raising event, John Headquarter, the director of Headquarters, said yesterday.
"This is our gift to the Lawrence community, besides our regular crisis intervention work." Fenwick said. "We need your support for us and we just want to thank them."
Calling the six-year old celebration a time allowance the stress of the finish. Fewer艾威 and their staff need to be present at intervention center, which is sponsoring the day, wanted everybody to come to South Carolina.
In case of rain, Everybody Day will be rescheduled for May 17.
are also planned. The day will conclude with a 6 p.m. performance by the group Thumbs
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"The last two weekends we have had a lot of heavy situations here," he said. "People are in stressful situations because of finals, exams, hunting and because of our economy, too."
Thank you and congratulations
"It gets us down here, too, so we just want everybody to come out and celebrate with us and forget the stress."
The celebration will include bands such as the Headquarters Kanoo Band and the Sense performing groups such as the KUF Dance Club. A bubbling love context, led by drummer David Hicks, performs
Colby Kullman...Byford Knit shirt
Bob Evans...Sero shirt & Rels tie
Jack Strong...four pr. Byford socks
Mark Slacks...Jiffy garment cover
Jim Owens...Sir sport shirt
Bill Peak...Woolrich jacket
H H. Mellonhynn...Cross Creek knit shirt
Richard Royce...Sero shirt & Rels tie
Robert Anderson...The Crescent
Max Falkenstel...Sir dress shirt
C makrother...Byford knit shirt
Jim Sheldon...Jersild golf sweater
Gary Fish...Pendleton tee
Bill Clawson...Cross Creek knit shirt
Mike McNellis...Cricketer suit
TODAY: The GRADUATE WOMEN'S GROUP will meet at noon in Cork Room 2 of the Kansas Union.
TOMORROW: BLACK STUDENT
UNION will hold clinic practice at 5:30 p.m.
BACHMAN: STUDENT UNION
ORGANIZATION will meet at 6:30 p.m.
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