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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 12, 1992
LIFE
Meditate...Now and Zen
*Sho jjo-mu hen-sei gan-dan*
*Bon-sho mju-min-jse gan-dan*
*Hon-mou mru-yo sei-gaku*
*Butsu-do mju-gan-jao*
Rhythmic chanting broke the early Saturday morning silence in a temple on a quiet residential street in Lawrence.
The Zen meditation retreat at the Kansas Zen Center ended a week-long series of activities in Lawrence with Keido Fukushima, master of the Tofukiju Monastery in Kyoto, Japan.
The Zen master has visited the University of Kansas every year since 1899, when faculty at the Spencer Museum of Art invited him to come.
His gentle brown eyes intent on his interpreter, Fukushima spoke fluently in Japanese of his reasons for coming to KU each year.
"Upon my return here, I came to feel that there are serious problems with Zen in the United States," Fukushima said. "Americans seem to have a tendency to take things very free. In America, many forms of meditation have been mixed together. One of my missions is to present genuine Japanese Zen to laypeople in America."
ple to come to a better understanding of each other."
Fukushima said Zen Buddhism could be a unifying factor between Japanese and American cultures.
"I hope to help to form a bridge in some small way between common cultures in Japan and America and doing this through Zen," he said. "Personally, I have a great liking for America and American people, but I do feel it is necessary for peo-
Japanese custom usually does not allow women to practice Zen in the Japanese monasteries, but Fukushima said he made special exceptions for American women to practice with the monks in his monastery.
Patricia Fister, former curator of oriental art at the Spencer Museum of Art, moved to Japan one year ago and regularly visits Fukushima's monastery to practice Zen. Fukushima said
The Zen master said Zen Buddhism appealed to many Americans because it was a practical, concrete religion.
"When you die, that the end," Fukushima said in broken English.
The Zen master continued his explanation in Japanese. "While we're alive and take on a particular form here, we must do what we can to function with that form. In the case of Zen Buddhism, the point is to be a living buddha while one is alive."
Great dangers exist when science and government are divorced from a religious basis, he said.
"Speaking from my own convictions. I would like to see politicians and economists take a deeper interest in religion, "Fukushima said. "I think that is the best way to achieve what everyone talks about as world peace."
Sarah Nockleton, Lawrence sophomore, was one of five KU students who came to the retreat Saturday. She said she went because of her interest in Eastern philosophies and religions.
The retreat was Nockonick's first exposure to Zen Buddhism.
"I'm not joining anything, but I've enjoyed practicing it today," she said. "I don't identify with any particular doctrine."
Stan Lombardo, head of the classics department, said he thought college students were somewhat more open to Zen Buddhism than the general population, but not as much as people might have assumed.
"It tends to appeal deeply to people who have had a lot of experience in life - people who have suffered," Lombardo said.
Lombardo has been involved with Zen Buddhism for 15 years, he said. About 25 people are involved with the Zen Center in Lawrence.
A Zen student organization is being formed at KU. Lombardo said 10 students had indicated interest.
Gary Baura, graduate student, said he had been involved with Zen Buddhism for four years. The retreat was the first time he had practiced Zen meditation since his study abroad experience in Japan two years ago.
"As for me, I'm not going in to this in terms of any self-discovery," he said. "In a sense, it's relaxing, but I couldn't say that it's any integral part of my life."
Story by Katherine Manweter
Photo by Derek Nolen
Keido Fukushima is the Zen master of the Tofukuji Monastery in Japan.
Wichita author chronicles father's Alzheimer's battle
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In her book "Daddyboy: A Memoir," Carol Wolfe Konek, associate dean of liberal arts at Wichita State University, takes readers inside complex family relationships that once revolved around her father.
WICHTA - As Leonard Wolfe slowly went from a rational, self-reliant intellectual man to a bewailed, dependent Alzheimer's disease victim, his daughter chronicled the descent.
"Daddyboy" may be too frank for recently diagnosed Alzheimer's victims and their families, said Konek, a 57-year-old women's studies professor and researcher.
"You wonder if it's best that some see what's going to happen in two weeks, or two months or two years," she said. "Maybe some people are better off if they don't know that."
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Konek took extensive notes each time her father and family members met with doctors. The notes served as a reference for later discussions and provided material that went into the book. But the note-taking also functioned as a defense or coping, mechanism that distanced her from what was happening, much like her father at family gatherings and celebrations, preoccupied with his still and camera-cameras, she says.
Observations and anecdotes about her father and contemporary conversations are interwoven with detailed flashbacks used to tell the story of Konek's growing up in western Kansas.
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