Last week, I listened to the Zen Stories talk by Gil Fronsdal from 2003. Definitely one of my favorites of his so far.
I really enjoy Fronsdal’s perspective on things because he has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford and has trained in both the Soto Zen and Insight Meditation lineages. From my beginner’s eyes, there’s a lot to learn and take from varying lineages of Buddhism, no matter which one you might feel most closely connected with.
So, the other day on my personal blog I linked up to the Blogisattva Awards which are given to Buddhist bloggers. Kind of a cool idea and I wanted to scour the nominees for new sites to check out.
Today I returned to the page, clicking through a few links here and there when I stumble upon the “Best Achievement in Clean, Straightforward, Unaffected Design” category and see:
Wait… what?
First of all, I’m surprised anyone’s even stumbled across this blog as I haven’t really mentioned it or linked it up very many places. It’s really just been a place for me to think out loud about stuff as I start this here Buddhist journey thing.
Secondly, as much as I’d like to take credit for the design, it’s just a plain old Wordpress theme I downloaded. I haven’t even made a header graphic! On top of that, I grabbed it because I first saw it over at My Zen Life. So I’m doubly lazy!
I guess what I’m saying is: please don’t vote for me! I’m sure one of the other sites is way more worthy than a lazy zen beginner that slapped his site up on a whim one afternoon.
But I do invite you to stick around and comment! I have a lot to learn.
