Once my Instructors' Course was completed I began an intellectual study of Zen. I traced its course from the Buddha, its contact with the Tao of Ancient China and its subsequent transformation to Zen, and spread of Zen to Korea and Japan.
I am currently in communication with Zen Master Seung Sahn, my Sword Master's Master, in an informal practice of Kong-an and Dharma Combat training.
The last three years as swim coach for the Cumberland-Lincoln Boys' Club has helped me see that I am fully capable of being an excellent educator. I have tried to demonstrate and instill in my swimmers all of the greater qualities I have been exposed to in the past eleven years. I have sought to make them responsible to themselves, their teammates, their families, and their communities. I demanded and obtained correct conduct in practice and meets. I have tried to develop in them the qualities and virtues our society rewards and values, specifically, honesty, patience, respect and discipline.
"...But wait there's more..."
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