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| WELCOME TO THE SECOND ONLINE EDITION of "Hundred Mountain Journal." We've added some features, took some away (they'll return later) and generally tinkered with this and that. Please let us know what you think. We use the royal "we," but at the moment the production and design of "Hundred Mountain" is a one-man operation, run out of a living room in Huntington, West Virginia. We—that is to say, I—am on the hunt for well-written articles, including features, reviews and whatnot, that speak to the contemporary Buddhist scene, provide insight on meditation and daily spiritual practice in modern times, or that would just plain fit into this publication, which has a lot of nooks and crannies for good and interesting stuff. Hundred Mountain recently earned a plug on Charlie Bowen's daily Internet News program, hosted by George Washington University. The Web radio program, also heard on more than 435 radio stations and cable systems in more than 70 countries, features daily 60-second spots on new, interesting and useful sites on the web (we hope we merit a few of those adjectives). The spot on the Journal can be found here. Or head to the program's web site at www.netnewstoday.com and look in the archives for the 'Zen in Cyberspace' program in January. We're not quite as Zen-oriented as the short piece suggests, being more now and Zen in our coverage. But we take publicity where we can find it and were pleased by this surprise plug. Bowen, a former colleage of mine at the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch, was an early Internet trailblazer and is author of a dozen books on computing and on-line services. You can read the text of the program at the Internet News site or if your browser has the "Real Audio" plug-in, hear Charlie speak it out. If you find you need the plug-in, get a free one at the Real Player web site at www.real.com. WE... OOPS, THERE WE GO AGAIN... I am still learning the ropes of hoisting an ongoing online publication onto the Internet. Please let us know if you come upon broken links or general screwiness anywhere in this site. Some of the screwiness may be intended, though. See if you can find poet William Blake's hidden handicraft. (HINT: Keep an eye peeled for a tiger and give him a tap on the head.) In a sense, Hundred Mountain is still something of an elaborate home page for one person's take and experience of Buddhism and insight meditation practice in contemporary America, plus the quirks and foibles of trying to find a fit between spiritual practice and hyperspeed contemporary life. But as this site grows, and if it survives, my hope is that it might routinely offer both a welcome, useful place to come for some good reading, entertainment, helpful information and insights that might also lead people on to further study and practice. Be well | FEBRUARY, 1999 EDITOR: Douglas Imbrogno PREVIOUSLY:
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