{"id":235,"date":"2013-03-04T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-03-04T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T13:49:56","slug":"in-memorium-genki-roshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"In Memorium: Genki Roshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BiranOnline-Genki-Roshi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-237\" title=\"BiranOnline Genki Roshi\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BiranOnline-Genki-Roshi-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BiranOnline-Genki-Roshi-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BiranOnline-Genki-Roshi.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>Genki Takabayashi Roshi, who played a major role in Birankai&#8217;s Zen training, died on Feb. 24, 2013. Our sincere condolences to Genki Roshi&#8217;s family and friends and the members of the Chobo-ji Zen Temple in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a remembrance by Genjo Osho from the <a href=\"http:\/\/choboji.org\/\">Chobo-Ji website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Genki Takabayashi Roshi, Chobo-Ji\u2019s founding abbot, dropped his body five hours after returning home late last night to be with his wife and cat in the town of Victor, Montana.<\/p>\n<p>I was with him the weekend before last when he was in a rehab hospital in Missoula. At that time <!--more-->he was deciding whether to rally once more or let go. He died from complications from a car accident last December and congestive heart failure.\u00a0 Before I departed and said my goodbyes he asked me to make him one last bowl of matcha, he took three sips and then bid me farewell. His decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>The Chobo-Ji will be chanting Great Compassionate Dharani for him at every scheduled zazen service through this coming Sunday. There is a small grave side memorial being planned for him in Victor Montana this coming Monday. In 49 days, April 14th, there will be a major celebration of his life here in Seattle at Chobo-Ji.<\/p>\n<p>With gassho,<\/p>\n<p>Genjo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genki Takabayashi Roshi, who played a major role in Birankai&#8217;s Zen training, died on Feb. 24, 2013. Our sincere condolences to Genki Roshi&#8217;s family and friends and the members of the Chobo-ji Zen Temple in Seattle. The following is a remembrance by Genjo Osho from the Chobo-Ji website: Genki Takabayashi Roshi, Chobo-Ji\u2019s founding abbot, dropped &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Memorium: Genki Roshi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}