Friday, May 7, 2010 - Crossroads RV Park, Lyndon KS

Walking Trail, Crossroads RV Park, Lyndon KS, May 6, 2010

I'm taking a break

I'm going to stay here the weekend and see if I can't get caught up on some website maintenance I've been having a hard time finding a big enough block of time so I can concentrate on it. This is a nice quiet park with a mile or so of hiking trail and should work just fine for the purpose.

Besides, I need to slow down a little - I'm way ahead of schedule on my trek east. Sometimes my planned stopping points don't work out. The park or Walmart I have figured for a night camp sometimes has the wrong vibe and I keep moving.

Passport America

I joined the Passport America discount camping program and have been staying at some of their member parks. This is one of them, probably the best I've found so far. My standards are pretty modest but I've come across a couple of older parks that gave me the willies. Passport America has some screening to catch up on.

Night camp

Site 28 - Crossroads RV Park & Campground, Lyndon KS

Crossroads RV Park & Campground is a new 42 site park on US-75 about 2 miles north of Lyndon KS. It's nicely shaded and surrounded by farmland with a mile or so of hiking trails.
Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
Locate Crossroads RV Park & Campground on my Night Camps map
Check the weather here

Emptiness

Emptiness shouldn't be thought of as a negative. A lot of people misconstrue that as meaning the opposite of something is nothing. But this is something slightly different. I don't want to get into comparative religious things because that's a complicated topic. But if we were to think about it, the problem of life and death has to do with what comes in between, and what comes in between is an awful lot of suffering. We're not just talking about the pain of suffering, we're talking about suffering. Our common everyday parlance it's called stress. That's a kind of suffering and we die from this. From the standpoint of Zen Buddhism this life isn't some sort of stage mock-up for something else that comes after this. This is what we have. We're right here and we're being in this present moment. What you want to think about when you think about emptiness is a way in which to stay present. Just as, in a way, in a very strange kind of concept, there really is no such thing as time. There's no dress rehersal for anything.

The Artful Mind, Reverend Sohaku Flagg, Rinzai Buddhist priest, in an interview with Nanci Race, Jan/Feb 2003

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