The Augusto I know has many manifestations.
Martial Arts master and motorcyclist, Chinese medicine practitioner and indigenous peoples activist, Zen roshi and jester, musician and writer.
I think of a story told about the Buddha.
Buddha and Ananda were walking. Buddha asked Ananda, "do you know the essence of my teaching?"
Ananda, said, "The essence of your teaching is the Eightfold Path."
"No, it is not," Buddha said.
Surprised, Ananda tried again and again. Buddha said, "No, it is not."
"Please reveal the ultimate truth to me. I will remember and pass it on to everyone who will...

Augusto Alcalde is an Argentinean Zen teacher and one of the first Dharma Successors of the late Robert Aitken Roshi. He also was fully authorized as a zen teacher by his first teacher the Monk Yuan Chueh in the year 1974.. He lives at the Autumn Bridge Dojo, and directs the Cultural Corner,"" a place for Zen practice, and a center of Traditional Chinese Therapies. He teaches ""Learning the Tao with the Body"" ("Shingaku Do"-Dogen Zenji) which is the practice of the Chinese Internal Arts of Movement in the context and ground of traditional Zen and the Tao practices. Augusto, responding to the...

Augusto Alcalde is an Argentinean Zen teacher and one of the first Dharma Successors of the late Robert Aitken Roshi. He also was fully authorized as a zen teacher by his first teacher the Monk Yuan Chueh in the year 1974.. He lives at the Autumn Bridge Dojo, and directs the "Cultural Corner,"" a place for Zen practice, and a center of Traditional Chinese Therapies. He teaches ""Learning the Tao with the Body"" ("Shingaku Do"-Dogen Zenji) which is the practice of the Chinese Internal Arts of Movement in the context and ground of traditional Zen and the Tao practices. Augusto, responding to...