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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
from the Genjo Koan
The buddha way, in essence, is leaping clear of
abundance and lack;
thus there are birth and death,
delusion and realization,
sentient beings and buddhas.
Yet in attachment blossoms fall,
and in aversion weeds spread.
http://villagezendo.org/wordpress/wp-content/
pdfs/Genjo_Koan.pdf
9/24/2013...together with Warren Lang
There is suffering...unavoidable suffering...The First Noble Truth. Death, sickness, loss.
The practice is to learn to not shoot the second arrow at myself.
Remember that without mud, there is no lotus.
Yet we can avoid that second kind of suffering knowing that happiness is always here and now