Tuesday, October 20, 2020

on idle chit chat

Discussing brother Phap Hai's discussion on the 3rd noble truth and remarking how much his comments about idle chitchat struck me in the helpful way. He spoke about how harmful speech consists of several categories and idle chit chat is one of those categories.

 I discussed this with W. this afternoon and he found it to be interesting as well.

Then W. talked about we can learn from katagiri roshi. A different topic: about how if I feel uncomfortable that's OK when I need to process something or do something that is difficult -- just do it. If I perceive it's difficult.. then it's time to do it. in some sense we're creating a Phantom wall and we can walk right through that wall...bc reality is likely to be quite different from our imagining.