We are flowering flowers in a flowering world,
Moment to moment, just as
Fish swim like fish in the ever changing waters of the sea,
Moment to moment, just as
Birds fly like birds in the ever changing vastness of the sky,
Moment to moment, just as
The lotus unfolds petal after petal, moment to moment.
CSL ~ with help from Dogen
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
On the 'appropriate response'
The 'appropriate response' is derived from compassion, from 'right view'
Bankai...zen master who responded to his angry students by stating that his response, his work is to teach the thief-apprentice monk right from wrong, rather than dismissing him from the community.
Right view includes realizing that we are all part of a 'whole'.
'Right' has many translations including 'upright', 'complete', 'not leaning one way or the other'
Katagiri Roshi: you can't know the middle way until you know the two extremes. Anywhere between the two extremes is the 'middle way'.
Bankai...zen master who responded to his angry students by stating that his response, his work is to teach the thief-apprentice monk right from wrong, rather than dismissing him from the community.
Right view includes realizing that we are all part of a 'whole'.
'Right' has many translations including 'upright', 'complete', 'not leaning one way or the other'
Katagiri Roshi: you can't know the middle way until you know the two extremes. Anywhere between the two extremes is the 'middle way'.
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