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Zazen & Daily Life
In his recent post 84,000 Flavours, Kyōshin referred to a comment made by the teacher Dosho Port on the Wild Fox Zen blog. “In Dosho Port’s post he compared and contrasted Okumura words with the words of a Rinzai priest about practice and daily life and said that Okumura’s view is that ‘zazen is strong [...]
84,000 Flavours
For some reason when I woke up this morning my mind was deeply engaged in recollection of the past and I started to feel a kind of vertigo over what often seems like the incredible disconnect between all my past thoughts, plans, behaviours, views and the actual course of my life. For the most part [...]
Mudra
My daily zazen and otsutome have been pretty badly afflicted by indolence, daydreaming and a lack of focus over the past couple of months. In the past this would have been a source of great restlessness and suffering, but I have at least learned the truth of Shunyru Suzuki Roshi’s words; “even if you keep [...]
Sifting rice and sand
“sort rice and sand – sacred and mundane – in the midst of work itself”. (Dosho Port paraphrasing the Tenzo Kyokun) About two years into my membership of my home temple, I passed from the stage of wanting everything translated into my own cultural mileu into the whole-hearted immersion phase. With that necessary commitment though came a certain [...]
Treasures found at low tide
Over the last six months I’ve been reading Thomas a Kempis’ Imitation of Christ alongside a couple of Dharma friends. Yesterday one of the them wrote to me about his reaction to the text and one of the topics to come up was his difficulty with the idea of a grace that is given and yet [...]
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