So much to do all week left me without words here.
I was plunged, however, into Walt Whitman’s joyous word cosmos:
All truths wait in all things,
he wrote.
Like Shunryu Suzuki, who said:
Wherever you are, enlightenment is there. If you stand up right where you are, that is enlightenment.
And now I stand up right here at my desk to head for a retreat.
Bon weekend.
Stand up right here
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Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 23:31, par little lake
Is there such a thing as falling and rising ?
Just Walk
Standing up and falling down.
Drinking coffee and making conversation.
They are compassion; they are living Dharma.
They exist as liberation.
The true nature of all things is liberation.
Is there such a thing as falling and rising ?
All truths wait in all things, WW said.
Do they?
And for what do they wait?
Maybe this is better:
In all things all truths are speaking and acting.
They are living Dharma.
Fall and rise, fall and rise, always
Yes. Let fall!
Aha!
No clearing is needed.
Falling into an abyss is fun.
Fogg is Buddha. No clearing is needed.
has anyone a machine to clear the mist/fogg?
If you see the Bouddha, kill him.
He will come back… when the fogg/mist has gone … as he is allways there…
don’t try to understand him – he will run away…
(he is a man you know!)
Ha!
cannot pinch your nose through the computer, Ting . Realy not.
But i suggest you pinch – ….
yes, this is it
there’s nothing else…
everything is perfect as it is.
don’t know if enlightenment can be understood???
who? would understand what?
I’ ll pinch my own nose…
Or maybe I just want someone to pinch my nose.
It matters.
If enlightenment is understood, the understanding must be challenged.
Does it (what happens next) matter?
How much am I here now, whilst I’m thinking I should be on retreat too….
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And then what? (I just can’t help asking)