It’s Friday night.
They’re still taking sides across the Atlantic.
Which calls for more from Vimalakirti:
« Therefore, Shariputra, if one would be a seeker of the dharma, one must not seek it in anything at all. »
Or, I might add, seek it everywhere.
Le Web carnet de Amy Hollowell Sensei, fondatrice de la Wild Flower Zen Sangha et successeur de Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi dans le lignage Zen Soto de Taizan Maezumi Roshi, fondateur du Centre Zen de Los Angeles.
The Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.
Thanks for the idea Ting. I had one beer today.
ok!
When I was first in the zendo I saw the people bowing when they came in in this place of exercise.
I asked someone: "why don’t we bow when we leave the zendo???"
I was told: " becouse we never leave the zendo."
Maybe it is that way to with the rakusu. Maybe the most powerfull rakusu is the one that has been burned allready – the unwritten one.
Life embracing us as one big rakusu…
I’m in for the beer Little Lake.
And Hugo, you sound like you could use one too.
Today I am seeking the dharma in my pain, my tears and my scares.
Outside the sun is so bright and it is becoming hot.
Me too.
What Picasso ment by finding is in fact "not taking sides" I guess. Not "doing" but "being".
Being the eyes and the hands, surrendered to the proces going on – becoming the proces – one with the piece he made –
without "head" interfering – (ego/controler).
Finding is not finding "something" else. Finding is pre-conceptual :astonishment, openness , you’re given something that doesn’t separate itself of the process.
The artist, the process, the piece he makes are all one fluid movement in time , from moment to moment.
It is not just absorbtion though. Fully awake from moment to moment, there is an aspect of clear differentiation: the eyes just see what there is… changing from moment to moment –
Why would we seek for the light?
When we see clear, we see we only know the light by knowing the darkness???
Let’s have a beer toghether with Freddie…
I suppose it’s better to forget the whole dharma-thing.
Some years ago I burned my rakusu.
It had been laying in a drawer for I don’t know how long for I don’t know what reason.
Just couldn’t throw it in the trash can I guess; sentimental fool that I am.
So I decided to make a fire in front of the garden house. I put some wood in an iron basket and set it on fire.
Just when I had thrown in the textile, Freddie the greengrocer next-door walked into the garden to check out the smoke signals. He’s a sensitive guy. So he asked, what’s going on? Is this some kind of ceremony?
No of course not Freddie, want a beer?
Seeking and finding, are both “taking sides”.
This is it and that’s not.
Picasso seems to reject “something already known”.
Why? What’s wrong with it?
Not seeking it in anything at all / seeking it everywhere refers to this old paradox.
The Third Patriarch said: “Just avoid picking and choosing.”
Avoid avoiding? That’s logically impossible.
I suppose it’s better to forget the whole dharma-thing.
…
"I don’t seek – I find"
for when we seek – we seek for "something" that is allready known…
while finding – is finding the unknown…
picasso