Happy Bloomsday, one and all!
Like Leopold Bloom 105 years ago today, you’re the hero of this day.
Look around! It’s all worth celebrating, morning to night.
As Molly said from beginning to end: Yes.
And with Stephen, remember simply: Cease to strive.
With a nod of eternal gratitude to that wily penman, Mr. James Joyce.
Happy Bloomsday!
About the Author: zenscribe
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.
Things as they are make a gateless gate.
I read in “Beyond Awakening” from Jeff Foster:
“There is no liberation, there is only this.
And the included paradox is that this ìs the liberation we are looking for.”
(My amateur translation back to English)
Or Vimalakirti:
“The nature of all things is liberation”
Just live?
If that is an expression of resignation I yawn.
But if the “liberation-paradox” is included I bow.
What is a hero?
Cease to strive. So… just live?