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After the recent avalanche of hot, humid days, today it is as crisp as a carrot ... nice zazen weather. A woman is coming to sit with me ... i.e. she built a fire under my sometimes lazy ways.
How Zen students cannot see their own function as teachers beats the hell out of me, though of course I was exactly the same.
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my previous teacher taught me to keep my enemies close to you.
ReplyDeletei was not happy to leave her.
ricebowl
but i did.
ReplyDelete:)
isn't it amazing how sometimes we need to cry ... like a sudden downpour after a series of heatwaves..
ReplyDeletefuck the bloody weather.
ricebowl
Genkaku, are you filled with appreciation toward your teachers (students)? Or filled with "zen" toward your teachers.
ReplyDeleteI recon we mortals look at the appreciation part of us humans in assessing other persons. Not the zen part.
when the gautama buddha went into extinction he said in his absence there will be only one teacher --- the basic precepts.
ReplyDeletei live in a country where people are taught not to kill, not to lie, not to steal, not to commit adultery, and not to drink and drive.
in my perception, i have seen no human more human than me. but the new F16s which the government recently purchased from the US flew over my head last week at extremely low altitude and they almost made me go deaf.
I love fighter jets. They kick ass ;)
why am i smiling when there's nothing i am happy about. get lost. u make my day.
phone's ringing. mother more important.
ricebowl