Zen
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Standing in Awe
To see the moon and be awestruck. The red moon reflecting the sun’s light through the smoky last night and be dumbstruck by the miracle of the moon The miracle of that rock orbiting our earth. The miracle of that rock that was expelled from this earth when a mars size object collided with this Continue reading
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Consider the Orchid
Consider the orchid. Consider the orchid at the grocery store. Consider the display of orchids at the grocery store. Consider the white pots. Consider the green stem. Consider the stick that supports the stem. Consider the bloom. Consider the flower blooming. Consider the beauty. Then I think of the orchid purchased bought home consider the Continue reading
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Awareness
Friday Talk Good morning. My name is Paul, and I am an alcoholic. Monday I decided that I would talk about the eleventh principle: Awareness of God. It was the best choice and the worst. Awareness of God. I have spent the last 4 days wrestling with it. And all of my resistance. My legendary Continue reading
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Question 2: Commentary
Perhaps read this first Sat Shikantaza for twenty minutes in Caribou. Literally. Not in the lotus position. Not in the half-lotus position but seated on a bench in Caribou. Thinking about question 2 above. What is crossing over? Goalless meeting the goal. Letting go of thinking to be in non-thinking. Trying to still the intellectual Continue reading
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Question 2: Exhaling
Who is striving for what? As Dosho asks in question 2 of Going Through the Mystery’s One hundred Questions. ” So intimate, who is striving for what? This is not a rhetorical question.” I tried to move onto the third question, but I keep coming back here. Perhaps because I know I have not satisfactorily Continue reading
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Question 2: Who, What, Striving
Question 2: “So intimate, who is striving for what? This is not a rhetorical question.” Last night with this. Into this morning with this. Using the techniques that Dosho gave me for the Mu Koan, the Heart Sutta, Genjo Koan when I studied with him. Trying to take it out of the mind and into Continue reading
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First Question
“ “Yuantong asked: “Mysterious conduct is like wading through a rugged stream. What place is smooth?” Wansong replied: “East. West. South. North.” What place is smooth?” At the MOA transit station. Read this again. Read it yesterday. But this is not the type of book one goes through quickly. In fact, I am making Continue reading
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