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“Feeling the time,” is a line from the poet Du Fu—the time is always with us. And it’s always too early to despair. We’re just here. Not wanting anything to be different. Objections are full of knowing! You step out of the way you are perceiving the world, the dream of who you are, you turn the light backward. Recorded February 26, 2023.
Summary
“Feeling the time,” is a line from the poet Du Fu—the time is always with us. And it’s always too early to despair.
We’re just here. Not wanting anything to be different.
Master Dongguo, Eastwall, asks, “Where is this thing called the Dao?”
Zhuangzi says, “It’s in the lowest of the low—the grass, the shards, the ants, the piss and shit!”
Great knowledge enters in when we are not grasping for things.
The Emperor wanted merit for his good relationship to the Dharma. Bodhidharma set him straight—merit cannot be purchased or achieved.
Poetry from W.H. Auden, who said, “You can’t be taught to recognize a sacred being, you must be converted.”
The Dao seizes you. A line from poet Williams of the Auden school, “… a hand lighting a cigarette is the explanation of everything.”
You step out of the way you are perceiving the world, the dream of who we are, you turn the light backward. Objections are full of knowing!
Music for meditation from Michael Wilding, vows from Amaryllis Fletcher and Jesse Cardin.
Sunday Zen session recorded February 26, 2023.
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