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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Michelle Riddle & Friends: Have Confidence in the Light That Is Always Working Inside You
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhatever confronts you\, don’t believe it.\nWhen something appears shine your light on it.\nHave confidence in the light that is always working inside you. \n—Record of Linji \nIt can be very seductive to convince ourselves that we need something we don’t have—that something about our circumstances\, or our person\, could use a bit of improvement. \nThe funny thing is\, in any moment we can’t have what we don’t have or be something other than what we are. \nZen practice calls us to become interested in what is apparent in any moment if we’re not rejecting it. Koans turn us towards our mysterious connection to all things\, and also our own unique way of appearing in the world. The way in is our own way of seeing and perceiving\, our own inner light. \nLinji is instructing us to have some suspicion about the things we think are not ok (how do we know?)\, and to notice how each of us already has the light we long for. \nJoin us this Sunday for meditation\, music\, and stories of our own light. I’ll share some stories from the transmission ceremony this past weekend in which I gave up a lock of hair and gained a new rakusu\, a new Zen name\, blessings of a community and Zen ancestors\, and still nothing was given and nothing taken away. \n—Michelle Riddle\, Roshi \n\n\n\n \nMeditation is not a task with a known goal. It’s something you can’t do wrong\, a chance for the things of this world to come towards you and to meet you\, for doors to open by themselves\, and for us to see where the ancient paths lead. \n\n\nWaking up is something we do together\, in the online temple on Sunday. We love it when you join us.  \n—John Tarrant Roshi and all of us at PZI
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SUMMARY:SUNDAY ZEN with Guest Host Michelle Riddle & Friends: Meeting Just as We Are
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nZen Master Yunmen was once asked\, “What is meditating and seeing things just as they are?” He responded\, “The coin lost in the river is found in the river.” \nAs I write this\, we are one day into a new leadership regime in the United States. Things are getting shaken up; it feels rocky and unstable. It’s easy to get pulled into the drama and to speculate about what it’s all going to mean for our planet\, for people we know and people we’ve never met\, and for ourselves. This kind of thinking is full of reasons and explanations and projections. It’s different from the Zen notion of seeing things just as they are. \nIn meditation we don’t get things sorted and figured out\, we sink into the life we have and we notice what we notice—what it’s like to be here. We enter with all of our senses\, and with curiosity\, and sometimes questions arise\, such as: What is here that I am overlooking? Am I limiting what arises by thinking I know what is relevant or important? Is there something I am afraid of? Other times we can rest in awareness\, noticing without words. \nThis noticing opens us to more freedom\, to new creative moves and possibilities. \nEven when meditating with a koan that we think we know well\, in each encounter it offers something new. Like the proverbial river that we can’t enter in the same place twice\, it meets us where we are in that moment. \nLet’s meet together this Sunday and sink into a river of meditation\, music\, and more. \n—Michelle Riddle \nExcerpted from the Daodejing by Laozi\, translation by Stephen Mitchell: \nDo you have the patience to wait\ntill your mud settles and the water is clear?\nCan you remain unmoving\ntill the right action arises by itself?\nThe Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.\nNot seeking\, not expecting\,\nshe is present\, and can welcome all things.
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