TREELEAF ZENDO PODCAST
Episodes
Wednesday Nov 25, 2009
The Ten Oxherding Pictures (III)
Wednesday Nov 25, 2009
Wednesday Nov 25, 2009
The first picture ... The Seeker
On his blog, Mike Dosho Port quotes Andy Ferguson's translation of a poem by Sensu Tokujo, one of our Chinese ancestors:
Letting down the line ten thousand feet,
A single breaking wave makes ten thousand ripples.
At night in still water, the cold fish won't bite.
An empty boat filled with moonlight returns.
The fish is the golden fish and stands for a metaphor of awakening for even dead its eyes are bright and wide open. Just like the bull or the ox. We fish something we will never get, we won't be allowed on the promised land, we won't be given what we expected. Much more. We end up with the moonlight , a symbol of the oneness of practice and realization. We end up with Shikantaza, being already home as we start our journey, for there is nowhere else to be. Just being is our home. So the seeking never ceases, it is the action through which we turn the Dharma wheel, it is this continous practice. Nowhere to go, nobody who travels, to destination to reach, just the full joy of being and unfolding this being-time now.
Monday Nov 16, 2009
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
Whattsa Who'sa Bodhisattva? - The Virtue of Knowledge
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
The Tenth of the Bodhisattva's Ten Virtues is .... Knowledge (Jñāna)
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In Saving All Sentient Beings ... Knowledge Goes a Long Way ...
Monday Nov 09, 2009
The Ten Oxherding Pictures (I)
Monday Nov 09, 2009
Monday Nov 09, 2009
This is an Enso from the great Zen teacher Nantembo who lived a century ago, his temple in Nishinomiya is very close to where I live.
It says: Everything fundamentally is perfect roundness in this world. As soon as you are born in this world, your mind is fundamentally perfect roundness.