Re: 4/17 - Branching Streams: 10th Talk - Suffering is Valuable
Hi all
Thanks to everyone for the great posts! I was going to let this chapter slide without posting but it would be too disrespectful to all our teachers of the Sandokai. So my 2 cents worth:
"How are we going to honor our actual lives, our own experience and conditioning, our uniqueness and particularity, without falling into the trap of being self-centered and partial to ourselves"
With our Human Nature being, selfish and creative, we use the Myriad things in numberless ways. Perhaps,the way in which we make these uses, in accord with Buddhist teachings, is testimony to our lives.
Shunryu Suzuki says, " when there is ji there is ri; when there is ri there is ji." Such as: Box and lid fitting
San and Do merging
Two sides of one coin
Two arrows meeting point to point
Left and right foot walking
Watching two channels at the same time
For me this is seeing Reality through the mind of Sandokai.
Gassho Zak
Hi all
Thanks to everyone for the great posts! I was going to let this chapter slide without posting but it would be too disrespectful to all our teachers of the Sandokai. So my 2 cents worth:
"How are we going to honor our actual lives, our own experience and conditioning, our uniqueness and particularity, without falling into the trap of being self-centered and partial to ourselves"
With our Human Nature being, selfish and creative, we use the Myriad things in numberless ways. Perhaps,the way in which we make these uses, in accord with Buddhist teachings, is testimony to our lives.
Shunryu Suzuki says, " when there is ji there is ri; when there is ri there is ji." Such as: Box and lid fitting
San and Do merging
Two sides of one coin
Two arrows meeting point to point
Left and right foot walking
Watching two channels at the same time
For me this is seeing Reality through the mind of Sandokai.
Gassho Zak
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