Grass Hut - 7 - Here with the Weeds

[Ed]

When you own your life nothing is extra.
Aspire to give a masterly performance with your karmic self, in you karmic world, moment by moment allowing the depth of your life to manifest.
Practice practice/enlightenment; how can a rose be a violet? Who else can drive your life? Who else can give the master performance, be mature?
A group of such people is a society of buddhas.
That is the Buddha Way. That is my hope.
Weeds? I don't know no stinking weeds.

I paraphraced Uchiyama roshi's commentary on DOGEN'S GENJOKOAN

[Jika]

Would I prefer a life free of suffering?
Whithout all the war and ecological catastrophes and hatred in the world, a life where everyone died in their sleep at an old age after good health?
Yes, I would.

Is that why I'm here?
No. I'm here because there's a little place beneath the the weeds sometimes, all of the heap I call my life.

Gassho,
Danny
#duckedtoday

[Troy]

This section of the book reminded me of a poem Taigu wrote a year or two ago. I try to find the poem on the forum but I had no luck. However, I did find a post by Taigu regrading the Grass Hut poem from 6 years ago, If anyone is interested I have posted the link here.

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?6474-Your-song&highlight=Taigu+poem

..sat2day•

[Risho]

I love this book! This chapter is just about practice (hahahah, "just"). Meeting someone difficult we still offer metta. There's just so much density here. Whether we want them or not, weeds are here. They will always be because it is human to have desire. But to have desire and not to be caught by it. To live with weeds or things we do want, and not to be caught be them. That's tricky, and that's why I practice. Life always changes, there's no way to master it.. just have to live the best, in the best way, the least harmful and most helpful way we can.

Gassho,

Risho
-sattoday

[orangedice]

I've been mulling over this chapter for a few days. I'm not sure I like it because it explains a simple truth: that those weeds never go away. :P I wish they did, but they don't. No matter how hard I'd like them to, or how hard I try to whack them, they will always be there. Its very hard to accept, and also VERY exhausting to keep whacking at them. Hopefully I can learn to accept them so I can lie peacefully in them one day.

Gassho,
June
#SatToday

[michaeljc]

'Weeds' are what drive my practice, through which they are - at moments in time - no longer weeds

m

sat 2-day

[pinoybuddhist]

For the past few days every time a feeling of irritation came up (e.g. at the kids, at the traffic, etc.) I think, here are the weeds. But the weeds will always be there growing on the grass hut. Sometimes needing pulling out, sometimes just need to let weeds be weeds. This "I" might sometimes wish for a weedless life, but then again this "I" is a weed too, after all.

Gassho,
Sat among the weeds today

[BrianW]

Lots of weeds as of late...and it can be exhausting. So I'll start from the a quote from the book "Covered by weeds!" Nevertheless, I'll sit in the weed patch for a bit.
Gassho,
Jisen/BrianW