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That’s a tough one. To be without preferences when it comes to somethings can be easier but there is something about people and our reactions to them that makes it much more challenging to truly be impartial. “Fake it til you make it”
Thank you for these Shokai. I don’t feel I have much to contribute to each new Gate but I am following along daily.
It's easier to remain impartial to the world if we practice alone on a mountain somewhere, but can we maintain equanimity while surrounded by the pleasures and pain of the "regular" world?
Water everywhere
A duck swims
Without getting wet
Gassho,
Seikan
-stlah-
弘道聖簡 Kōdō Seikan
(Vast Way Sacred Simplicity)
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"If someone asks / about the mind of this monk, / say it is no more than / a passage of wind / in the vast sky."
—Ryokan
Without enmity, I do not yearn for liberation from aggravation.
Without intimacy, I do not cry for what my heart holds dear.
But I am alive and so I find my stillness among my desirings.
Gassho,
Nengei
Sat today. LAH.
遜道念芸 Sondō Nengei (he/him)
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