The Ten Oxherding Pictures: Stages of Practice When You’re Going Nowhere

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  • Daiyo
    Member
    • Jul 2014
    • 819

    #16
    Originally posted by Jundo
    If you feel so strongly about politics, please come sit Zazen with Trump Buddha (or whichever politician really bothers you in Argentinian politics).

    ATTENTION: Our Zazenkai today replaces our usual wooden Buddha statue on the Altar with Donald Trump Buddha. This is not a political statement (except as some philosophers say that all things are politics). Rather, it is a call to look beyond the politics, me vs. you, us vs. them, likes and dislikes, left vs. right, loves and


    It is not that I don't have strong opinions about Mr. Trump and the state of the world. (Few of us don't have such opinions, one way or the other). Boy, I have such opinions, and when the time is right, I express them and work for social change as I hope to see.

    But when it is time to sit Zazen, I put down Trump, the state of the world, and sit with the Light which shines through all of that. So, I recommend that to you. There may be time to pick up Facebook and check on the world, or write a post ... but there is also a time to put all that down, and just sit Zazen. Then, after Zazen, one can pick up the phone and Mr. Trump again ... although maybe that Light will also keep shining too.

    Gassho, J

    STLah
    Thank you Jundo.

    Gassho,

    Daiyo

    St/Lah

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    Gassho,Walter

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    • Ryudo
      Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 424

      #17

      And oxes are wonderful creatures...

      Thank you all

      Gassho/SatToday
      流道
      Ryū Dou

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