Holiday Sitting with Dick

[Zenkon]

Please join me Saturday, 12/25 at 7:30 a.m. Chicago time (CST) for a Holiday Sitting with Dick. We will have a 30 min silent sitting followed by a poetry reading of one of Dogen's poems. Please see our calendar for details.

Gassho

Dick

sat/lah

[Nengyoku]

I hope to be able to join you, friend.

Gassho,
William
SatLah

[Jundo]

You have my encouragement to sit in Santa hats.

I told Dick, when we discussed this, that it is an "all and every Holiday" sitting ... Rohatsu, Channukah (I am still not sure the spelling ), Christmas, Winter Soltice, Just Saturday, timeless, Just this Moment, Kwanzaa, Bastille Day, New Zealand Waitangi Day (even though months from now, then is now and now is then) ... and 1001 more ...

Gassho, J

STLah

[Onkai]

Thank you Dick. It sounds lovely and I plan to join you.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Shonin Risa Bear]

There is also Hogswatch. _()_

gassho
ds sat and some lah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Dick and company. That was a lovely way to start the Christmas day. The poem was beautiful.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Nengyoku]

Thank you everyone for sitting together. A great way to start the day.

Dick could you post the poem here also, if you have the time? I very much enjoyed it, and would like to read it again.

Gassho,
William
SatLah

[Tai Shi]

Holiday Sitting with Dick


I will sit with you all and my good friend Kyousui. We truly try to sit every Saturday/ Sunday together is good.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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[Zenkon]

Thank you all who joined me. I will try to keep a poem reading a regular part of my weekly Saturday morning sitting. Here is the poem from 12/25.

The Zen Poetry of
DOGEN
Verses from the
Mountain of Eternal Peace
STEVEN HEINE
Tuttle Publishing. Boston.
1997


Snow is falling far and wide,
Each snowflake neither the very same nor completely different than the other ones;

Singing and dancing, they chase after each other,
Till the whole universe is made afresh with its new covering,
As the snow even conceals the moon and clouds,
And puts out the flame in our hearth;

All kinds of leaves and flowers respond differently to the cycles of the seasons,
Yet remain oblivious to the cold of night or the chill of winter—

So goes the preaching of the Dharma
By the pines in the valleys and the bamboos on the mountains

Gassho

Dick

sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

I want about the sit apply my sorrow to my work. My dedication is to poetry to verse to words.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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[Onkai]

Thank you, Dick. I really enjoyed the sitting and the poem. The time conflicts with when my brother usually visits us on Saturday mornings, but I will join when he doesn't make it. Deep bows.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat/lah

[Tai Shi]

Dick I enjoyed the poem very much. I wasn’t satisfied about not sitting with folks at least part of Rohatsu. However, with my surgery so recent, Jundo advised against it. I’m trying not to do as much sitting at this time. Sitting next year. Sorry this ran long. I’ll watch it.
Gassho
sat/ lah


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