Scope of awareness during zazen

[Tokan]

Hey all

Very simply for me, I don't push anything away or pull it towards me, if my awareness must be directed towards anything, it is non-attachment, until that too falls away.

Gassho, Tokan

satlah

[Tairin]

Just only sitting.

When I find that I’ve started to drift into thought I gently redirect my self to just sitting. Sometimes I catch it quickly…. Sometimes I find I might have been lost in thoughts for some minutes. Either way I gently redirect myself to just sitting.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Tai Shi]

I sit these mornings
To reverence, silence,
To lift my pen and sing
Words eternal,
Life of relevance
Dancing in stars of song
Voice of tropes, song
Of love, flowers, oh today,
What shall I sing, what
Shall I write with my voice
Of poetry, innocence,
Delight, knowledge, sapphire
Gold of deserted, quelled, words
Surround my neck of pain, lighter
Than the rain, Oh taste and sing
This is delight, this is poetry,
This is my life and family
What need of yea of more,
More than words presented
To my queen, my Marjorie
Of forty-two years, seeking
Rather fifty years, or one-hundred
Years, oh dear, thou stayed
With me though my brain
Infested with AVM, tumor
Sucking Oxygen from my
Right temporal lobe, now
A space twenty-two cm,
Long and deep into thinking
Tissue, my left, has taken over
Gifts of poetry, gifts of sound
And sentence, what need
Have I of more except your
Presence, of your love, sweet
Touch after I fell to eight
Feet, nearly lost my leg,
Rachel CNP, saw your love
Your innocence at sixty-eight
Now you are almost seventy
In am I still seventy-three,
Our child Dr Laurel Ann
She writes now for both of us,
Professor of Japanese, while
You shared your Mater
Of Arts, my Master of Fine
Arts, our poetry, now she writes
For both of us, we are old,
She translates with colleague
Books of Poetry, she is
Our poetry, or greatest song
Her birth, we sing of family.

Gassho
lah/sat