Constructing and tearing down your hermitage

[Al]

"Home is where the heart is"

I would say, however, "Heart is where the home is, and the home is everywhere"

Poets, sages, & monks in ancient times made their hermitages on the sides of mountains, in forests, in jungles. Your hermitage has already sprung up around you. It is apartment walls so thin you can hear your neighbors shouting. It is a backyard fence with dogs barking on the other side. Your hermitage is the bus you ride to work in the morning, rolling across the earth. You have no control over it, you can't protect it from the weather or the heat, but you can appreciate it.

It is yours, this hermitage, this life. Kodo says "everyone is homeless." Where does your heart go?

Gassho and thank you for being here.

[Jundo]

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Gassho Shinkai.

[Omoi Otoshi]

Constructing and tearing down your hermitage

Home is everywhere, everyone is homeless.

Thank you,
Pontus

[pinoybuddhist]

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[Ryumon]

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"Wherever I lay my hat is my home..."

[OcoochZenHermitage]

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It is true that "I" am a hermit, even amidst the crowds. Yet as it seems we have to choose some place to live, being in a quiet natural setting, resonates for this hermit.

Sid

[Omoi Otoshi]

Constructing and tearing down your hermitage

Yes, it seems that way. We create a home and build thick walls for safety.

A quiet, natural setting is lovely, wonderful. It makes it so much easier to see and appreciate the wholeness, the perfection of the universe. But quiet and natural can be everywhere, even in the midst of hell, can't it? The feeling of being completely at home, with nowhere to go. Our heart's innermost desire fullfilled. But in our delusion, it rarely feels that way...

Gassho,
Pontus

[TomB]

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"My home is on my back."
~ Bill Monroe

[Shokai]

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Thank you for sharing this Shinkai

[Jinyu]

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May life remain our temple, now, and now, and...

Deep gassho Shokai!
Jinyu

[Shohei]

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Thank you Shinkai!

Gassho
Shohei

[Kaishin]

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Bloom where you're planted

[Koshin]

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Thank you for the reminder Shinkai... I always believed that my head was my home.... but know with Zazen my head/home is getting bigger, but at the same time without hard edges.... and a little less head and a little more heart :wink:

I think I am getting better the "life is our temple" motto

Thank you, and all the members of the Sangha

Gassho

[pinoybuddhist]

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Shinkai I'd like your permission to repost this in my blog. Pretty please? I want to share this with others.

"Home is where the heart is"

I would say, however, "Heart is where the home is, and the home is everywhere"

Poets, sages, & monks in ancient times made their hermitages on the sides of mountains, in forests, in jungles. Your hermitage has already sprung up around you. It is apartment walls so thin you can hear your neighbors shouting. It is a backyard fence with dogs barking on the other side. Your hermitage is the bus you ride to work in the morning, rolling across the earth. You have no control over it, you can't protect it from the weather or the heat, but you can appreciate it.

It is yours, this hermitage, this life. Kodo says "everyone is homeless." Where does your heart go?

Gassho and thank you for being here.

[Al]

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Shinkai I'd like your permission to repost this in my blog. Pretty please? I want to share this with others.

Sure, feel free, and thank you.