June 12-13th, 2015 - Memorial Zazenkai with Yugen: HONORING REV. ZENSHIN TIM BUCKLEY

[Dosho]

Beautifully done my friend...you did Tim proud, I'm quite sure.

Deepest bows.

Gassho,
Dosho

Sat today

[Jiken]

Yugen,

It was my honor.

Gassho

Jiken

[adrianbkelly]

June 12-13th, 2015 - Memorial Zazenkai with Yugen: HONORING REV. ZENSHIN TIM ...

Thanks everyone & thank you for your words, Yugen. I didn't know of Tim before news of his passing, but I I feel I know him a little now.

_/\_
Ade

Sat today

[Kyonin]

Hi everyone.

Just sat zazenkai thinking about Tim and all the teachers who have precede us. With total respect and gratitude.

Thank you Yugen.

Gassho,

Kyonin
#SatToday

[Jika]

Yugen and Shugen and everyone,

thank you very much.

Yugen, may I ask about one word, do you say "own" or "hold" the "integrity of your own practice"?
I am not sure I hear it right, and I feel the need to write it down.
Could you please correct me?

Deep bows,
Danny
#sattoday

[Yugen]

Hi Danny,
"Own the integrity of your practice"

Take responsibility for the direction and character of your practice. It is your and no one else's. Don't let anyone else tell you what you are or there is only one way to do this correctly. You will find this in your own heart and in a practice community you feel at home in.

Deep bows
Yugen


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[Jika]

Thanks, Yugen.

I got the meaning, just wanted to be sure of the exact words.

It seems to be one of the topics I let myself be followed by.

In the fractions between heartbeats, we are free, and completely ourselves, and noone.
Ringing a bell, that's where things get complicated.

Deep bows, to you and your mentor Tim,
Danny
#sattoday

[Matt]

Sitting this one now.

Gassho,
Matt

[Kyotai]

Wonderful Yugen. Much respect for Tim. I walked away from your talk with some wisdom you shared.

Gassho, Kyotai
Sat today

[Meishin]

One thing, don't waste any time. I've heard that in Zen circles for a long time. But hearing you say it, Yugen, it struck me like a blow in the gut. Always before it was don't waste time in the future, as in make good plans and follow through. But suddenly I got it that the time I dare not waste is precisely now. This moment. Don't be thinking about where I'm going next, what I'm about to experience, my hopes and dreams and fears. Don't waste this moment because it's not going to return. Feeling that, really feeling that, was like a light breaking through. Not so much emotional, as suddenly a principle in math that had previously been obscure was now simple and obvious. I am immensely grateful.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today

[Yugen]

June 12-13th, 2015 - Memorial Zazenkai with Yugen: HONORING REV. ZENSHIN TIM ...

One thing, don't waste any time. I've heard that in Zen circles for a long time. But hearing you say it, Yugen, it struck me like a blow in the gut. Always before it was don't waste time in the future, as in make good plans and follow through. But suddenly I got it that the time I dare not waste is precisely now. This moment. Don't be thinking about where I'm going next, what I'm about to experience, my hopes and dreams and fears. Don't waste this moment because it's not going to return. Feeling that, really feeling that, was like a light breaking through. Not so much emotional, as suddenly a principle in math that had previously been obscure was now simple and obvious. I am immensely grateful.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today

Deep bows Meishin,

You help keep this teaching alive for me as well today, right now.

Yugen


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[Jundo]

One thing, don't waste any time. I've heard that in Zen circles for a long time. But hearing you say it, Yugen, it struck me like a blow in the gut. Always before it was don't waste time in the future, as in make good plans and follow through. But suddenly I got it that the time I dare not waste is precisely now. This moment. Don't be thinking about where I'm going next, what I'm about to experience, my hopes and dreams and fears. Don't waste this moment because it's not going to return. Feeling that, really feeling that, was like a light breaking through. Not so much emotional, as suddenly a principle in math that had previously been obscure was now simple and obvious. I am immensely grateful.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today

Lovely, lovely!

This should to be engraved in all our hearts.

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Mp]

One thing, don't waste any time. I've heard that in Zen circles for a long time. But hearing you say it, Yugen, it struck me like a blow in the gut. Always before it was don't waste time in the future, as in make good plans and follow through. But suddenly I got it that the time I dare not waste is precisely now. This moment. Don't be thinking about where I'm going next, what I'm about to experience, my hopes and dreams and fears. Don't waste this moment because it's not going to return. Feeling that, really feeling that, was like a light breaking through. Not so much emotional, as suddenly a principle in math that had previously been obscure was now simple and obvious. I am immensely grateful.

Gassho
Meishin
Sat today

I also agree with Yugen and Jundo on this one ... A truly beautiful expression. =)

Deep bows
Shingen

#sattoday

[Jinyo]

Thank you Yugen - I will sit with this during the week.

What a rich and fascinating life your friend and mentor lived.

Gassho

Willow

[Yugen]

June 12-13th, 2015 - Memorial Zazenkai with Yugen: HONORING REV. ZENSHIN TIM ...

Dear all,
A postscript - I went to the Memorial Service for Tim on Sunday - organized by his friend Kotatsu John Bailes. Tim's teacher Yozen Peter Schneider came out from California, Myozen Jane Amaral, Dosho Port, and Tetsugan Zummach were also present.

It was an emotional gathering. What impressed me most was the love expressed for Tim, with full acceptance and recognition of the fact that he was a difficult and complicated person. What made Tim so gifted and relevant as a teacher and friend was that he did not hide this, but instead made it the fabric of his practice - a very rich practice. He encouraged me, challenged me, to embrace my own difficult and complicated life - he welcomed me unconditionally (and there were rough spots in our relationship) - to this extent we can say we are all difficult and complicated - and our practice has enough depth to embrace this - it does not undo the difficulty or complication or make it go away - but allows us to face it and live gracefully with our own complicated selves.

The spirit of equanimity and reconciliation at this service was remarkable - in the end all things are resolved and return to the origin, to the great essence. Peter Schneider was remarkably welcoming to me - I reintroduced myself (we had met at the Great River Zendo dedication several years ago) and reminded him I was Jundo's student - he commented favorably about Treeleaf. He told me Tim had spoken to him about us.... Peter insisted I wear my Kesa and join the gathering. It was an important coming together.

Thank you all again.

Deep bows
Yugen


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