Another glorious Texas winter day today. I wish this house didn’t have a roof.
Tea, practice, tea, practice, tea, zazen, putsing in the garden, practice, practice, workout. Dave and I both working away at what we do. Awed by the intoxication of the mundane.
For 24 hours I’ve been simmering black beans in the crockpot. In case you didn’t know, black beans take FORVER to cook no matter how long they’ve been soaked. But they are like buttah, now!
“…Buddhism is just the real world, which can open just relying upon the practice. Without practicing Zazen there is no Buddhism. At the same time, however, if there were the practice of Zazen, we can easily open the the World of Buddhism at once, and this is the benevolence of Gautama Buddha. Therefore Master Dogen proclaimed…"This Rule of the Universe is abundantly present in each human being, but if we do not practice it, it does not manifest, and if we do not experience it, it cannot be realized. When we let go, it has already filled the hands; how could it be defined as one or many? When we speak, it fills the mouth; it has no restriction in any direction." - Gudo NISHIJIMA
Tea, practice, tea, practice, tea, zazen, putsing in the garden, practice, practice, workout. Dave and I both working away at what we do. Awed by the intoxication of the mundane.
For 24 hours I’ve been simmering black beans in the crockpot. In case you didn’t know, black beans take FORVER to cook no matter how long they’ve been soaked. But they are like buttah, now!
“…Buddhism is just the real world, which can open just relying upon the practice. Without practicing Zazen there is no Buddhism. At the same time, however, if there were the practice of Zazen, we can easily open the the World of Buddhism at once, and this is the benevolence of Gautama Buddha. Therefore Master Dogen proclaimed…"This Rule of the Universe is abundantly present in each human being, but if we do not practice it, it does not manifest, and if we do not experience it, it cannot be realized. When we let go, it has already filled the hands; how could it be defined as one or many? When we speak, it fills the mouth; it has no restriction in any direction." - Gudo NISHIJIMA
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