To You (Zen & Zazen 89), June 3rd 2024

30 minutes of silent sitting followed by a Zoom talk and discussion in English with Chinese translation. Sitting instructions: • Invitation to online z...
Todays topic:
Quotes from Sawaki Kodo Roshi, "To You":
People are impressed by strange things. You only need to be a
little different and the whole world is impressed.
Some are strong, like lions. Others are long, like snakes. Others
can see even at night, like weasels. Some have their young
stolen one after the other, until the day when someone breaks
their neck, like chickens. Some are taken advantage of their
whole lives long, and in the end they are slaughtered and eaten,
even the bones and the skin are put to use, like cows. Others
always have a place on a woman’s lap, where they’re happy, like
tomcats. All of that is karma. It is neither good nor bad.
In the end, a person whose karma is too good falls headfirst
into hell.
Online "Zen and Zazen" every Monday from 20:00~20:50 Japanese time (12:00 in Central Europe during the winter, 13:00 during the summer), hosted by my friend Xuan:
xuan.yoga/zen-and-zazen/
Zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/82680384333
Passcode: xuanyoga
Donations: sendaba.hatenablog.com/entry/...
Next Zen and Zazen class will be on June 10th.
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My Karma was so good that I had to make my own hell. Mainly by having too much fun and ending up a burnt out drug addict and lone parent. Don't worry, this forced me to accept life and death, so much better now.