Thank you Sensei. I really really like the way you put it. Indeed, when we live it, everything just happens.
With your permission, I shall forward to two groups. JM Harvey So Daiho Hilbert wrote: > With palms together, > Good Morning Everyone, > > Our Zen is our life, not our rules or precepts or even our practices > about our life. It is very easy to confuse the two. Frankly it is > easier altogether to create a temple with a nice alter, beautiful > Buddha, and fragrant incense, than to walk the walk of Buddhist life. > Such a temple makes us feel like Buddhists, but if we are not buddhas > as we leave, drive our cars, interact with our friends and co-workers, > and go through our day, then the temple is really just a shallow idol > we pay homage to, a pretense, so to speak. > > Walking the walk requires us to actually make our practice our life > itself. The means we must think-feel our way through our precepts and > make them living expressions of our Buddha Nature. Sitting like a > buddha is not being a Buddha. > > We must ask ourselves how is our life informing our practice, how are > we actually being buddhas? Some might say we should "just sit" > sooner or later a light will go off. Yeah? So what? Unless we > change our life and go out into the world with that light, we might as > well be in the dark. > > To eat meat, not eat meat; to sit in witness or not sit in witness; to > be buddhas or pretend buddhas, has nothing to do with eating meat > or bearing witness, but it has everything to do, with being a Buddha. > These things, like the old story of polishing a tile to make it a > mirror, do not make us Buddhas or Buddhists. We are already Buddha. > Life is already Dharma. Humanity is our Sangha. It is our decision > to live our lives as Buddhas that makes a difference. > > How do you /do/ that? > > > > > > > > */Harvey Sodaiho Hilbert-roshi /* > Clear Mind Zen <http://www.clearmindzen.org/> > Web Log <http://clearmindzen.blogspot.com/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today! Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
