BATHING DUSTING

Emptiness<– –>  Potency

“He’s back on that!”

There is something going on here within this blog space. I’ve written. You’re reading. Some spark of energy is flashing.

I’m with a guy. The guy goes into a room; he may be being bound or is binding himself. The guy apparently has difficulty with intimacy, especially being touched. 3 other guys come into the room and they are licking him. The first guy is in agony. When finished, he is now suing the three guys for inflicting trauma on him. I am feeling sympathetic towards the first guy’s trauma. I go to bed for the night, and one of the three guys that were licking him jumps into my bed and it turns out he is a giant bear and he wraps his arms around me. Feels good, amazingly intimate. I suddenly realize that all the other 3 “guys” are also animals and that the rules of “polite” human society don’t apply.  Zenho recent dream

Emptiness<– –>Potency

“He’s back on that!”

Are you pleased, sensing an opportunity here? Are you irritated, sensing a problem here? Are you bored, wanting to move on or away from here? Pleased or irritated or bored, you are feeling, an emotion. E(outward)motion. Here ripples every(w)here.

Meditation is essential. Experiencing that we don’t actually exist – while there is definitely existence. Ambiguity abounds. Are you pleased, sensing an opportunity here? Are you irritated, sensing a problem here? Are you bored, wanting to move on or away from here? Pesky feelings/emotions. Again and again and again…This blog, not so simple.

Go to sleep, drop it all. What is it! What is it! 

And then thoughts emerge, the offspring of feeling/emotion. Where does this come from. Ambiguity. Are you pleased, sensing an opportunity here, moving towards? Are you irritated, sensing a problem here, moving away? Are you bored, ignoring your moving toward or away from here? Are we even slightly aware of the feeling?

“The tantric approach to emotions is much more disciplined and much more personal. It’s highly personal; that is why this mandala (the mandala of emotion) is called the sacred mandala. It is very difficult to achieve, but it is also very important and extremely sacred. Normally, no one is able to achieve such perfection, or even to conceive of such a possibility. So we should respect the sacredness of the secret mandala.

The mandalas are reality. It is as simple as that. Of course reality is real, but our contact with reality is through our sense perceptions, our body, and our emotions – the three mandalas.”   Journey Without Goal, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Go to sleep….Thoughts emerge.

What happens, is happening, in the moment of change, changing. Something opens in us, accommodating the realization. AND something is opening in the entire Universe, accommodating the realization. A sparking. An irritating intimacy.

Dream koan practice is this accommodating. Working with perception, embodiment, feeling/emotion. Sacred practice. Sacred for the individual and our community.

I urge you to renew your commitment to this discipline. Practice is incomplete without commitment of meditation and commitment of dream-koan practice. Are you pleased, sensing an opportunity here? Are you irritated, sensing a problem here? Are you bored, wanting to ignore this calling? Asparkin! Irritating intimacy.

8 Deep Bows

Zenho (auteur) and Issan

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SACRED

Rain

And Snow

Late winter

Roof leaking

Carpet sodden

Wall blackening

Juniper orchard

Plush yellowing

Rosy finches

Dusting bathing

Achoo Achoo

Murky pond

Swallowing me 

Whole 

Hooooooo

            Zenho

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Noah Seltzer’s recent offering:

May all beings know their ease

may all beings know their greatness

know 

their particular 

flavor of

of God.

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SCHEDULE  APRIL 2- APRIL 9

MONDAY, 6:30AM, ZAZEN AT TEA HOUSE, DAVID KEKANSAN OPENING

MONDAY, 7PM, DREAM KOAN AT THE TEA HOUSE OR ZOOM

Drag your body to the Zendo, or Join Zoom Meeting
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TUESDAY, 6:30AM, ZAZEN AT THE TEA HOUSE OR ZOOM, WITH ZENHO. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86265616603?pwd=WHZEQWNDQnZPS1VicDl6VVlEdmxFZz09

WEDNESDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN AT THE TEA HOUSE OR ZOOM WITH ZENHO 
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THURSDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN AT THE TEA HOUSE WITH ISSAN 
DOKUSAN WITH ISSAN SENSEI

FRIDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN & SERVICE WITH ZENHO AT THE TEAHOUSE  DOKUSAN WITH ZENHO SENSEI