LOVE AND GENEROSITY

“The deity Light of Beautiful Flower Garlands found the door of liberation of pure light illumining the bodies of all sentient beings and causing them to produce oceans of joy and faith.”  – Avatamsaka Sutra

BOUNDLESS LOVE

What is the desire creating my emergence……..The infinite full-of-emptiness womb…..nurturing without judgment…..All the possibilities…..And even more possibilities…..For the flourishing of….Lives Love….Propelled from her Ocean of Reality….Into this salty wet confusion….Wave crashing against wave….And rock….And sky. ..And where do I belong….When nothing seems quite so good….As what I knew before knowing…..What came before without time and space….And the trauma confusion….Now of change….Always change…..The aching discomfort of change…..One peach devoured in this five year old mouth…..Sticky juice flowing from lips to lap….Immmersed in longing…And my older eye consumed by the ground swallowed….Rotting peach……Unable….Unwilling…..To absorb the changing ….Flower and bird and bee and …Fruit falling to ever willing Earthtomb….Beetles and birds and bees….One year….Eons….For to embrace this….Is to embrace my very own body….As food for the beetles and birds and bees….Which is quite painful…..In confusion….And different when fed….From love and generosity….What is the desire creating my emergence

We often enter our practice from a place of lacking. From a place of overwhelm by the confusion of “There is something WRONG with me.” All Buddhas agree that there is only the RIGHTNESS of me that is interpenetrated by the Field beyond right and wrong. From the confusion that has descended upon us, it appears necessary to experience the RIGHTNESS first. This RIGHTNESS is nurtured by the enlightening of Mother Prajnamaramita’s love and generosity. All that is this great Earth and I and Mother Prajnaparamita are.

Tantra is about the path of intimacy that leads inexorably, through joy and pain and bliss and grief, to deeper and deeper conscious experience of love and generosity and me-as-you and you-as-me and me-as-Earth and me-as-me and Me-as-Mother-Prajnaparamita.

The union in Tantra may be between two people walking a path of hearts pure in the intention of mutual love and generosity. The union may be between a person and their art…a person and their music…a person and their sport…a person and their puppy dog…or kitty…or the whales in the ocean…or the rising and falling of the ocean…or feeding wild birds…a person and their previously mundane appearing work…and on and on.

Until we find that spark of love and generosity that propels us into the practices of union, we tend to abuse all those around us. In confusion. This not our fault by the way. Not our fault. Not our fault . Merely a preparatory phase on the path, like rotting fruit carrying the seed.

When the spark lands and ignites, walk your path wholeheartedly. Never explain or justify…those who do not feel the spark will not understand until they’ve received the gift of the spark. It is Mother Prajnaparamita’s gift. No need to caretake and believe it can be our (ego’s) responsibility to provide the spark. Follow your path wholeheartedly in love and generosity, giving and receiving love and generosity. In the field beyond right and wrong, there is only love and generosity.

8 Deep Bows,

Zenho (author) and Issan Sensei

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What is wrong? What is wrong?

The baby wails 

Just born in her mother’s arms

 מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

The young man in helmet and boots

Blinks towards the beating desert sun

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

Weeps the Autumn tree

Bursting in gold

Burnt at its roots

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

Whisper a wrinkled couple 

Behind a newspaper stained with coffee and tears

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

Cries the muddy child

Wrapped around his ab(a)(u)’s legs

Shivering within concrete walls

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

The bruised and bleeding man

Bawls into his Passing

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخطأ؟

What is wrong? What is wrong?

Shouts the night 

Embroidered with stars

Ablaze with metal and fire

מה לא בסדר?

ما هو الخط

-Noah Selzter

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SCHEDULE October 8-October 15

Note: Zenho will be traveling in Nepal 10/10/23 – 11/2/23

MONDAY, 6:30AM, ZAZEN AT TEA HOUSE,

NO DREAM KOAN AT THE TEA HOUSE OR ZOOM

TUESDAY, 6:30AM, ZAZEN AT THE TEAHOUSE, ANDY OPENING

WEDNESDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN AT THE TEA HOUSE

THURSDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN & SERVICE AT THE TEA HOUSE   

DOKUSAN WITH ISSAN SENSEI

FRIDAY, 6:30AM: ZAZEN AT THE TEAHOUSE