Today, some more to do in our “How To” Zazen …
Life is a million things to do. These days, all of us are juggling so much …
Is Buddhism a teaching of passivity? Must it mean withdrawal from the world?
Not at all!
“Just Sitting” Shikantaza is stillness … whether sitting or when moving.
We never leave our True Home … though there are places we must go.
Whether ‘stopping to smell the roses’ or working hard in the office or factory … it is all quiet (we learn to be at rest while not).
We drop all likes and dislikes … while simultaneously choosing what we like.
The world is embraced ‘just-as-it-is’ … then we change what we can.
Dogen taught True Goallessness … but was a man of many goals.
Like two sides of a single coin …
For there is nothing to achieve … amid a million things to accomplish.
(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;
a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended)
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