I was going to start a series of talks yesterday on an old Zen writing … Master Dogen’s Bendowa (sometimes called “A Talk about Pursuing the Truth”) …
But our son, Leon, started throwing up at 4am … and I’ve been up all night and all day with him (he is better now, after the doctor gave him something. But my wife, Mina, is off at an Ai-ki-do tournament this week, so it is just me to take care of Leon).
That’s okay. In fact, that is practice, life … life-practice. A child’s moans are just a Sutra being chanted, his fever the Dharma (we have some parents in our Sangha with kids with physical conditions truly chronic and serious, much more than a passing stomach flu. Those families practice with this every day, and in a profound way I can barely imagine).
Master Dogen’s “Talk about Pursuing the Truth” will have to wait a couple of days, cause right now there is the truth of a sick child.
(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;
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