2010.11.05 19:00 - Various Possible Changes

The guardian for this session was Eliza Madrigal, filling in for a traveling Lucinda Lavender. Eliza will post the actual session, which is a discussion of I-Ching, Tao and Questioning, in the morning. :) For now, the following is part of the discussion and I wanted to paste while it was on the clipboard. hah. Nite.

 In this five-foot lump of red flesh there is a true
  person of no rank always coming in and going out;
  if you have not seen it yet, see it now!

   It is always coming and going in and out of our body.
   When it goes out, if we see a flower, we become a flower;
   when we hear a beautiful bird's song, we become a singing bird.
   When we go within, we are hungry, sleepy, hot, and cold.
   There is a true master like that within each of us.

  We see a river and we are flowing without pause.
   We see the sky full of stars and we become it all.
   We dive into the suffering of all people, into society's miseries.
   Within this is a true person of no rank.

                               Shodo Harada (1940 -- )