Living a life of vow

A record of my training as a chaplain and other things Zen.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Genjo Koan (Day 3) - Is everything in zen mu?

...all one boisterous cry of "Just this!"  "leaping free of the many and the one..." is to envelop it all at the same time.  No getting away from any of it; but always accessible is the realization that there is nothing to get away from.

Ach, zen-speak!

Here is me-speak:  My son is back home.  He is the same.  And he is changing moment to moment.  With equanimity (fleeting, but reoccuring), I stand in the midst of our lives, the past and future flow cold over my ankles.  My own boisterous cry is "Just this!" Then I see what needs doing....

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