Misha's reading for Rohatsu:
from Old Path White Clouds by Thich Nhat Hanh
Chapter 18 "The Morning Star Has Risen"
Gautama felt as though a prison which had confined him for thousands of lifetimes had broken open. Ignorance had been the jailkeeper. Because of ignorance his mind had been obscured, just like the moon and stars hidde by the storm clouds.
Clouded by endless waves of deluded thoughts, the mind had falsely divided reality into subject and object, self and others, existence and non-existence, birth and death, and from these discriminations arose wrong views--the prisons of feelings, craving, grasping, and becoming. The suffering of birth, old age, sickness, and death only made the prison walls thicker.
The only thing to do was to seize the jailkeeper and see his true face. The jailkeeper was ignorance. And the means to overcome ignorance were the Noble Eight-fold Path. Once the jailkeeper was gone, the jail would disappear and never be rebuilt again.
(Photo by Pixie Couch)
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Special bows for today:
- Please continue to offer bows in honor of:
- Nora Hayes-Roth, a dear friend of Misha's, who died on 11/25/20
- Dan Pomeroy, a friend of dharma brother, Dainuri Rott, who died on 11/20/20
- Ofelia Mendez, Lilliana Mendez-Soto's aunt who died on 11/12/20; her relatives Jorge and his sister were able to be with her at the end
- Phyllis Merrill, Misha's mother, who died on 10/18/20
- Charles Kennicott Leech, Nancy's father who died on 10/9/20
- Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:
- Shannon's daughter, Lilith, who is suffering from complications from knee surgery
- Nancy Leech's mother, Doris Leech, who is recovering at home
- Flip Dibner, who undergoing chemotherapy while at home with wife, Diane Renshaw
- David Shaw, who suffered a stroke; he is home now with his wife, Nancy, and beginning the long slow process of rehabilitation
- Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is in the final month of chemotherapy
- From Kathleen: Irish open-air cellist strikes coronavirus lockdown chord. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55007563
- From Anna: a modern Heart Sutra: https://youtu.be/nvIGCMhjkvw
- Zen Heart Sangha website: resources about COVID-19: www.zenheartsangha.org
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