Wednesday, December 2, 2020

December 2, 2020

 When you work with Wu Wei, 

                           
you put the round peg in the round hole and the square peg in the square hole.  

No stress, no struggle. 

 

    Egotistical Desire tries to force the round peg into the square hole and the square peg into the round hole.  

Cleverness tries to devise craftier ways of making pegs fit where they don't belong.  

    Knowledge tries to figure out why round pegs fit round holes, but not square holes. 

Wu Wei doesn't try. It doesn't think about it. It just does it. And when it does, it doesn't appear to do much of anything.  

But Things Get Done.

 Excerpted from The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff.


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Our ZHS on-line schedule

  • Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
  • Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
  • M-F: 7-7:30am - zazen
  • Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study
  • For more information:  www.zenheartsangha.org) 
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Special bows for today: 
  • Please continue to offer bows in honor of:
    • Nora Hayes-Roth, a dear young 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 off bows of well-being for dharma brother, Chris Schlesinger, who had a successful shoulder surgery on Monday, 11/30, and is recuperating at home
  • Please offer bows of well-being for Jim Little's daughter, Meara, and her boyfriend, Cody Mauser, who have contracted COVID
  • Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
    • Flip Dibner, who has been diagnosed with lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemotherapy but living 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 recovering at home undergoing chemotherapy; he is in the final month of his treatment.
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