A Short Talk Beyond Like and Dislike

This week I’ve been back at work for the schools, getting ready for the year, and yesterday Tetsugan and I looked at a house that might have worked for Wild Fox Zen and my kids. It had been on the market for a year and then sold the same day we looked at it. Dang.

Wrapping up the week, I just enjoyed some of a Katagiri Roshi talk about the Genjokoan and found this sweet passage that I offer to you, dear reader.

Under all circumstances, we want to live. That desire comes from where? From your own desire? No, not your own desire.

For example, during WWII, when a bomb exploded I immediately ran and jumped into a fox hole and chanted the name of Amitabha. Was that is my desire? No way! Completely no choice.

Under all circumstances, everyone has great energy to live completely beyond like or dislike.

So please appreciate universal energy, this life, gifted to us from the beginningless past.

We already have great capacity.