The Air Humans Fly In: Genjokoan Webinar 8

Here’s webinar 8 on the Genjokoan (click here and when the video roles, click View and Video). 

Palpable community development in here in the cyber version of Wild Fox Zen. I’m very encouraged to continue playing in this air. Here’s the passage we’re working this week. 

What story from your life illuminates a piece of this?


When a fish swims, no matter how far it goes,
it doesn’t reach the end of the water. 
When a bird flies, no matter how high it flies,
it cannot reach the end of the sky. 
Only, when their activity is great, their range is large. 
When their activity is small, their range is  small.
In this way, each fish and each bird uses the whole space
and vigorously acts in every place.
However, if a bird departs from the sky, or a fish leaves the water,
they immediately die.
We should know that, water means life, sky means life.
A bird is life; a fish is life.  Life is a bird; life is a fish. 
And we should go beyond this. 
There is practice-enlightenment – the way of limited and unlimited life.