Wild Fox Zen
Here’s the one-flavored Zen webinar from Saturday. Click here (and select View and Video after it gets rolling). This week we reviewed the flow of the text so far (e.g., work together, attend to the intimate details of your mind at work, make something great from your wilted-lettuce life, take responsibility, realize the fundamental) and then worked with this passage from Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook:
You disciples who come after me, thoroughly contemplate there in accordance with here and thoroughly contemplate here in accordance with there. If you make this kind of effort, you will be able to obtain in written words the Zen of a single flavor. If you are not like this, you will be subjected willy-nilly to the poison of the Zen of five flavors, and when it comes to arranging the monks’ meals, you will not be able to do it skillfully.
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