No Lack of Blessings: Wholehearted Play Webinar 7

Here’s the webinar on the section from Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook that I call “No Lack of Blessings.” Click here (then once the Webex player rolls, View and Video).

Here’s part of the passage we worked through together, including some really beautiful phrases (“sacred embryo,” “one taste of the great sea,” “nurture sprouts of the way”) that one of the participants suggested I was getting attached too! Me?! Attached? Yes. And I’ll let it go here for you:

If you do not have a mind that is limited, as a matter of course there will be no lack of blessings…. Because when one enters into the pure and vast oceanic assembly of the buddha dharma, superb delicacies are never seen and the flavor of crude greens does not exist: there is only the one taste of the great sea, and that is all. Moreover, when it comes to the matters of nurturing the sprouts of the way and nourishing the sacred embryo, superb delicacies and crude greens are as one; there is no duality. There is an old saying that a monk’s mouth is like a stove. You must not fail to understand this. You should think that even crude greens can nourish the sacred embryo and nurture the sprouts of the way.