{"id":133,"date":"2010-09-16T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/09\/where-are-we-going\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:39:00","slug":"where-are-we-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/09\/where-are-we-going.html","title":{"rendered":"Where are We Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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I\u2019m off to Omaha tomorrow for a weekend sesshin and looking forward to seeing Nonin and his students. In June, I forgot my oryoki (major Zen teacher faux pas). And come to think of it, when I went to the Boundless Way sesshin in July I forgot to bring a napkin and the only replacement I could find was a white cloth with big bright carrots and tomatoes. I got to feel a little silly at every meal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So my mind is going. And here\u2019s a David Budbill poem for ya from Writer\u2019s Almanac on the same theme.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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The Woodcutter Changes His Mind<\/h2>\n

by David Budbill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When I was young, I cut the bigger, older trees for firewood, the ones
with heart rot, dead and broken branches, the crippled and deformed\n

ones, because, I reasoned, they were going to fall soon anyway, and
therefore, I should give the younger trees more light and room to grow.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m older and I cut the younger, strong and sturdy, solid
and beautiful trees, and I let the older ones have a few more years<\/p>\n

of light and water and leaf in the forest they have known so long.
Soon enough they will be prostrate on the ground.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Woodcutter Changes His Mind\u201d by David Budbill, from <\/span>While We\u2019ve Still Got Feet: New Poems<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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