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$\"\"$ <\/a>\u201cLose your body beneath the patched robe\u201d is a line from a Stonehouse poem <\/a>(p. 11), brought to us by the great translator, Red Pine. The patched robe<\/em> refers to the kesa<\/a> (or o\u2019kesa for those of the Irish persuasion), the top garment worn by those committed to full time practice since the time of the Buddha.<\/p>\n

Stonehouse,\u00a0a 14th Century Chinese Ch\u2019an master, was one of the transmitters of Ch\u2019an to Korea via one of his students. He also had a deep love for the solitude of his mountain hermitage.<\/p>\n

I deeply love reading<\/em> the poems of hermit monks, especially just before sleep. Last night the line, \u201cLose your body beneath the patched robe,\u201d jumped up and off the page and into this blog post as a wonderful expression of the practice of home leaving.<\/p>\n

Losing the body<\/em> is one way that home leaving goes upstream, against the currents of the culture, generation after generation. Robes and bowls are usually used to support and maintain our lives. And although this is one practical aspect, of course, there is another aspect \u2013 losing the body<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to lose it anyway, of course, so why not practice diligently and realize that we\u2019ve already lost it?<\/p>\n

The significance of wearing robes and using bowls for our training, then becomes clear. Like a turtle, we carry our training container \u2013 the container we inherited \u2013 with us wherever we may go.<\/p>\n

In becoming the robes and bowls, we hide ourselves in the formless form of living dharma<\/a>. Losing ourselves we find that we express ourselves completely, no part left out.<\/p>\n

The opportunity is the same, of course, if the robes happen to be t-shirt and jeans and the bowls are paper plates. When we lose ourselves in t-shirt, jeans and paper plates, the formless form of the kesa fills the ten directions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"