{"id":294,"date":"2009-08-04T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/08\/on-the-tips-of-the-hundred-grasses\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:21:00","slug":"on-the-tips-of-the-hundred-grasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/08\/on-the-tips-of-the-hundred-grasses.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Tips of the Hundred Grasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Just back from walking Bodhi and shooting this, reminding me of a favorite Zen story. It was cooking beneath the surface because it comes up in the first <\/span>Keep Me In Your Heart Awhile Webinar<\/span><\/span><\/a> (btw, there\u2019s still room \u2013 begins on 8\/15 so register soon). It goes like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

Layman P\u2019ang cried out, \u201cDifficult, difficult, difficult, like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree!\u201d
\u201cEasy, easy, easy,\u201d returned Mrs. P\u2019ang, as would any true Zen partner, \u201cjust like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed.\u201d
\u201cNeither difficult nor easy,\u201d one-upped Ling-chao, their dutiful daughter, going beyond her parents, \u201con the tips of the hundred grasses, the Ancestors\u2019 meaning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What is on the tips of the hundred grasses?<\/p>\n

\u201cAll dharmas as they are, are fully experiencing one dharma,\u201d said Bokusan.<\/p>\n

Firewood is just firewood. Ash is just ash. Fear just fear. Joy just joy. So simple. And so easy to slip off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to take care of everything by fully experiencing one dharma, disrgarding its context, that is ignorance of one dharma,\u201d said Bokusan.<\/p>\n

A very important point. With each thing just itself, ignoring the context, lots of damaging behavior has been justified. This is pseudo Zen. Firewood also has a before and after. The full presentation of NOW arrives in context, including our personal stories.<\/p>\n

I turn again to Izumi Shikibu<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching the moon
at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out. (p. 89)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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