{"id":425,"date":"2009-01-03T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/taking-care-of-small-details-with-long-ranged-hope\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T11:06:00","slug":"taking-care-of-small-details-with-long-ranged-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/01\/taking-care-of-small-details-with-long-ranged-hope.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking Care of Small Details with Long-ranged Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Coyote scat dropped in the woods, as in the photo,\u00a0needs no caring although comes alive through our attention to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Anyway, here\u2019s my last post on this thread for now. I worry that this \u201ctaking care of small details\u201d might lead to a one-sidedness in practice. And I tell myself that when we attend to one side the other side is dark. So I\u2019ll come back to doing what I can to shine a little light on the other side soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Here\u2019s Katagiri Roshi\u2019s thoughts that prompted this thread:<\/span><\/div>\n

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To change your life is not your business.\u00a0
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If you\u00a0<\/span><\/span>try<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0to change your life through your intellectual sense you won\u2019t be satisfied no matter how much you change.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to change your life, practice forming a habit of doing small things with the body and mind.\u00a0 If you do this continually your life will be changed beyond your expectation.\u00a0 You will really become a soft, peaceful, harmonious, gentle person.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is example in Japan of a famous psychologist (note: maybe Morita) who cured a young girl from a so-called \u201cnervous breakdown.\u201d She was from a very rich family. This psychologist met this young girl regularly.\u00a0 Whenever he met the young girl he didn\u2019t do anything, he didn\u2019t say anything.\u00a0 He just sat with her.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One day, this young girl had to pee.\u00a0 So right in front of this psychologist who was a nice gentleman, wearing nice suits, the girl peed on the floor. Immediately, this gentleman took a beautiful handkerchief from his pocket and cleaned the floor, soaking up her urine. Without any hesitation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Later she completely recovered.\u00a0 After her recovery, she confessed to this gentlemen.\u00a0 She said \u201cI was really impressed by cleaning my urine with a clean, fresh, neat, white handkerchief.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know why he could recover this person without doing anything; only he just cleaned her pee.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How can you cultivate this kind of great, lovely character?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not by intellectual process.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 You have to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>practice<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0living in vow, taking care of your life with a long-range view, with long-ranged hope.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Saicho, founder of Tendai school in Japan, said \u201cilluminate one corner.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A corner is just a corner, not a whole. Every day if you practice the little things without any satisfaction of individual desire, just doing continually, then your personality, your life, will be established.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know what kind of personality will come.\u00a0 You don\u2019t know intellectually.\u00a0 But if people see you, immediately people are impressed by this person who has been practicing like this for long time, day by day.\u00a0Anyway, so it is other people\u2019s business, not yours.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At that time it is just like to light one candle.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you take a trip on the Ganges River, people try to go to the center, middle of the Ganges River.\u00a0 It\u2019s huge. Right in the middle there is no need for your particular effort.\u00a0 You just be there.\u00a0 The Ganges River carries your boat exactly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you practice like this finally you can find the rhythmical, natural practice of life.\u00a0 Then real easy.\u00a0
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This is called by the name of arhat stage you will reach. That is called\u00a0no retrogression<\/span><\/span><\/span>, no back sliding, so-called\u00a0spiritual security<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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First stage of arhat is called\u00a0stream winner<\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0If you get to stage of stream winner then that is the first stage of Buddhist<\/a> practice.\u00a0Buddhist practice starts from there.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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It is pretty easy, forming a habit of doing small things on an everyday basis, then you can get to middle of Ganges River and then just going.\u00a0 Before you reach the middle of Ganges River we always feel hard.\u00a0 Most people give up because they don\u2019t believe life for long range.\u00a0 Always people see life for short range.\u00a0 That\u2019s why it\u2019s pretty hard.\u00a0 People become nervous, irritated, cold, nervous breakdown, stress. Lots of stuff.\u00a0
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I encourage you to take a view of human life for the long range, for an unlimited-ranged hope, okay?\u00a0
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I think you can get the middle of Ganges River where your boat, your life, is just going in peace and harmony.\u00a0 At that time a sense of gentleness, generosity, and majesty will come forth from each pore of your body.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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