{"id":455,"date":"2008-12-05T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/12\/katagiris-persimmon\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:04:00","slug":"katagiris-persimmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2008\/12\/katagiris-persimmon.html","title":{"rendered":"Katagiri’s Persimmon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Katagiri Roshi liked persimmons but may have enjoyed the persimmon most as a metaphor for spiritual development.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I remembered this last week while grocery shopping. At my local supermarket\u00a0I spotted a few lonely persimmons tucked between the grapes and the strawberries.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I know persimmons well from eating many during my stay in Japan. They were on a very short list of fruits and vegetables served at the monastery. So I bought a couple and served a ripe one last night at the Dogen study group. Sweet, luscious texture, and slightly chalky aftertaste.<\/div>\n
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Roshi liked to say that spiritual maturity was like the persimmon, hanging unassumingly on a tree, and when finally becoming very ripe and soft, so ripe the stem itself dissolves and the persimmon falls to the ground, SPLAT!<\/div>\n
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Roshi would then lean back his head and laugh, often alone. \u201cSo we\u2019re practicing to go splat?\u201d I wondered to myself.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I now nod and smile to myself \u2026 yes.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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