{"id":75,"date":"2011-03-07T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/03\/more-mercy-now\/"},"modified":"2011-03-07T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:20:00","slug":"more-mercy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/03\/more-mercy-now.html","title":{"rendered":"More Mercy Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

We had a fine sesshin in Pittsburgh, thanks to Kyoki and all her crew. Rained all day on Saturday and then snowed on Sunday, making me feel right at home.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The sesshin theme was continuous practice<\/i> and so I shared this to start from Mary:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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\u2026We all could use a little mercy now
I know we don\u2019t deserve it
But we need it anyhow
We hang in the balance
Dangle \u2018tween hell and hallowed ground
Every single one of us could use some mercy now<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve posted a different version of this song before but (thanks to Ryan) we played this one at the end of the sesshin during informal tea.<\/span>\n

I\u2019ll have more about continuous practice in the coming days so if you are interested in that kinda thing, stay tuned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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In the photo below, instead of \u201ccheese\u201d I said \u201cBuddha schmooda.\u201d Kyoki seems to have liked that.<\/span><\/div>\n
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