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posted by Dog Hair at 11:36 AM
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
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What can I remember of the questions that you have talked of the past two Sundays:
That surely this day came into my life from Buddha.
To think of it as better than any other day, would be confusion.
It had much of the feeling of resting at home.
Sitting on the cushion, I watched myself, watching my thoughts. This was the dharma that gave me the feeling of ease, of giving effort and attention but not worrying or striving. It had some of the feeling of the wind moving through the trees and the patterns of sunlight dancing as the branches and the leaves moved.
Rising from the cushion, the wind continued to move and the sun continued to dance. And repeatedly, I fitted bamboo poles to the spaces between the boards of the fence so that there would be spaces but less space.
Riding on my bike on a trip home, I hit bumps in the road construction that really a bike is not made for. One tire blew out immediately and the other was flat in the morning. I fell but nothing broke.
When I returned, the mango and yogurt were so sweet, so good and the fire and the dogs and sitting without talking was communion.
I tried to explain it to Angela. The practice is direct. It simply makes real the teachings. Awareness has its chance without so many distractions from personality and discursive talk. The sitting is at once the symbol and the reality. It is not a getting oneself ready for anything else. The silence is shared between individuals without the individuals getting in the way of the sharing.
I experienced the three aspects of generosity -- the giving of things, the giving of fearlessness, the giving of dharma. Coming back in the darkness for the refuges, I stopped to buy a mango for you so that at least I could give something but the line was too long.
It was a wonderful day. Thank you so much for your generosity to me and to all of us.
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