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2008-06-30T17:37:00-06:00

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Drumming and Singing Spring Forth Together

Last updated on: June 30, 2008 at 5:37 pm By Dosho Port

Once during a sesshin with Katagiri-roshi, we performed a memorial service for a member who had died a year or two previously. As the chant leader, I intoned the dedication, asking the bodhisattvas for their true compassion for the dead person and for all of us. I sang the words according to the way I had been taught, but I didn’t feel it. That evening in dokusan, I asked Roshi with a confrontational tone, “Isn’t praying for help from outside... Read more

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2008-06-29T08:22:00-06:00

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Sound and Noise

Last updated on: June 29, 2008 at 8:22 am By Dosho Port

Stumbled on this video of Suzuki-roshi and the theme reminded me of James’ Monkey Mind thoughts on koans. For those of you who know Reb Anderson, there’s a surprise at the end of the video…. Read more

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2008-06-29T08:19:00-06:00

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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

Last updated on: June 29, 2008 at 8:19 am By Dosho Port

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2008-06-28T16:57:00-06:00

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Pieces of A Broken Heart

Last updated on: June 28, 2008 at 4:57 pm By Dosho Port

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2008-06-28T06:09:00-06:00

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Peonies and Thistles

Last updated on: June 28, 2008 at 6:09 am By Dosho Port

The abundant spring rains helped the peonies bloom wondrously full this year. And then the storm of yesterday afternoon blew most of the petals hither and thither. Such a beautiful flower, so delicate, and so short lived. I trimmed the heads off the peonies this morning, wondering if it really helped the plant or if this was another cultural way of looking away from death. Then wandering through the Poetry Foundation website I found a poem about thistles, Katagiri-roshi’s favorite... Read more

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2008-06-26T06:53:00-06:00

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Of The Terrible Doubt Of Appearances

Last updated on: June 26, 2008 at 6:53 am By Dosho Port

From “The Writers Almanac” By Walt Whitman LISTEN Of the terrible doubt of appearances,Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be... Read more

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2008-06-25T21:24:00-06:00

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A Divided Life

Last updated on: June 25, 2008 at 9:24 pm By Dosho Port

Although my legal name is “Dosho” and for me it is an important aspect of priest practice to use my dharma name, at work I go by “Mike.” Sometimes I wish that I’d also introduced myself as “Mike” when I moved here a few years ago rather than have my neighbors struggle with “Doshu,” “Dusho,” and “Dush-ho” Listening to my small group of students, I know I’m not alone in sometimes feeling my life is cut in two – Zen... Read more

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2008-06-23T09:28:00-06:00

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Butterflies and Karma

Last updated on: June 23, 2008 at 9:28 am By Dosho Port

A friend of mine is a Theravadan nun. Several years ago she did a retreat with an elderly monk in Sri Lanka. The monk had a bad limp and explained to my friend that his leg was messed up because of his karma – he had kicked a dog in a previous life. Karma is “action + intention,” not simply “cause and effect” as it is often understood and translated. One of the Buddha’s great discoveries was that we are... Read more

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2008-06-22T11:20:00-06:00

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Compassion and Generosity are Fun

Last updated on: June 22, 2008 at 11:20 am By Dosho Port

I found this talk by Robert Thurman at Ted: Ideas Worth Spreading. Thurman came to the Minnesota in the late 70’s and early 80’s several times, once to talk about his translation of the Vimalakirti Sutra and then as a translator for his teacher Tara Tulku’s teachings on wisdom and compassion. I listened to the tapes from these talks many times as I drove to work at a local juvenile center. I once picked Katagiri-roshi up from the airport after... Read more

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2008-06-20T06:03:00-06:00

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On the Tips of the Hundred Grasses

Last updated on: June 20, 2008 at 6:03 am By Dosho Port

“On the tips of the hundred grasses, the ancestors’ true meaning,” said the precocious Ling-chao to her dad, Layman P’ang. The issue of the true meaning of the ancestors is a significant one in Zen because we’re an ancestral tradition, handed on person to person and not a revealed path. Buddha, Dogen, and all the great teachers, as well as all the not-so-great teachers in the Zen lineages (in the story of Zen, at least) have rediscovered this wondrous way... Read more

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