Here is the kesa I am sewing being given to a Buddha tree in front of my school.
Gassho
T.
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Here is the kesa I am sewing being given to a Buddha tree in front of my school.
Gassho
T.
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very nice. What is a "Buddha Tree"?
Gassho
C
Amazing beauty Taigu, well done! =)
Deep bows
Shingen
A tree as any sentient being is a Buddha.
Gassho
T.
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Fallen patches
On cold ground
Bare tree
No tree
Kasaya
Still wrapped round
Taigu, deep bows to your Dharma Eye,
Myozan
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Lovely, Taigu!
Gassho,
Daitetsu
-Does a tree have buddha-nature?
-Leaves whispering in the wind.
Gassho
Kantai
Beautiful Taigu! :-)
Gassho, Jishin
It's very very beautiful.
Yes! Trees are Buddha!
Thank you, Taigu.
Gassho,
Kyonin
That's beautiful, Taigu. Giving a kesa to a tree is a lovely idea. Is there a tradition of this in Japan?
Gassho
Andy
[QUOTE]...Ask no more.
Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs.
Ryonen [/QUOTE]
Gassho
Taikyo
Taigu,
It's beautiful. Thank you
Gassho
Yugen
Thank you for sharing Taigu, it is amazing and beautiful! Such a lovely gift!
Gassho,
Kelly/Jinmei
Beautiful Kesa and lovely gesture.
/\ Anne
Yes! A new tradition is born!
Wrapping trees in the kesa.
Hanging a rakasu from the branches.
Wonderful!
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Thanks all. I understand; just thought there was some tradition or custom I knew nothing of.
Gassho
C
Wow. That is lovely.
Gassho,
Juki
A very old tradition, Myozan, as priests used to sit as birds perched in trees. An old tradition as forest monks used to hang kesa on trees to get them stained.
anyway I have 9 more stripes to sew....
gassho
T.
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for sharing, Taigu.
Gassho Daizan
That is beautiful, Taigu, the colours are just amazing.
Gassho,
Joyo
Hello,
Nice work.
Thank you.
Gassho,
Myosha
That is seriously beautiful.. what skill!
Gassho,
Risho
Lovely!
Gassho
Shugen
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This is the whole thing so far
Gassho
T.
Taigu,
Such an amazing teaching. It's the ocean and the sky.
Gassho
Myozan
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It's beautiful - love the colours
Gassho
Lucy
Deep BowsQuote:
Great is the robe of liberation,
a formless field of benefaction
Buddhas have authentically transmitted it
ancestors have intimately received it.
Beyond wide, beyond narrow,
beyond cloth, beyond threads;
maintain it thus,
then you are the keeper of the robe.
Ryokan
Taikyo
There is a tradition in Cornwall, and other Celtic areas, of tying colourful strips of cloth to tree branches above holy wells. There is usually one tree which is covered in bright rags. It's still done in Cornwall as a kind of offering to the tree and the well. http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/images/sites/madron_well.jpg.
Lucy,
Rag wells are something different than an offering to the tree and well - more an act of sympathetic magic. The rags are taking from a person who is sick or suffering and the idea is that in the presence of a holy tree and well as the rag decays and the illness is taken from that, so the person will be cured. A similar
I do love the look of the trees when they are covered with rags, though, and imagine that offerings to trees were not uncommon in animistic cultures, maybe even Japanese Shinto.
Gassho
Andy
That's interesting Andy. Thanks. When I was younger and lived in Cornwall, we would tie the rags as an offering to the tree and water and the whole of nature. It's obviously changed meaning a bit over time and space...or maybe we were just a bit odd in Cornwall ;-)
Very good :)
Gassho _/|\_
Please show us when done. It's quite beautiful.
Gassho
C
Andy,
With all due respect you are here missing the point.
Tree? Kesa? Rags? do you see? Do you sew ? Do you spend hundred of hours doing this stupid thing? You are smart and sound like my old scholar self. Give it a rest.
I ll be glad to meet you on the cushion in Washington this summer...
Gassho with needle-cloud-mountain-as-daily-body-and-all-the-f......-rest-of-it
OUR KOAN!
T.
Thank you for all the words and the teachings.
Gassho,
Heion