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    Opening the Hand of Thought - Chapter 7 Part 2

    Dear Bodhisattvas,

    We continue with the closing portions of Chapter 7, "Living Wide Awake", beginning from "The Bodhisattva Vow" on page 116 until the end.

    Because there is much here, and the first portion of the Chapter stimulated much discussion, we will take a few extra days to be with this.

    - What do you feel about all of us being described as "Bodhisattvas", and the importance placed on living by Vow?

    - I am really not sure how I feel about Uchiyama's interpretation of the story of Guixing, Fayuan and the stolen flour. Was Guixing just a tightwad, and an SOB (Son of a Buddha ), or is there some Teaching behind it all on his part, as the end of the story implies? However we feel about Guixing, Fayuan seems like the real hero of the story, ready to pay the price for his actions and not quitting. But, anyway, what do you think?

    - I believe that the last sections of this Chapter, on "Magnanimous Mind" (as well as "Parental Mind" and "Joyful Mind"), the scenery of life, and "the self living out the self that is only self" are one of the real highlights of the book, worth the whole price of admission. Learning to take life as it is, without goals and weighing win and lose all the time is a skill lost on people, perhaps more in the modern West than even in China or Japan of centuries past. How does this section strike you?

    Gassho, Jundo

    SatToday

    PS - A reMINDer that, after the current book, we will return to the Koans of the Book of Equanimity, reading the wonderful "this worldly" commentary by Shishin Wick. We worked with the book last year and will come back. The book is available for purchase here, which is a good thing to do ...

    http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Equan.../dp/0861713877

    Until you receive the book, it is also available in portions here ...

    https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=...page&q&f=false

    All of the Koans, but without Shishin's commentary, are available here ...

    http://terebess.hu/zen/shoyo-roku.html#wick

    For those new to Koans, some tips on reading the book can be found here ...

    http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showt...ANIMITY-Case-1
    Last edited by Jundo; 03-09-2016 at 03:39 AM.
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