Dear All,
Our Rev. Kokuu has a lovely article, just published at Tricycle. It is behind a paywall.
Gassho, JundoMy Grass Roof Hermitage
A Soto Zen priest learns to embrace the life of a hermit while living with illness in a small space
I’ve built a grass hut where there’s nothing of value.
After eating, I relax and enjoy a nap…
Though the hut is small, it includes the entire world.
In ten square feet, an old man illumines forms and their nature.
—Shitou Xiqian (700–790 CE)
When I first heard Shitou Xiqian’s poem “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage,” I immediately identified with its message. Although I do not live in an 8th-century hut in China but rather a ground-floor flat in rural England in the third millennium CE, my life is limited to a small space similar to Shitou’s. For him, hermitage is out of choice. My own confinement is less voluntary, as it is the result of long-term illness. ...
https://tricycle.org/article/zen-chr...jivNlU2znyALsw
stlah
PS - I will also drop in that Tricycle recently ran a couple of my mumblings ...
Zen Monastic Practices at Home
https://tricycle.org/article/zen-practices-home/
What Do I, One Buddhist, Have to Offer?
https://tricycle.org/article/what-to-offer-zen/
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