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    kannon

    Compassion like a tiger would leap
    A subtle and sudden bloom
    A rash
    A slow rush
    Kannon s action is fueled
    By the wounds and scars
    Yours
    Theirs
    everybody's

    Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
    She-he gives arms to the invisible
    Ears to songs and words themselves
    Kannon appears unoticed
    Ordinary miracles
    Sweat, laughs, grease,
    Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
    Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
    sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
    in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
    Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

    when you give this self to zazen
    it becomes you
    but it comes unoticed
    you cannot see it
    cannot hear it
    can't even touch it
    only once it's gone
    only then

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    Re: kannon

    Quote Originally Posted by Taigu
    when you give this self to zazen
    it becomes you
    but it comes unoticed
    you cannot see it
    cannot hear it
    can't even touch it
    only once it's gone
    only then
    i put my forehead to the floor
    and quietly repeat
    gassho

    Greg

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    Thank you...

    Gassho,

    Dokan
    We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
    ~Anaïs Nin

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    Whoooosssh!

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    Today as we visit my wife's dying grandmother
    She holds her hand and I hold hers.
    No words are necessary
    As Kannon speaks

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    Take care

    It is always with you

    Gassho

    T.

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    Whenever I look and listen closely I hear her calling me, living in every bit of reality.

    My deluded self and my inner demons try to not see her, but then I calm myself and I see clear again if only for a moment.

    But Kannon is life. And I live there too.

    Thank you, Taigu.
    Hondō Kyōnin
    奔道 協忍

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    _/\_
    Sent from my SGH-i917 using Board Express
    Thanks,
    Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
    Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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