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Sitting zazen
like diligent Shakyamuni
under the Bodhi tree.
Drop your self and be!

Suffering and fear fade away.
This is Enlightenment Day.

Greetings Bodhisattvas of Creativity,

Want to give a recommendation to you. I’ve been reading a wonderful book called ‘The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin’ by Katsuhiro Yoshizawa. It’s full of Dharmic images by Hakuin coupled with studious commentary about the subject matter of his work.

Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) used painting as a practice and a teaching device (expedient means). His subject matter included prostitutes, Bodhisattvas, pissing pike men, Bodhidharma, performers and the colourf… Continue

A red spire smoulders
from St. Michael's sanctuary
while buried below
suppressed waters
of Cyriath flow.

Sitting samadhi
fused causation
incense dissapates.

As well as being a wonderful opportunity to practice mindfulness, meals also provide us with the teaching of interconnectedness.

What a gift it is to have a meal! How many countless beings, sentient and insentient, provide food for us?

When eating an apple compassion is manifesting itself. A seed, sun, rain and earth grew the tree (worms were covered in the previous blog blessing). Somehow the apple has been brought to us, most probably by several people.

When does the apple cease to be an ap… Continue

Meals are wonderful opportunites for Buddhist practice. Meal time can offer a unique opportunity to understand interconnectness. Here's a meal blessing I wrote for those frequent occassions:

This meal appears for many reasons,
from buzzy bees to nature's seasons . . .
long lovely worms never ceasing,
have churned the earth, ever releasing -
nutrients to grow farmer's seeds,
may it nuture us like old growth trees!
With blissful gratitude we deeply bow,
actualising and engaging the boundless Tao!