Just returned from a dip into the stillness and quiet of the Tassajara valley. At one point I found myself sitting in the same zendo seat where I sat last fall during the practice period. There’s a fairly large gap in the wooden tan (or platform) there. I was sure I could feel it through my cushion, and this used to annoy me. Like sleeping on a lumpy mattress. This time, though, I regarded the crack with a kind of tenderness. I came back to my room and wrote:
Everything you’ve broken,
Everything broken in you,
For this too,
Gratitude.
Archives for December 2012
Meditating on Fire
The Association for Fire Ecology’s conference in Portland was a wonderful meeting of science and matters of the heart. In this photo, fire monk David Zimmerman leads a morning meditation.
Tomorrow, I am blessed to be heading down to Tassajara to sit Rohatsu, a traditional 7-day meditation intensive in honor of the Buddha’s enlightenment.