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#2276 - Sunday, October 2, 2005 - Editor: Gloria Lee
"They make their loving clearer and clearer.
No wantings, no anger. In that purity
they receive and reflect the images
of every moment,
from here,
from the stars,
from the void.
They take them in
as though they were seeing
with the Lighted Clarity
that sees them."
~ Rumi, Mathnawi
by Coleman Barks, in: Delicious Laughter from
unsaymyself
Praise for In Buddha's Kitchen:
"The sweet potato queens meet Pema
Chödrön in this book about 'enlightenment having'—as a
Tibetan teacher might phrase it—in the kitchen of a
California Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. In this book, the
Buddhist dharma (teaching) comes from the stove instead of the
meditation cushion, making it concrete, engaging and generally
highly entertaining. Snow has a gift for applying Tibetan
Buddhist teaching, which can seem foreign or esoteric, to real
life with its quirky demands and characters. This is a small
jewel, and it's altogether refreshing to read a Buddhist book
with a sense of humor."
—Publishers Weekly
"Snow cooks up a sumptuous meal, rich with laughter and wisdom. Five-star cuisine for pilgrims in search of enlightenment!"—Philip Zaleski, editor of the Best Spiritual Writing series
In Buddha's Kitchen Cooking, Being Cooked, and Other Adventures in a Meditation Center By Kimberley Snow Description of In Buddha's Kitchen:
"Kimberley Snow offers an outrageously funny and honest account of her adventures as head cook at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center. With her earthy sensibility and sharp sense of humor, the author shows this world in a light devoid of preciousness—while expressing with heart the integrity of the spiritual work being undertaken. We come away from our visit to this exotic realm having found it both extraordinary and surprisingly familiar. The neuroses, obsessions, and petty concerns exposed by Snow—both in herself and her fellow staff members—prove to be grist for the mill for discovering the grace inherent in life just as it is."
As I Am,
Mazie
Words of Wisdom by
Ch’an Master Sheng Yen
Buddhadharma does not negate the world and phenomena, nor does it
teach people to escape from the world.
It teaches people to liberate themselves by affirming the world
and at the same time not attaching to it.
posted By Ben Hassine to Million Paths
In the ocean of being
There is only one.
There was and there will be
Only one.
You are already fulfilled.
How can you be bound or free?
Wherever you go,
Be happy.
- Ashtavakra Gita 15:18
From "The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita," by Thomas Byrom, 1990
"Emancipate yourselves from mental
slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981), Jamaican reggae musician,
'Redemption' (song) on the album "Uprising" (Bob Marley
and the Wailers), 1980.
from Alpha World
When one is pretending, the entire body
revolts.
- Anais Nin
"The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing would
suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Poem: "This Shining
Moment in the Now" by David Budbill, from While We've Still Got Feet © Copper
Canyon Press. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
This Shining Moment in the Now
When I work outdoors all day, every day, as I do now, in the
fall,
getting ready for winter, tearing up the garden, digging
potatoes,
gathering the squash, cutting firewood, making kindling,
repairing
bridges over the brook, clearing trails in the woods, doing the
last of
the fall mowing, pruning apple trees, taking down the screens,
putting up the storm windows, banking the house—all these
things,
as preparation for the coming cold...
when I am every day all day all body and no mind, when I am
physically, wholly and completely, in this world with the birds,
the deer, the sky, the wind, the trees...
when day after day I think of nothing but what the next chore is,
when I go from clearing woods roads, to sharpening a chain saw,
to changing the oil in a mower, to stacking wood, when I am
all body and no mind...
when I am only here and now and nowhere else—then, and only
then, do I see the crippling power of mind, the curse of thought,
and I pause and wonder why I so seldom find
this shining moment in the now.
In the garden I sat with a little glass of red wine.
Little Livia smiled and there was a rainbow.
It’s autumn.
Between the golden rays of sunlight you are quiet.
You befriend the passing clouds and notice how easy it is to say
farewell.
You also notice the unchanging mountain of reality and salute.
Saluting you forget yourself.
Another year passed by.
Another cloud.
Another rainbow.
~ Ben Hassine