What is the shape of afternoon, in the garden, in spring?
Birdsong is the constant outline, coming from nowhere and everywhere, the sound of within.
The swallow’s rhythmic coo is the call of the inside of the world — the inside that has no outside.
Mind is shapely.
The master asks, « How do you stop a distant temple bell? »
Le Web carnet de Amy Hollowell Sensei, fondatrice de la Wild Flower Zen Sangha et successeur de Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi dans le lignage Zen Soto de Taizan Maezumi Roshi, fondateur du Centre Zen de Los Angeles.
The Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.
who is asking?
how do you stop the suffering in the world? how do ou open the door for the old lady in china?
Darn distant temple bells!
They just won’t take orders.
4 o’clock.
And the beat goes on…
Dling Dlong Dling Dlong Dling Dlong Dling Dlong
clearer: by completely awareness of its jingle.
Background-noises are indeed like ‘symbols of life breaking through’ storylevel.
We often just hear them – aware – not doing – with the lightness of the middle way.
The master asks, "How do you stop a distant temple bell?"
By allowing it to jingle?