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Depth in Practice spends a second week discussing Case 20: Dizang asked Fayan, "Where are you going?" // Fayan said, "Around on pilgrimage." // Dizang said, "What is the purpose of pilgrimage?" // Fayan said, "I don't know." //Dizang said, "Not knowing is most intimate.”

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00:00:27 - Readings and Teachings from 'Not Always So' by Shunryu Suzuki
00:11:02 - Joel Invites participants to Pracitce with the Breath whilst Sitting Zazen
00:11:44 - Participants sit for 5 Minutes
00:12:06 - Stephanie Says a few words about her Practice
00:23:13 - Poem - Dirge in Woods by George Meredith (See Below)
00:24:20 - Poem - A Parting Guest (See Below)
00:25:14 - Poem - Nature - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (see Below)
00:26:04 - Stephanie Opens the Floor up for Questions

00:23:13 - Dirge in Woods
BY GEORGE MEREDITH

A wind sways the pines,
And below
Not a breath of wild air;
Still as the mosses that glow
On the flooring and over the lines
Of the roots here and there.
The pine-tree drops its dead;
They are quiet, as under the sea.
Overhead, overhead
Rushes life in a race,
As the clouds the clouds chase;
And we go,
And we drop like the fruits of the tree,
Even we,
Even so.

00:24:20 - A Parting Guest

What delightful hosts are they --
Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour,
yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude,
I stay
Yet to press their hands and say,
"Thanks. -- So fine a time! Good night."

By James Whitcomb Riley

00:25:14 - Nature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 –1882
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comforted
By promises of others in their stead,
Which, though more splendid,
may not please him more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently,
that we goScarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen Paperback –Jun. 2003
by Shunryu Suzuki (Author)

2024-04-16 I Inquiry I Direct Pointing Out Instructions I Suzanne Kilkus by Appamada

00:02:00 - A short reading from ‘Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki
00:03:50 - Reading from: Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart by Zenkei Blanche Hartman
00:05:33 - The Niagara River By Kay Ryan (see below)
00:08:50 - The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Mary Oliver
00:15:47 - Peonies by Mary Oliver
00:21:37 - Ann Invites Questions



The Niagara River
By Kay Ryan
1945 –
As thoughthe river werea floor, we positionour table and chairsupon it, eat, andhave conversation.As it moves along,we notice—ascalmly as thoughdining room paintingswere being replaced—the changing scenesalong the shore. Wedo know, we doknow this is theNiagara River, butit is hard to rememberwhat that means.

The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac
by Mary Oliver

2024- 04-09 I Inquiry I The Hum of the Refrigerator I Josh Gifford by Appamada

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