Householder Practice – Abiding Within

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Dosho Port began practicing Zen in 1977 and now co-teachers with his wife, Tetsugan Zummach, with the Vine of Obstacles Zen. Dosho received dharma transmission from Dainin Katagiri Roshi and inka shomei from James Myoun Ford Roshi in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. • Link: https://www.vineobstacleszen.com/ • He is the author of Keep Me In Your Heart Awhile: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri, The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans, and Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions. • About Rocks and Clouds Zendo • Rocks and Clouds Zendo is a Zen Buddhist community located in Sebastopol, California. Our community is dedicated to Zen practice and training. The community (sangha) meets for meditation, tea and a Dharma talk by our teacher, Daniel Terragno Roshi, weekly on Wednesdays. • On many Fridays, Terragno Roshi offers dokusan, an opportunity to meet privately for discussion of meditation practice. Terragno Roshi works with and guides students in their practice, which may include study of Zen koans as a way of waking up to one’s true nature and developing the awareness, compassion, insight, and presence to live courageously and responsibly. • Zen Community Online • Links: https://rocksandcloudszendo.org/about/ • Facebook: / rocks-and-clouds-zendo-122045632369 • Sister Sangha's • Yellow Springs Dharma Center and Zen on High in Columbus, Ohio: http://www.ysdharma.org • Grupo Zen Viento del Sur: http://www.zen-vientodelsur.com.ar/ou... • Zen Montañas y Mar: https://www.zenmontanasymar.org • Poems Discussed • Commitment • Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. • • Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation)there is one elementary truth, • the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: • that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. • All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have • occurred. • • A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. • • I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: • “Whatever you can do, or dream you can… begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” • • W.N. Murray (1951) • The Scottish Himalayan Expedition • Dongshan’s Verse • Do not seek from another, • Or you will be estranged from self. • I now go on alone, • Finding I meet It everywhere. • It now is me, • I now am not It. • One should understand in this way • To merge with suchness as is. • • • • Dongshan Liangjie (807-869)

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