Good evening!
Spring is the season when everything springs up – irises, trees, plants – all growing upright in balance, functioning free and full.
Dr. Suzuki of the Suzuki Method tested himself and taught others the best forms to use to play violin. He could tell what kind of forms players used just by listening to their tapes.
Dogen said, “Igi-soku Buppo” (?????: Dignified forms are themselves the awakened norms.).
The right form reveals the right norm, truth, in free function. Truth manifests itself in the right form in full function.
When we sit, we must keep an upright posture so that we can function free and full like trees working with wind, water, light, and life.
So, when we sit, we sit upright, reaching and revealing truth and peace, harmony and holiness.
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