Good evening!
We have now very high temperatures and humidity, but after sweating and taking a shower, I feel very good.
Zen life is not only sitting, but samu. We do samu whole-heartedly – wholly sweating, wholly breathing.
I cut down a tree, feeling as if I were like cutting my arm off at the elbow as the second patriarch cut his arm to show his determination for the awakened way.
Even though it felt like losing my own elbow, the tree was cut to give more sunlight to our vegetable garden and our future life way.
That tree was planted not in the whole perspective and wholesome priority as needed today.
So, every day let us put ourselves into sitting or samu, wholly sitting, and wholly breathing, with our whole hearts and minds.
5/11/11