i devote this DL to Most Noble Online Students Cerame and Feather and NWSM.
Why should it be so much more difficult to weed out baby Ponderosa trees from my garden,
than
Clover?
it shouldn’t be.
yet, to this feeble mountain yogi, it is.
just another reason why i am not Enlightened.
Attachment, even when it comes from Love
is still Attachment
and must be overcome
before True Seeing through Maya
occurs.
“Cliffside flowers
sometimes fall
on a robe that’s sitting in zazen.”
– Ching An
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photo 1) this morning after puja; with a heavy heart, i weed out one of the hundreds of baby Ponderosa seedlings currently blanketing the grounds of Two Tree Manor. note my use of Jnana Mudra during this violent action upon a living Being so that at least i am Conscious of the Dharma and karmic consequences while extinguishing the incarnation of this Being. coach ilg photo.
photo 2) i sit zazen in a volcano caldera in southern Ute-Tah. ananda photo.
Ching An poem contributed by stalwart Flagstaff HP Yogini Leslie who came to class last night, elbow injured so she did all her chaturanga and down dog postures on her forearms! i bow to “no excuse” fiftysomething Leslie. What if Turtle Island had more Leslie’s? InnerAttainment would be our fun and our focus, instead of the current era addiction to bullshit Entertainment. photo of Two Warrioresses; HP Yogini and SR Leslie with Ananda after a private Practice session at Two Tree Manor.
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