Mondays: zazen with daishin, 6-6:30pm
Thursdays: zazen with Dogo, 6-6:30pm
Sundays: sangha service, 6-7pm
(Scottish time)
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by Dogo
The old teachings tell of monks going to charnel grounds to meditate and face their fears. Good practice, but maybe needlessly theatrical, as our fears are always close by enough for us to smell them. A person would have to be very deep in denial (or perhaps very young) for a journey in search of their fears to be necessary.
We’re always in the charnel ground, but usually pretending we’re not. If we sat long enough in a literal charnel ground, we’d get used to it and become less aware of it, less aware of reality.
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by Dogo
I like the Thursday online zazen, even when it’s just a couple of us sitting together in different countries, because of the absence of my voice. On Sundays, I give a Dharma talk, and there’s a discussion, but on Thursdays I don’t have to talk, or listen to myself. It reminds me of the essence of sangha: people meditating in shared, contextual, dynamic silence.
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Art by Oh Pandah, text by dubhDear Sangha,
This year, let’s practice together as though it’s a matter of life and death… because it is.
Nine Bows,
Dogo
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by Dogo
Refuge in the Buddha Refuge in the Dharma Refuge in the Sangha Refuge in the empty spaces Spaces around Spaces between Spaces within Spaces
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by Dogo
“Medicine and sickness heal each other. The whole world is medicine.” — Blue Cliff Record, Case 87
In this week’s Dharma talk, I mentioned a parable that’s been on my mind lately. I don’t know its origin — I’ve heard different versions, some attributing it to the Zen or Taoist traditions, but I haven’t been able to find its source, and I don’t think it matters. Here’s the version I discussed:
by Dogo
It is the time of ghosts, the time to acknowledge and celebrate what is always present, never hidden, but usually ignored.
In my dreams, the dead and the living mingle, not separated by time. A cruel man, a man I hated when I was a child, a man dead for many years now, asks me to recommend an iPod. In my dreams, the dead are not dead. In streets and houses, they go about the same business as the living. The Arizona desert is in Glasgow, Scotland.
Conversations are had, work is done, and it is as though old hurts and grudges never happened. In my dreams, the dead are not dead, but their weaknesses and failures are, leaving only people with no one to blame.
The stories we carry are the real and only ghosts. Only stories are born, and only stories die.
#death #MonoNoAware #zen #buddhism #impermanence #DogoBarryGraham
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by Dogo
Essay by me at Buddhistdoor Teahouse
Most Zen monks in the west only wear their robes for ceremonial purposes. But I've found that when I'm on my way to or from the zendo and wearing my robes, strangers in the street will approach me, wanting to talk. It's not usually that they're interested in Buddhism, it's that they're lonely and feel isolated and need someone to talk to, and the robes give them an invitation, or maybe just an excuse, an icebreaker.
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by Dogo
Despite the abandoning of lockdown restrictions, we have no plans to have sangha meetings indoors anytime soon, because the goverment and science have opposite views, and we’re going with science.
But, this Thursday, August 19, you’re welcome to join us for meditation in the park next to the Kelvinside Allotments just off Kirklee Road, near the bridge. (I’ll be there early, so look for a bald guy in Zen monk’s robes.) We’ll start at 6:30pm and do two 25-minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation) broken up by 10 minutes of kinhin (walking meditation). Bring something to sit on. If you have any questions you can email me, or show up 15 minutes early.
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