tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123326368423499292.post653702789639635742..comments2023-10-08T08:48:18.513-04:00Comments on The Dalai Grandma: Nothing extraJeanne Desyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07800258273705288582noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123326368423499292.post-51069166305086177872012-05-23T15:45:09.835-04:002012-05-23T15:45:09.835-04:00Hair, a problem any way you look at it. Being huma...Hair, a problem any way you look at it. Being human, rather, animal, in a body. This led me to reread "The Heavy Bear That Goes With Me." Schwartz was an alcoholic+, I gather, and I find the poem very sadly hateful of our embodied self. I'm trying to think of an antidote poem. So much poetry exalting nature, so little appreciating ourselves and these bodies, which are all we have to work with. So here - http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2005/09/eyes-czeslaw-milosz.htmlJeanne Desyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800258273705288582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123326368423499292.post-6053940904578997412012-05-23T07:04:49.460-04:002012-05-23T07:04:49.460-04:00Dear Dalai Grandma,
We ask this question a lot i...Dear Dalai Grandma, <br /><br />We ask this question a lot in Cloud Hall. This necessary business balks at action; I need hair, I don't need hair. If I cut the hair, it seems an unnecessary gesture. If I let it grow, seems like it needs to be cut. <br /><br />I ask Dogen's question: What is it that thus comes? Why do I think this monastic life is different then the life we left behind? I'm seeing it's not if I don't ask the question, moment to moment. Of course, not really choosing what is necessary seems to be working, too. We're called from the farm to the dining room. Room 6 is only 15 ft wide, about 10ft deep. But then, the snack area has unlimited peanut butter. And sometimes, only 15 minutes after dinner has started, the food runs out.<br /><br />Cute cat!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123326368423499292.post-84507867565642668962012-05-22T19:43:59.592-04:002012-05-22T19:43:59.592-04:00Thank you for writing.Thank you for writing.Jeanne Desyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800258273705288582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7123326368423499292.post-77481933628999071482012-05-22T19:37:16.368-04:002012-05-22T19:37:16.368-04:00What a wonderful complication indeed!
I've en...What a wonderful complication indeed!<br /><br />I've enjoyed reading your posts for some time -- many thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com