Buddha is not somewhere else

Zenkei Blanche Hartman at San Francisco Zen Center, City Center, December 30, 2006 • Download from San Francisco Zen Center's Audio Dharma page (donate)

• a haiku from Lou Hartman, “that actor serving tea in the zendo thinks he’s me.” • a roshi’s story of the squabbling squashes • the precepts like a sign that says “Danger Thin Ice” • “What we notice is, if we practice, if we really concern ourselves with cultivating the happiness of others, we ourselves become happy.” • “So be completely yourself – without some idea of yourself. It’s the idea of self that gets us trapped. But just be who you are, then you can be Buddha. ‘Cause that’s who you are.”