The gift of nothing

Furyu Nancy Schroeder at San Francisco Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm, December 3, 2006 • Download from San Francisco Zen Center’s Audio Dharma page (donate)

• the gift of nothing • trying to remember a sesshin • “our minds are exactly the same as the Buddha’s” • “the difference between the Buddha and me has to do with how I feel about the way things are . . . more important and more personal than they really are” • “I met a man who wasn’t there” • to think not thinking • our mind and language serve to separate the universe into twos, or so we imagine • the universe refuses to be separated • our minds are so busy they imagine everything they look at is busy too • the view from riding on a horse • “there is one that is not busy” • the gift for the sitters in sesshin • come back to the imperfect world for our imperfect love •