"The true spirit of the grain"

Edward Espe Brown at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, January 21, 2007 • Download from SBMG's MP3 Jewels page (donate)

a Taoist quote: begin right and you will be easy • make yourself at home in your body • then welcome your experience home to your heart • Suzuki-roshi and the true spirit of the grain • April Fool’s at Tassajara • can the cook please all of you? • thick oatmeal and where did you go wrong in life? • this may not be the dessert you ordered, but . . . • learning to taste the truth of the moment • you can try to make every moment to your liking • how well does it work? • young Suzuki, the pickled radishes, and no thought • burying in the garden, meditation digging it back up • gaining stability, then the buried distasteful thing arises • just chew and swallow • and be nourished • wintering through it