Ceremony
With palms together
Good Morning Everyone,
Ceremony is an engaging thing. We Americans appear to both love as well as hatred it. We have been suspect of rules, forms, as well as expectations, nonetheless on the alternative hand, you seem to take particular wish in witnessing others in ceremony. Opening ceremonies, shutting ceremonies: you love to fool around dress-up if only to watch others go by the motions. When asked to participate, however, you seem hesitant, awkward, or infrequently just plain hostile.
Those who come to Zen have been mostly quite surprised by the ceremonial forms as well as rituals. I dont know, though it seems people think you have been the rag-tag, iconoclastic bunch of misfits as well as so, when they come into the Temple as well as have been asked to mislay their shoes, place their hands in special positions, as well as even bow, well, my goodness, they mostly just dont know what to say. Do you really need ceremony? We suddenly ask. I dont feel comfortable, an additional might argue.
Why do you have so most forms? Why ceremonies during all? The short answer is simple as well as direct: forms as well as ceremonies keep us intact. Without them you have been similar to chess pieces though the board or the box. We might coarse hair during this, though it is so. Maps beam us, boundaries assist us, cup as well as tea have been symbiotic. Even if you reject all forms (which is impossible to do as well as still sojourn human), in the formlessness you seek form. People want as well as need to know what the subsequent step is.
If you had no forms, no ceremonies, no rituals, people would emanate them, demand them, as well as still protest about them in the process. Forms essentially giveaway us. In them you have been no longer wondering what to do next, though rather, have the place to put the minds eye. Life demands this. Awakened hold up is this.
Interestingly, Maezumi-roshi suggested in the talk he d! id that rite has the recovering function. He says, Ceremony equates to to do things orderly. To take caring of things in the full of health way. It is the recovering routine itself. With form, order, as well as proper attention, you strengthen ourselves as well as show apply oneself for both ourselves as well as Zen.
One last point, it is important to note that display apply oneself for something or someone is the mechanism for caring. No respect, no care, as well as the problem with the miss of caring is that things uncared for fall apart.
Be well
Quote from Maezumi-roshis Teachings of the Great Mountain.Zen wisdom for every day living.
Good Morning Everyone,
Ceremony is an engaging thing. We Americans appear to both love as well as hatred it. We have been suspect of rules, forms, as well as expectations, nonetheless on the alternative hand, you seem to take particular wish in witnessing others in ceremony. Opening ceremonies, shutting ceremonies: you love to fool around dress-up if only to watch others go by the motions. When asked to participate, however, you seem hesitant, awkward, or infrequently just plain hostile.
Those who come to Zen have been mostly quite surprised by the ceremonial forms as well as rituals. I dont know, though it seems people think you have been the rag-tag, iconoclastic bunch of misfits as well as so, when they come into the Temple as well as have been asked to mislay their shoes, place their hands in special positions, as well as even bow, well, my goodness, they mostly just dont know what to say. Do you really need ceremony? We suddenly ask. I dont feel comfortable, an additional might argue.
Why do you have so most forms? Why ceremonies during all? The short answer is simple as well as direct: forms as well as ceremonies keep us intact. Without them you have been similar to chess pieces though the board or the box. We might coarse hair during this, though it is so. Maps beam us, boundaries assist us, cup as well as tea have been symbiotic. Even if you reject all forms (which is impossible to do as well as still sojourn human), in the formlessness you seek form. People want as well as need to know what the subsequent step is.
If you had no forms, no ceremonies, no rituals, people would emanate them, demand them, as well as still protest about them in the process. Forms essentially giveaway us. In them you have been no longer wondering what to do next, though rather, have the place to put the minds eye. Life demands this. Awakened hold up is this.
Interestingly, Maezumi-roshi suggested in the talk he d! id that rite has the recovering function. He says, Ceremony equates to to do things orderly. To take caring of things in the full of health way. It is the recovering routine itself. With form, order, as well as proper attention, you strengthen ourselves as well as show apply oneself for both ourselves as well as Zen.
One last point, it is important to note that display apply oneself for something or someone is the mechanism for caring. No respect, no care, as well as the problem with the miss of caring is that things uncared for fall apart.
Be well
Quote from Maezumi-roshis Teachings of the Great Mountain.Zen wisdom for every day living.
