(BENDOWA XXIV)
I am jumping back a sentence in the text due to my lack of mindfulness …
Also, today’s sitting and talk is especially dedicated to the fellow who wrote the other day to say that his son had passed away recently …
In other words …
You are perfectly you and not you, yet all things … … and thus one’s self is perfectly realized and actuated, True Self manifested …whereby, whether one is moving or standing perfectly still, all the world is going as it goes in a very beautiful way … as if buddha carrying out buddha’s work and effects.
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But does that mean the world is always just as our little self might wish it?
Does that mean that our responsibility for how we live ends there?
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Moreover, although both mind and object [subject and object] appear and disappear within stillness, because this takes place in the realm of self-receiving and self-employing [jijiyu] without moving a speck of dust or destroying a single form, extensive buddha work and profound subtle buddha influence are carried out. .
From: Talk on the Wholehearted Practice of the Way -Kosho Uchiyama (with Shohaku Okumura, Taigen Daniel Leighton)
(remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells;
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