{"id":716,"date":"2009-08-10T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T10:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/08\/typhoon-comin.html"},"modified":"2009-08-10T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T10:26:21","slug":"typhoon-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/08\/typhoon-comin.html","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Comin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a typhoon heading toward where we are in Eastern Japan tonight, and it is interfering with the internet &#8230; so no video today &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, please sit with me in the coming storm. Hopefully, in this practice, we learn to find the stillness even in the howling wind &#8230; the eye of the storm. Typhoons are just symbolic of the storms of life that come to all of us from time to time. <\/p>\n<p>We meditating folks do better than most, I think, in keeping balance no<br \/>\nmatter what life tosses at us. Sure, we may get knocked over when life tosses<br \/>\na massive <span class=\"posthilit\">hurricane<\/span> in our path. I do not know a human being who can stay on her feet in any wind, any earthquake, no matter how powerful. But this practice sure helps. It helps us keep our balance and, if knocked over by a blow, it helps us get back up and recover our balance. <\/p>\n<p>I recall when we were living in Florida and a hurricane was<br \/>\nheading our way a couple of years ago. I was worried enough that I<br \/>\nstocked up on <span class=\"posthilit\">water<\/span>, put shutters on<br \/>\nthe windows, moved my family into a shelter. Even though our Zen practice allows us to accept life, we need not sit passively. When<br \/>\nthe hurricane actually hit, when the roof was shaking and windows<br \/>\nbreaking &#8230; I stretched out my <span class=\"posthilit\">arms<\/span><br \/>\nand said &#8220;carry us where you will&#8221;. In other words, I did what I could<br \/>\n&#8230; and when there was no more I could do, I just merged into the <span class=\"posthilit\">storm<\/span> and let it do what it would do. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">(After that, we had a surprise retreat when the storm left our town without electric power &#8230; including grocery<br \/>\nstores, refrigerators, tv, computers, telephones and cars &#8230; for<br \/>\nnearly a month. Lovely! We think we need these things for happiness &#8230;<br \/>\nwhen they are taken away we resist &#8230; then find we did not need any of<br \/>\nthat for life and happiness at all!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think the ways we Zen folks react to crisis may seem a little strange &#8230; even welcoming the storm in some ways &#8230; but it is a healthy way to be.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this typhoon is not as powerful as that hurricane was, and all will likely blow over tomorrow.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Even though there is no camera tonight, please sit with me in in the storm.   <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a typhoon heading toward where we are in Eastern Japan tonight, and it is interfering with the internet &#8230; so no video today &#8230; However, please sit with me in the coming storm. 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