{"id":825,"date":"2009-12-30T03:45:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/treeleafzen\/2009\/12\/right-between-heaven-and-hell.html"},"modified":"2009-12-30T03:45:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:45:48","slug":"right-between-heaven-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/treeleafzen\/2009\/12\/right-between-heaven-and-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Between Heaven and Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

(And, in case you have not heard … after a lovely year here at Beliefnet.com, our daily “Sit-a-long with Jundo” Zazen netcasts will be moving home on January 1st<\/b> to SHAMBHALA SUNSPACE<\/a><\/b>, the webpage of the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma magazines<\/b>, where we will be a daily featured Buddhist blog … sitting there just as we do here. !)<\/p>\n


( Dogen’s Instructions for the Cook – XXXII)<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

This world and life into which we find we were born is far from perfect, often difficult … yet how fortunate we are that this life is as it is … neither heaven nor hell (though we can help make it a little bit of each) … but a place to care, to practice, to live …<\/p>\n

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