This week’s topic for reflection is transition. There are many ways that we transition. We transition from young to old, happy to sad and sad to happy, rested to tired, and healthy to sick are a few examples. Being alive we are continually transitioning from one thing or many things into other things. Is there anything you wish or hope will never change? Does change sometimes hurt? I look at change as a singular event and transition as a continuous process. Isn’t everything and everyone in this continuous process of transition?
Slow your awareness down to this moment. Is it possible to reach a moment and hold it so it won’t move or change? This present moment. It appears to me this static moment doesn’t exist. It’s unreachable and cannot be held. Is this moment and you, in anyway not transitioning? To be alive is to be transitioning. Is there any escape from this or any exception? Is there anything about you that is not in transition? Is there anything that is permanent? If the answer is there is nothing permanent, how comfortable are you with that?
In the card game of life we are all dealt a hand. Along the way we arrange the cards to tell a story. We’re arranging our own cards along with others. Everything is transitioning but is it going somewhere or getting somewhere? At the end of your life when your cards are returned, how will you be about this life?
Please join us on Zoom for morning zazen from 7:00 to 7:30 Tuesday and Thursday, in person zazen Saturday morning at the McNail-Riley house from 8:30 to 11:00 and Sunday morning Zoom zazen and discussion from 8:00 to 9:00 PST. Here’s the Zoom link:
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Thank you,
Futai
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