Hōtō, Summer 1978 — shorter pieces

July 1978 · Haiku Zendo, Los Altos

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This entry is not a single continuous talk. It gathers the shorter pieces printed across one issue of the newsletter, which appear here as they were found rather than stitched into a whole.

On Practice — invisible like roots

The way we are doing is, from beginning, it is very cool way. Not exciting at all, very ordinary. Every day basis of life is basic concern, so it looks like nothing is happening, but invisible...like root of trees or grasses.

On Time — death has no fear

Space and Time is kind of useless subject to get into, because it is not human subject. Human can measure things with time or sense of space, but it doesn't belong to man. Like death doesn't belong to life, although death exists in life. So fear of death belongs to life, because death doesn't have any fear.