From  Mantra Crystals

7/22/05

Dealing with dad’s severe setback and then finding out that he’s being sent to Windsor Terrace, probably today, where there are no doctors on duty, my mind is scrambling for a foothold, for a way to help and support him.  I’m reading Ramakrishna and Lex Hixon and grasping for sources to point me to the wordless, boundless experience of the unity of all religions. In my sitting this morning I didn’t want to be caught in any sectarian practice that would imply anything but total inclusion. I want to just sit, be the essence of zazen. To calm my busy mind I settled on the mantra “aligned, relaxed, resilient”.  This also seems to offer something for dad. And I’m reminded that from here Will Johnson went to “gazing at the beloved: the radical practice of the divine”.