From Mantra Crystals and Unpacking my attachment to the myth of dharma transmission

This is a phrase I used as a Mantra Crystal.

1/3/05

This came out of Dialog with Roshi last week. It came up in my sitting this morning and I sat with it.

1/19/05

Following the trail from Dialog with Works: Zen Priest, to Dialog with People: Nakao 8/30/04, to Dialogue with People: Maezumi 12/29/04 brings me to this as my koan. I’ll try to sit with it again some more. 

8/22/08

We’re in the ceremony at Mendocino (procession about to start) to help me reframe this. On the road of life and death this is the initiatory moment. Seven years after leaving ZCLA I am completing the long initiatory process. See 8/22/2008 Daily Log – Mendocino