The Annual Appeal to support our temple begins December 8th. Please go to OlympiaZenCenter.org and scroll down for our Doante Now Button to make a secure donation - through a Non-Profit Organization! - online. Although we are a lay community, we hold out our Begging Bowl as the Buddha taught and as Ryokan, our model, taught. Ryokan wrote: Long ago the Prince of Pure Eating preached how to beg, And the Beggar of Beggars truly acted out his teaching. Since then it is two thousand, seven hundred years and more. Yet am I no less a faithful pupil of the First Teacher. Therefore I beg, a bowl in my hands, a gown on my back. Have you not read or heard of that noble one of high repute, who solemnly decreed: Equal in eating, equal under the divine law we must be. Translation by Nobuyuki Yuasa in Zen Poems of Ryokan Therefore, we follow the spirit of Shakyamuni Buddha and our Great Saint Ryokan relying fully upon Dharma which is nothing other than the demonstration of Generosity in the hearts of all our benefactors. Please read our Activities in 2013 when they become available at the end of the year. This will help to understand the many ways in which the community and teacher have expressed the Dharma through Zazen, ceremony, work, and effort in the community. Your support has benefitted the wider community and provided a refuge for practice. May your life go well; blessings follow a generous heart. Thank you for giving.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 04:23:53 +0000
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