ISmile 340 – Like Your Own Eyes

In this mashup of two talks, Michael uses the phrase from Dogen Zenji’s, Instruction to the Cook , where he suggests that each grain of rice be handled carefully, “as if it were your own eyes.” Treating our lives this way helps us awaken to the truth that any Tathagatha, or person who actually sees reality, can embody. This embodiment is a gift. Something referred to hal in Arabic, or satori, in Zen is this very gift. But we must earn it. We do this by being open and available vessels that carry this teaching with greater potency the more we sit still. This is how we care for our practice… as if it were our own eyes.

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ISmile 340 – Like Your Own Eyes is an episode from Infinite Smile by Infinite Smile.

This episode is 25:43 long.

This episode was published on May 18, 2013.

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