This week's questions

2/1/2021

What's the most important thing you can offer right now related to your priority issues or activities?
What's the biggest obstacle to your offering in the way you'd most like to?
Dogen says: Whether our gifts are Dharma or material objects, each gift is truly endowed with the virtue of offering or dana. Even if this gift is not our personal possession, our practice of offering is not hindered. What might this mean in your own practice of beneficial action?

And, a suggestion: Visit the page of Sotoshu essays on the Sustainable Development Goals and consider one small step you could take toward engagement with your priority issue or activity.

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Brian Flaherty

2/2/2021 02:49:29 pm

2/2/2021 10:35:01 am

== A poem by David Whyte called "Start Close In" ==

Start close in,
don’t take the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

Start with
the ground
you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own
way to begin
the conversation.

Start with your own
question,
give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them
smother something
simple.

To find
another’s voice,
follow
your own voice,
wait until
that voice
becomes an
intimate private ear
that can
really listen
to another.

Start right now
take a small step
you can call your own
don’t follow
someone else’s
heroics, be humble
and focused,
start close in,
don’t mistake
that other
for your own.

Start close in,
don’t take
the second step
or the third,
start with the first
thing
close in,
the step
you don’t want to take.

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