It's All Temporary

I recently listened to a teisho (place where the truth is) entitled "Daizui's It will be gone with the other," given by Genjo Marinello Osho. It's available for free on iTunes.

During his talk, Genjo Osho presented the temporal nature of things. Eido Shimano Roshi used to say "things come and go, all by their self." Recently... more than usual, that truth has been repeated. Today my neighbor who lives across the street came home in a wheel-chair from an accident. Earlier in the week I talked to my brother-in-law who found out that he has cancer. As I was talking to Ben about what he has been going through, he mentioned that my (deceased) fathers sister is in a hospital also suffering from cancer too and that she was only three hours from me. As we talked I realized that time has passed very quickly, since I was a child. Time really does move swiftly and many opportunities are genuinely lost, just like it says in the ancient gatha.

That this is all temporary, lets me know that it's important to make everything, and I do mean every thing count, moment after temporary moment. Time with my wife. Time with my daughters. Time with my mother. Time with my brothers. Time with my friends at work. Time with you. Time with the words of Genjo Osho. These are opportunities to be valued deeply, simply because they are like ripples on he water and can never happen exactly in the same way again.

I hope you take the time to check out the Choboji Podcast with Genjo Osho. Just look under the "Podcast" directory on iTunes. Check under Buddhism. You will find his and many other podcasts. If you cannot mentally and emotionally connect with his, perhaps you will be able to do it with another. Remember they are free.

With Love and Respect,

Jaye Morris, Curator
digitalZENDO.com