One Particle of Dust

Genjo Osho offers teisho "One particle of Dust." As ever, his expression is breathtaking and lively as he delves into Tozan's Five Ranks. He delves deeply into the "Seamlessness" of all being. He clearly encourages and illuminates why our Zen Buddhist practice is "life long," and not merely "over" at some arbitrary point.

One thing that I must say that really stuck to me is that there are people in this world that are suffering. One source of this suffering is nested within discriminating thoughts and actions. In some moments it's clearly obvious, undeniable and unambiguous. In other instances the suffering is difficult to discern or notice, because there is a kind of mask which we can put over ourselves. In the vibrancy of Genjo Osho's words I heard the clear and distinct reminder that our true, true, true, true, true purpose is to relieve suffering not only for ourselves, but so-called "others" who we are "artificially" separated from.

Genjo Osho encourages us to recover the "womb-like reality of seamless reality." How is this done? Zen practice. By-the-way, I'd like to remind you that my favorite translation for the word Zen is "unification." Genjo Osho says, "Great enlightenment is recovering what you already have." That in and of itself is a powerful notion, that if we allowed it - prehaps change and improve how we live our life.

As ever, you can listen to "One Particle of Dust" on Switchpod or look for Choboji under the podcasting section in iTunes. The download is FREE. The time that you will spend listening to this expression of "The Buddha, dharma and Sangha" will be well worth it. "Take a load off," and enjoy it.

Unify Your Heart,

Jaye Morris, Curator
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