Rohatsu | Part II

As Rohatsu Sesshin begins for my dear friends from Dai Ban Zan, Cho Bo Ji, in Seattle Washington - my Mind has settled on something that Nyogen Senzaki once wrote.

"Monks have no monopoly on Zen. Zen belongs to the world. Laymen and laywomen adherents should study Zen-even children in kindergarten should be trained in the Zen way. The shrubs and grasses around this humble house also study Zen. They show the color of Zen through their own natural green.... Zen monks are like street cleaners. They do their work so that others can go their different ways.... True monks who guard the lamp of Dharma are becoming fewer and fewer."

Gassho,

Jaye Morris, Curator
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