Spirit in Flesh: another Parliament blog

[yezida]

A friend tells a story about people cleaning the kitchen in a monastery. One admonishes the dishwashers, "Remember, these are the Buddha's bowls!" The sensei, walking by at that moment retorts, "They are not the Buddha's bowls! They are the Buddha's flesh!" This speaks volumes about our relationship to what we consider to be "objects" and to the

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[psy]

These topics have been at the core of my work for over a decade

[yezida]

agreed

[yezida]

and this is why I dislike it so when people talk about "the mundane world" or "mundane jobs" etc

It is missing the point of the very theology some of them speak of.

[psy]

Yes