As we enter the New Year, which I hope is a happy one for everyone, we have completed our first monthly update of the new Lost Coin Study Center. This update contains new videos, audio and conscious art by myself and others in our lineage. We are excited by the potential of The Study Center and hope you will check it out.
I happened upon this poem which was written by the great Zen poet Ryokan and posted on Facebook recently by Joan Halifax, Roshi. She is a teacher in the White Plum Lineage who I respect and admire. Here is the poem. Please consider it a New Year’s gift.
Leave off your mad rush for gold and jewels
I’ve got something far more precious for you:
A bright pearl that shines more brilliantly than the sun and moon
And illuminates each and every eye.
Lose it and you’ll wallow in a sea of pain;
Find it and you’ll safely reach the other shore.
I’d freely present this treasure to anyone
But hardly any one asks for it
photo credit: Harpagornis ~a
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Thanks Doen – is this Enlightenment? Buddha nature?…
Thanks for the question Alex. Yes, it is the Lost Coin, the Buddha nature.
The Lost Coin is the Pearl that we all have and can’t see.
Or you might say that we all have and can see:)
our true nature, me.
Yes it is Liz and it is the part of LIz that is not Liz.
May I have it? To ask for the pearl is such a great way to live.