Lost Coin Meeting Notes 9/6/10- San Francisco

D. talked about the Bagavita- Krishna(a mythical, metaphoric being) going off to war with a King.   The king has doubts about what he is doing since he considers himself part of a spiritual community and he is going off to war on his relatives.  Krishna tells him to keep on: to be wholehearted- to be one with what he is doing and who he is.

Everything we do is samsara- delusion- each of us structured by our character, our  “stories”, our biases.  Our samsara is a little bit different than the samsara of our neighbor.  Not better, not worse.
To be enlightened is to see through our samsara- the last thought would be I and everyone else is separate- To let go  and to be wherever we are- right at home wherever we are, even if it is Alpha Centauri—it is Wonderland- wherever we are.

Then we sit and practice- the practice is after we see through samsara then embrace it.  We don’t run away from our delusion, we embrace it.  We choose to be human, even though at first, we didn’t choose to be here, to be human, now we choose life, human life and thus cut through samsara.

Maezumi Roshi always would say: everyone is interested in enlightenment, but I don’t think so- I choose samsara/delusion.

Way to liberation: Be One with your life- Be one with the Buddha.  To choose one’s life: then delusion is enlightenment, then enlightenment is everywhere.

Practice fills the gap between the idea and who/what you are…..

Appreciate your life- savor your life, enjoy the ride because that ride is you.  

Let go or not.

Fork over the extra quarter for the tubes with the bottoms if you are riding down the Esopus River which has lots of rocks and boulders**

Pema Chodron: We are sky, everything else is weather.  Becoming one with the weather.

Preferences are OK- they are the weather- the waves in the ocean- just acknowledge the existence of cause and effect: preferring one thing causes some effect, preferring another causes yet another effect.

Exercise to be continued: We shared some of them today:

See how we create a situation that we don’t like and then see how to cause/create an effect/situation that we want—become conscious of the process.
