fragments from a dharma talk

[kirkcudbright]

Between Gemini, Vonnie, moving my mother-in-law to Assisted Living, and other recent developments, I've been circling back to the Five Remembrances. (My tweak of Thich Nhat Hanh's translation

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[lyonesse]

Canis latrans: Laughing dog.

coyote eyes plucked out. make new ones out of pine pitch. can they see? maybe!!

someone put food out for coyote! tasty. eat. poisoned. puke and die. oh well. was tasty!

coyote try to dance. everybody laugh. coyote laugh loudest of all.

coyote look at the moon. The moon is my mistress, I shall not want...

...yeah, i guess your religion makes about as much sense as mine XD

[gosling]

Thinking very very hard about this. Really timely thing for me to read today. Thank you for posting this.

[c1]

Not sure I follow Buddhism per se (more a mix of that, Shinto, and Taoism, plus a few others tossed in) but I usually get a reason to think about these concepts weekly. So yes, numbers 1-4 are resonant.

[lillibet]

Timely reminders, indeed. Thank you.