Good Morning Everyone,
For one who is one with the storm, there is no storm. Separating ourselves from the storm, resisting it, makes the storm strong. If we practice relaxing into the storm, peace. We oppose it, become an oak tree, unbending, rigid, we will be uprooted. Not resisting the storm we are like a palm tree in a hurricane, bending and yielding to the wind, we become the wind itself: storm and we are one, no problem.
Do storms cause damage? Of course. Should we not prepare for them? Of course. But our attitude and willingness to be present determines both the extent of the damage and most importantly, our experience of the storm itself.
Zen teaches us to be free and easy in the marketplace. Open and accepting of difference, we become adaptive, we struggle less, we are interested in the world around us for itself as opposed to its use-value.
There is an old Daoist concept of going to the low places. By this is meant relaxing into the world around us, like water does, forming still pools at the lowest places of any environment, not resisting gravity, but going with it. We yield to the rocks, wash around the trees and leaves, and flow to create pools in shady coves.
When we live life like this we live in serene reflection meditation.
Be soft, be yielding, be peace, be well..
Rev. Dr. So Daiho Hilbert-roshi
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