It is clear to see
and sometimes painful to watch the throes of agony he endures in order to know. He says he will quit soon because exhaustion and this endless torment might be getting the best of him. On some afternoons still he knocks on the door of someone who appears to know. This one who appears to know has burned all of her books taken her certificates down and protests loudly to have only the knowledge of nothing at all. She shares this lack of knowledge along with cups of peppermint-nettles-nothing tea. Sometimes the visitor cries hard because of his belly full of dredged-up grief sometimes because of his unresolved joy occasionally he laughs out loud at his own folly and is precious and earnest if nothing else. Mostly, he comes for the tea. This is known by the one who knows nothing based upon often finding the empty cup placed mindfully on the table by the door.
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analisa domenica
invites you to find out what you are. The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."
The patriarch responded, "I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning." Said the nun, "You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you able then to understand the meaning?" "Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?" Archives
October 2014
CategoriesAnalisa Domenica is a humanist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or non-faith tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.
'Li' lives and works in Mill Spring, NC, a stone or two's throw from Asheville, NC and Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. She also works globally via phone. You may reach her by phone at 828.429.0096 or write to her by clicking here. |