The theme for this month's Zazenkai was Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi - "Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen". The day's program included opening& closing ceremonies, zazen, kinhin(walking meditation), readings from the Fukanzazengi and a Dharma Talk on the topic.
You have
gained the pivotal opportunity of human form. Do not pass your days and nights
in vain. You are taking care of the essential activity of the buddha-way. Who
would take wasteful delight in the spark from a flintstone? Besides, form and
substance are like the dew on the grass, the fortunes of life like a dart of
lightning --emptied in an instant, vanished in a flash.
Please,
honored followers of Zen, long accustomed to groping for the elephant, do not
doubt the true dragon. Devote your energies to the way of direct pointing at
the real. Revere the one who has gone beyond learning and is free from effort.
Accord with the enlightenment of all the buddhas; succeed to the samadhi of all
the ancestors. Continue to live in such a way, and you will be such a person.
The treasure store will open of itself, and you may enjoy it freely.
excerpt from Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi - "Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen"
