Do not feed attachment for the kesa.
In the common sense of the term, I do not wear one, nor do I have one available that I could wear if I wanted to.
Yet, I never sit without a kesa.
I summon it, it summons itself, on every sitting,
In consciousness or through the sutra dedicated to it
Even if it were absent from my practice, I would still wear the kesa,
Since it is the spirit, the heart of the sitting itself,
The posture and the kesa are inseparable.
If I sit, the kesa always surrounds my left shoulder.
And in the same way that sitting transcends the simple framework of sitting,
zazen is life itself surpassing circumstantial sitting,
The kesa is carried outside of the posture and outside the dojo,
even if there is no dojo, no posture, no kesa.
©FJ Dec. 2024
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In other words, your garment, in meditation, is your own awareness, I think.
Just looked at some images of kesa. A few thousand years ago, it would have made a passable toga.
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I don’t know what a toga is…some kind of Greek garment, maybe…oh I get it…in French, « une toge »…of course.
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