My friend,
Don’t spend too much time in dojos.
Don’t be captivated by the terminology and the monks’ robes.
For then you would miss the eternal freshness of the present moment.
The more you know, the further you stray from it.
Before being a sitting practice, the simple sitting practice is simple.
This simplicity is the opening of doors and the force of the free flow of currents leading you beyond.
Too much knowledge, too much discourse, too much fixation on points of doctrine, too much fascination with form and cultural context are all factors that stagnate these currents of liberation.
They can only express themselves in perfect freedom.
And the more experience and knowledge you acquire,
the more weight your words carry in the community,
the further you will have actually drifted from the practice.
My friend, I have never spent any time in a dojo, and have turned my back on the nearest equivalents I have encountered.
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My friend, a dojo is merely the place where you practice.
My.dojo is my cushion.
My car, bed, street, classroom…
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My friend, if you practice everywhere, then your dojo is both everywhere and nowhere.
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Dear friend, how could i ever invite you of one of those terms were ever true?
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My friend, the invitation would be to share the wind and the sky, and the vastness of being.
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How could we ever have tea in such conditions ?
What kind of invitation would that be ?
You’re just trying to spiritually justify your intention to to come by. You won’t trick me with your old non-dualist rhetoric here, Simon.
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Really?
It strikes me that the implicit meaning of your description of your dojo is that you carry it within you. Everywhere.
Therefore, all I can ever do is carry the same within me.
This has nothing to do with a mug of tea – unless you wish to use that as a metaphor for « paradise, » I suppose. Physical location becomes irrelevant to practice. Therefore, we are neither constrained nor inhibited in boiling the kettle.
Either way, we can listen to the wind.
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I was joking around, Simon.
We still need a location to boil a kettle.
The incarnation deal.
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I did not take your comment overly seriously. But tea is a subject that is always serious – which is why I’ve just returned home with 2 boxes of Earl Grey…
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A very sound incarnated behaviour.
We should have tea together some day?
I’ll show you my 3 square meter dojo.
If you can manage to cross the sea and drive for 2 hours.
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Possibly – though, at the moment, I do not have a passport that would get me over the channel…
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Let’s opt for the all-is-one solution then.
Fewer legal obligations.
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