WW: Beaver pond

Samsara

"Everything ends, and it's always sad.
But everything begins again too, and
that's always happy.

"Be happy. I'll look after everything
else."

--The Doctor

(Photo courtesy of Mark Freeman and Wikimedia Commons.)

WW: Netful of razor clams

St. Francis Meditation

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing you have received - only what you have given.”

Saint Francis of Assisi

(Photo of meditating St. Francis courtesy of Eugenio Hansen, OFS, and Wikimedia Commons.)

WW: Christmas self portrait

Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.

The Berkeley Koan

One morning in the late 60s, a passing policeman asked the sangha of the newly-founded Berkeley Zen Center why they were all sitting on the front lawn.

"We're meditating," said teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman.

"Won't drugs get you there faster?" the cop asked.

Sojun replied: "We're not going anywhere."

--Story shared by Zenshin Greg Fain on the SFZC Podcast.


(Photo of Hotei courtesy of Andrea Schaffer and Wikimedia Commons.)

WW: Sun in the forest