When servers leave there is more chanting (we should be mindful of where this food comes from and whether our practice deserved it). There is chanting while food is served ( reciting names of Buddha and Bodhisattvas). As server stops before student, they bow to each other, server kneels and dishes food into bowl, they bow again and server goes on to next student. After short chant, students set up their oryokis. Chanting precedes meal (in English at breakfast, Japanese at lunch).
Meals are a sort of meditation, in silence, with as little noise as possible. Complicated oryoki ritual helps to focus attention.
Bowls are placed on an eating board in front of each student. Ritual way for untying and removing bowls. Each student has: an oryoki (set of 3 bowls, spoon and chopsticks, a scraper, setsu ( stick with cloth end), and 3 cloths (for napkin, bowl-wiping, and cloth in which entire oryoki is wrapped- folded and tied in prescribed manner). You sit on cushions in meditation posture. Short chant at beginning and end of period. The minute you don’t want power you’ll have This whole trip I’m talking about is fraught with The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up you can have it all How about that one? As long as you want power You can’t have it. It’s just your vantage point that you’re sort of… stuck in. To the ego, it looks like it’s miracles and accidents. Accidents are just from where you’re looking. That’s a hard one! You mean I don’t have any choice? Can’t I say this is important? You think that’s choice? watch the whole process you would see You Are A Totally Determined Being The very moment you will wake up Is Totally Determined How long you will sleep Is Totally Determined What you will hear of what I say Is Totally Determined There are no accidents in this business at all. It’s only when caterpillarness is done That one starts to be a butterfly and that again is part of this paradox you cannot rip away caterpillarness the whole trip occurs in an unfolding process under which you have no control Well: what am I doing here if I have no control? Can’t I say this is nonsense? Your lecture changed my whole life! No. Caterpillar isn’t walking around Saying: man I’ll soon be a butterfly Because: as long as he’s busy Being a caterpillar He can’t be a butterfly.
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