Merle,
Now you're having some doubts that diet and its sufficiency is often relative
to the person, their weight, their build, their "life-style"? I myself don't
have any fixed ideas about it.
But if you think that intensive retreat Zen practice is a low-calorie endeavor,
you show again that you have never practiced in our way (we knew that, and
appreciate the good reasons). Not everybody else gets around to it, either.
It's a cold climate on the high mountains of the central range of central
Taiwan. I bet he had to keep warm by burning calories that way, too, when he
was away from the cook-stove, outdoors.
So, I would guess my old Shih-fu ate heartily of his rice and cooked leaves; he
always ate that way on our retreats together! On Ch'an retreats, we don't hide
our teacher away, as in Japan: he does what we do, where we do it. That in
itself, even by itself, is always, always a teaching, no matter what the task,
what the endeavor.
(He sat most of our sits with us, too, except when he was in the room during
Interview. A true Grandmother Hen, watching over us, and used the stick well).
So much for this thread.
--Joe
> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> and they did not sit around gazing at their navels they were required to do
> hard labour.
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