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Appamada is a contemporary center for Zen practice, inquiry, and community, located in Austin, Texas. If you appreciate these offerings, please consider making a contribution to support Appamada with the link below.
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Fred LaMotte'My Ancestry DNA results came in.Just as I suspected, my great great grandfatherwas a monarch butterfly.Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.I am part larva, but part hummingbird too.There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow.My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine.Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin,but I didn't get h…
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Koan was from The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Koun Yamada. Case 7: Joshu's Washing the Bowls.Reflection questions:1) What were you looking for when you first entered the monastery/practice/zen center?2) How would you have reacted to this teaching back then?3) Do you notice any resistance from you or a part of you to this?4) How …
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three poems referenced :You Reading This be ready~ William StaffordStarting here, what do you want to remember?How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?What scent of old wood hovers, what softenedsound from outside fills the air?Will you ever bring a better gift for the worldthan the breathing respect that you carrywherever you go right now? Are y…
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“The Maples” ~ Marie HoweI asked the stand of maples behind the house,How should I live my life?They said, shhh shhh shhh . . .How should I live, I asked, and the leaves seemed to ripple and gleam.A bird called from a branch in its own tongue,And from a branch, across the yard, another bird answered.A squirrel scrambled up a trunkthen along the len…
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