What We Learn When We Beg | March 12, 2015
Although we hold the bowl open for an
offering, the practice of takuhatsu [collecting alms] does not teach us
to be dependent upon society, asking for something that is not earned,
or pressuring a community for an entitlement to food or goods. Rather,
it teaches us the fundamental lessons of the Buddha: to be dependent on
everyone, to live our original homelessness, to include the homeless in
thought and deed, to share everything, to accept what comes to us, to be
generous, to be humble in society, to recognize the timid, to resist
fame, to be modest, to resist the acquisition of goods, to throw off
ego, to have the courage to be fully visible in practice.
- Eido Frances Carney, "Zen and the Art of Begging"
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