My dad receives Richard Rohr’s daily meditations via email and occasionally passes them along to me. When I asked for writing prompts two weeks ago, he wrote to me, “Read this. Then, in your writing, respond specifically to the last paragraph.” So here we go:
I’ve been a student of Vipassana Buddhism for years, and your father couldn’t have expressed the underlying belief any better. “ The myriad energies and activities of Earth do not exist to provide humans with a sense of sacred meaning,” is so true. The ‘practice’ of Buddhism is seeing clearly through being. I was reminded of a Zen saying: “We do not need to sit zazen, so we sit zazen”
I’ve been a student of Vipassana Buddhism for years, and your father couldn’t have expressed the underlying belief any better. “ The myriad energies and activities of Earth do not exist to provide humans with a sense of sacred meaning,” is so true. The ‘practice’ of Buddhism is seeing clearly through being. I was reminded of a Zen saying: “We do not need to sit zazen, so we sit zazen”