Service with an Open Heart: Waiting tables as a spiritual practice

What does a bodhichitta look like? One might define a bodhichitta as an armorless heart. Such a heart would be completely open. It would not be protected in any way from the world around it. It would be in contact, touching the world as it embraces and appreciates. What better place could a person find to practice maintaining an armorless heart than in the service industry.

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The Master

The Master comes and goes. There are a myriad of voices, both dual and non-dual. They all come and go, and all the while, for the realized Zen practitioner, the Master integrates all of these into a free functioning human being. Yet the Master leaves no traces at all.

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Embodying Authentic Self

Realization is embodied. It is not a subjective experience gained by some objective observer. That is not what I mean by embodied. There is no separation of mind and body. No separation of self and other. There is simply an experience in the moment that is realized within the relationship we are calling the participatory self. I say that it is a relationship, because there is no self to point to. What is is an experience that is had because conditions are right.

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