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🗓️ 27 July 2023
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Intimacy with Life (Part 2) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy - a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
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0:29.8 | Thomas Dayfriends, thanks so much for being here. |
0:33.6 | So I'd like to start with a story in the story of man driving through the country, and |
0:39.0 | it's a thick fog, and he accidentally drives off the road and gets stuck in a ditch. |
0:45.4 | And he's not injured, but his car is completely stuck in the mud. |
0:49.6 | So he walks to a nearby farm to ask for help. |
0:53.7 | And the farmer there says, oh, Warwick can get you out of the ditch. |
0:58.3 | And he's pointing to an old mule in the field. |
1:00.9 | And the man looks at this old mule and thinks, oh, my gosh, I don't know how much he can |
1:04.6 | do. |
1:05.6 | But the farmer's going, yep, Warwick can do the job. |
1:09.0 | So the man figures he has nothing to lose. |
1:11.2 | The two men and the mule make their way back to the ditch. |
1:15.8 | And the farmer hitches the mule to the car. |
1:19.4 | And with the snap of the reins, he shouts, pull Fred, pull Jack, pull Ted, pull Warwick, |
1:26.9 | and the mule pulls that car right out of the ditch. |
1:30.8 | Well, the man's amazed. |
1:32.1 | He's deeply grateful, as you can imagine. |
1:35.0 | And so he thinks the farmer, and he gives a friendly patch to the mule, and then he says, |
1:40.6 | why did you call all those names before you called Warwick? |
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