Katagiri’s Fully Alive

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Here’s another clip of Katagiri Roshi talking about the firewood and ash simile from the Genjokoan – a nice little summary of his teaching on the Universal Marketplace and really living this great life.

Katagiri’s dharma name was Great Patience – Dainin. Opening up the Writers Almanac this morning, I find this poem that fits here too:

Patience

by Kay Ryan

Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time’s fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn’t be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.

“Patience” by Kay Ryan from Say Uncle. © Grove Press, 2000.