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[This episode originally aired on December 20, 2022] One of my favorite nursery rhymes contains quite a bit of wisdom: “Row row, row, row your boat gently down the stream; merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream” • if we think of the stream as a stream of teachings, then we could consider the Buddha as the source of the stream • from that beginning a great river continues to flow over thousands of years • where does this stream flow? It flows into an ocean, which you could say is the awakening of the practitioner • you have a boat to carry you down this stream, and you have a set of oars to row with • what kind of effort do you apply? it's a steady effort, but it's also a relaxed effort: you're rowing gently, but regularly and persistently • and how are you doing all this? you're doing it merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily • it's not a big struggle; there's a sense of delight • in fact it could be dreamlike because it's not so solid, it's not so frozen • we're in a shifting and changing world; it's so dreamlike and so unreal in so many ways, but so beautiful and colorful at the same time.
By Judy Lief4.8
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[This episode originally aired on December 20, 2022] One of my favorite nursery rhymes contains quite a bit of wisdom: “Row row, row, row your boat gently down the stream; merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream” • if we think of the stream as a stream of teachings, then we could consider the Buddha as the source of the stream • from that beginning a great river continues to flow over thousands of years • where does this stream flow? It flows into an ocean, which you could say is the awakening of the practitioner • you have a boat to carry you down this stream, and you have a set of oars to row with • what kind of effort do you apply? it's a steady effort, but it's also a relaxed effort: you're rowing gently, but regularly and persistently • and how are you doing all this? you're doing it merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily • it's not a big struggle; there's a sense of delight • in fact it could be dreamlike because it's not so solid, it's not so frozen • we're in a shifting and changing world; it's so dreamlike and so unreal in so many ways, but so beautiful and colorful at the same time.

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