Soup and Boiling Potatoes

Here's an awakenening Zen talk from Koun Franz...of Thousand Harbours Zen Center
He urges us to see and accept form as our basic approach to being.
^He uses an analogy of Soup. Each ingredient is necessary to the soup and not the same without it. Remove the carrots and it's not the same flavor...Leave nothing out. 
*If you want compassion from a room you must bring it with you.
*"The form of the practice is the voice of the buddhadharma itself."
....Showing up for every moment matters because each moment matters. 
*We are not holding a space; we are being the space, the form.

Further, he adds an image of a sangha as a pot of boiling potatoes...tumbling along and rubbing off the skins of some of the others. 
Blessings Larry

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