“According to the great Zen master Dogen, the path to awakening and liberation is not a line but a circle. When we sit down to remember the light of mindfulness, when we sit down to meditate or otherwise seek to awaken to what is truly abiding, we are joined by the Buddha and awakened ones from ancient times. I felt enormously supported on retreat, and I began to wonder if the Buddha’s rediscovery of the path might not have been an extraordinary act of remembering that came to benefit beings in all times.” —Tracy Cochran: “Finding the Path,” from Parabola, Volume 36, No 4., Winter 2011: “Many Paths, One Truth.” Painting by Emma Tapley, GREENBELT, OIL ON CLAY PANEL, 40” x 60”, 2010. See more of her work in the Winter Issue.
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“According to the great Zen master Dogen, the path to awakening and liberation is not a line but a circle. When we sit down to remember the light of mindfulness, when we sit down to meditate or otherwise seek to awaken to what is truly abiding, we are joined by the Buddha and awakened ones from ancient times. I felt enormously supported on retreat, and I began to wonder if the Buddha’s rediscovery of the path might not have been an extraordinary act of remembering that came to benefit beings in all times.”

—Tracy Cochran: “Finding the Path,” from Parabola, Volume 36, No 4., Winter 2011: “Many Paths, One Truth.” Painting by Emma Tapley, GREENBELT, OIL ON CLAY PANEL, 40” x 60”, 2010. See more of her work in the Winter Issue.

Source: parabola.org

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