Thisย Wednesday Night Meditationย included a 32-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk from Rickโs series on Wise Effort, focusing on Releasing Receiving.
One moonlit evening in 13th-century Japan, the Zen nun Mugai Nyodai was carrying water in an old bucket made of bamboo strips. It suddenly broke and she had an awakening. I particularly like this version of her enlightenment poem from the writer Mary Swigonski:
โWith this and that I tried to keep the bucket together
and then the bottom fell out.
Where water does not collect
the moon does not dwell.โ
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join myย free Wednesday Meditationsย โ which are open to everyone!
