July retreat 2019:
Photo courtesy of Christine Federici
“We have all gathered here – everyone coming from a place of living in a very busy life and many from far away – in order to join at the source of this teaching, where Senshin Roshi has brought everyone together to be able to become united in that mutual becoming of one state of mind.
This is a very rare opportunity and Roshi asks that everyone please realise how important it is to be here and to put everything else aside. While we are here, everyone join in this oneness of this state of mind that we are sharing here, put everything else behind and give everything to being here together, for this length of time, until the very end and without any lapse, and to keep your efforts strong in the becoming of this oneness.
Last year, we came to Australia for the first time, and connected; this deep karmic connection. Now, building on top of that, to come and to further cultivate that. Although it is not one whole week, it is almost one week’s time, to be able to realise and to continue what was begun last year.
For a long time, this connection with Senshin Roshi was brought to life with her coming many times to Sogenji in Japan. And, having trained with her for that length of time, and then to have been able to come last year and to firm that karmic connection even more deeply. Then, this year to be able to come again, and make the roots of it deepen further, to be able to take this, and for everyone here as the numbers are increasing more and more, and to bring this deepening to each person and to realise this possibility of this ongoing karmic connection being brought to life. Although it is a small number, 16, for each and every one of these 16 people, to bring forth their greatest passion, their deep faith, their motivation and trust in this process, and to be able to, from that, realise what can be done in this time we have together.”
Excerpt from Kokuho, 15 July 2019, Shodo Harada Roshi
This is a very rare opportunity and Roshi asks that everyone please realise how important it is to be here and to put everything else aside. While we are here, everyone join in this oneness of this state of mind that we are sharing here, put everything else behind and give everything to being here together, for this length of time, until the very end and without any lapse, and to keep your efforts strong in the becoming of this oneness.
Last year, we came to Australia for the first time, and connected; this deep karmic connection. Now, building on top of that, to come and to further cultivate that. Although it is not one whole week, it is almost one week’s time, to be able to realise and to continue what was begun last year.
For a long time, this connection with Senshin Roshi was brought to life with her coming many times to Sogenji in Japan. And, having trained with her for that length of time, and then to have been able to come last year and to firm that karmic connection even more deeply. Then, this year to be able to come again, and make the roots of it deepen further, to be able to take this, and for everyone here as the numbers are increasing more and more, and to bring this deepening to each person and to realise this possibility of this ongoing karmic connection being brought to life. Although it is a small number, 16, for each and every one of these 16 people, to bring forth their greatest passion, their deep faith, their motivation and trust in this process, and to be able to, from that, realise what can be done in this time we have together.”
Excerpt from Kokuho, 15 July 2019, Shodo Harada Roshi