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Impossible Dream    

December 11, 2007

The Impossible Dream

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not to go
 

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
 

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far
 

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause
 

And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to rest
 

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star.
 

From MAN OF LA MANCHA (1972)                                                                                                                               Lyrics by Joe Darion

Rohatsu sesshin is a commemoration of Buddha’s Enlightenment.

One of the koans I had to work on during this sesshin were Buddha’s words exclaimed at this particular moment, and I wonder if this was another mysterious Dharma arrangement…

“Shakyamuni Buddha says: “As I now see all sentient beings everywhere, they’re endowed with the Tathagata’s wisdom and virtue. But because of deluded thoughts and attachments, they do not realize it.”

While my Polish friends were driving me to bus station after sesshin, we were sharing some impressions from sesshin. One of them discovered clearly how difficult it is to drop all attachment, and how so called “ego” plays games to protect itself from dying…

While home, I opened TV to see in what condition the world is... Another attack in Baghdad… Someone guns people in the church here… Small children dying in thousands from malaria in Africa… Human aggression is manifesting itself in all gross and subtle forms…

One does wonder weather it is really true that ALL beings, as they are, do posses Buddha’s wisdom and virtue.

And yet, this is true… Entire Universe IS a shining light…                                                WAKE UP!

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