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Take Outs for 21 March 2004.

Old Man Tree

There is an old Pine Tree in our courtyard. He's stood for decades. Old Man Tree is kind of squat and fat as Pine Trees go, thanks to living in the city. His probably lonely too, no other trees in the court. Just the old man, the grass. Sure, there is a spindly old Myrtle on the northeast corner of the lot. Too timid to ask the Old Man if he would like to dance. They aren't friends. Like many of us that live here, they are neighbors unknown to each other. Still, the old man is stoic about his fate. Harsh winters, broiling summers and sopping wet springs have been his school and life. He has sat zazen through them all, just being Tree. His dharmma is simple: the water and the earth and the sun are all the truths he needs. He practices the Amisa-dana, I'm sure. Rabbits nest under his umbrella like shoulders through the winter, kept warm and dry with fallen tines. He is a master of Abhaya-dana. In the dead of the crisp-winter, so cold you cannot tell how cold it really is, as I step out to face the day, I smell the Old Man's brisk cologne as it travels on the biting zephyr racing in aimless circles around the court. He fears not the wind, the snow nor the ice, they are. He is. For that I could be so bold. "Man is truly the most timid of creatures," I say to myself, as I run to the shelter of my car. He says nothing back. It wasn't until this morning though, warm, bright and filled with all of the promise of spring that I received the gift of Old Man Tree's Dharmma-dana: The Old Man Tree sits zazen in the Courtyard. Seasons taught him truth.

The Old Man Tree
sits zazen in the Courtyard.
Seasons taught him truth.

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posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 3:23 PM by ktegels





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