If you want to understand how form and formlessness interchange constantly, focus on chewing the rice. Shunryu Suzuki says that you can come to understand the very nature of your life through chewing the rice you just cooked.
When rice disappears into your stomach, they lose their form so that you can continue to exist and prosper in your form. One form changes hands to continue the cycle of life.
A gesture, a kiss, a slap, a step, a leap, a trip to washroom, a kernel of rice all leads us to enlightenment; they are steps of form for entry into formless. To keep the form well and alive we need to know the means of entering the formless.
Being with the rice at this moment, or anything you are doing, in your totality is what being spiritual is.
Chew your rice well.
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Harnessing Mindfulness Good Morning Parmjit I apologize for taking so long in contacting you. I wanted to let you know that the evaluations sheets we handed out after you did the session for our Divisional Day (way back in October) were all excellent. Every single staff person who attended your session was very pleased with it. They all found it very relaxing and said that they would enjoy a further session and recommend you to other departments who were having a department day similar to the one you presented your session at.
Also, I should mention that you may in the very near future hear from one of my co-workers asking you to do a session for our individual team. She is working on the logistics with our manager to see what we can do about having you come to one of our meetings.
Once again, I want to thank you for the wonderful session you did for us and wish you the best in 2009.
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