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Podcast: Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast
Episode: Shih-T'ou's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage (1 of 2)
Description: Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on August 20, 2008."I've built a grass roof hut, where there's nothing of value.
After eating, I relax and enjoy a nap.
When it was completed, fresh weeds appeared.
Now it's been lived in - covered by weeds.
The person in the hut lives here calmly,
not stuck to inside, outside, or in between."
-Shih-Tou
"When you can get past the 'It's not OK' about 'It's not OK,' and just be OK with 'It's not OK...