Nothing in itself...

" A path is nothing in itself. It is the impression left by the tread of feet of those who went before.

The relief of recovering a path is that of being reconected with others like myself....

For a path is an intersubjective space. Its free and pursposive trajectory is created and maintained

by those who use it. Leave it for a year or two, and grasses and weeds will reclaim it.

As you walk along a path, you are indebted to every man, woman, child and dog who preceded you.

And each time you place a foot on the ground, you maintain the path for those who will follow. In pushing aside a fallen branch, you take responsibility for those who will come later....

Buddha recognized that it was not enough to find a path. One had to cultivate it....

The survival of a path is achieved not by preserving it but by walking it -

even when you have no clear idea of where it will lead."

Stephen Batchelor

In the same way a dojo is nothing in itself...

A teacher is nothing in itself...

A student is nothing in itself...

I am because you are not...

You are because I am not....

And yet ....

because of this

we all are.

Or, are we...?

mcr

Sensei Myriam