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Take your Daemon out to dinner or it will dine on you

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Mar 18, 2021
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“Sometime in the 80s or 90s, I saw a bumper sticker on a VW bus. I stopped dead when I saw it but the moment I turned away and headed up the trail toward Muir beach, I forgot what it said. I often remember it, but differently. What I believe the yellow letters on a once vibrant green background said, “Take your shadow out to dinner or your shadow will eat you.” It’s been important to me so I’ll never forget it.”
“Once, when Baso was walking with his disciple Hyakujo, wild ducks were flying over them. Baso, the great teacher, said, ‘What are they?’”
“Hyakujo said, ‘They are wild ducks.’  Baso said, ‘Where are they going?’  Hyakujo said, ‘They are flying away.’”
“Baso gave Hyakujo’s nose a great tweak.  Hyakujo cried out with pain.  Baso said, ‘Did they indeed fly off?’”
“Dr. Con said, ‘I doubt those were crows. They certainly weren’t ducks’”
“When this family appeared they all flew away.”
“‘Sometimes bare branches are the most beautiful,’ he sd.”

References: https://suzukiroshi.sfzc.org/dharma-talks/may-1964/

SETCHO’S VERSE
The wild duck! What, how, and where?
Baso has seen, talked, taught, and exhausted
The meaning of mountain clouds and moonlit seas.
But Jo doesn’t understand – “has flown away.”

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