‘Suzuki Roshi was into stones. Like the one he broke his finger on. He talked about them as if they were alive and different kinds of stone – dead and alive. On one level it’s like stones that are vivified and stones that are absorbent – that breathe water and the oxygen. Those that inhale and exhale. There’s also in the Dogen sense of the mountains walking and then everything’s alive. I think he felt that all stones are sentient beings and some are more active than others. He understood stones as an organism.’ (from cuke.com)
Paul Discoe
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I think Suzuki Roshi, Dogen, and you will appreciate the podcast and radio show “Everthing Is Alive.” I have written to them several times to tell them that I think the concept and production are brilliantly creative. https://www.everythingisalive.com/I first heard them on SiriusXM radio on the PRX channel (public radio exchange), then found their website, where you can also listen. It’s also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.Each episode consists of two people, an interviewer and an actor playing an inanimate object. The interviewer asks what it’s like to be that object. The “object” improvises the answers.More about the show:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Is_Alive_(podcast) andhttps://www.google.com/search?q=everything+is+alive+podcastAfter the first time I listened to an episode, while driving, I wondered how the car felt about being driven, whether it was satisfied with how I took care of it, how different parts of the car, like the steering wheel and tires, felt about their role in life, and how the road felt about being driven on.The show really brings to life the experience of “everything is alive.”
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Very nice, thanks for sharing. I will check it out 🙏🏼
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