Daishin Morgan, Rev. Master

In remembering Rev. Master Jiyu today, I was thinking of recounting an anecdote about her, but perhaps that is not the most important thing.

What matters is the teaching that they all embodied rather than their personalities. Who Rev. Master Jiyu was varies according to who is asking and who is answering. Who was she really? Nostalgia does not get anywhere near that.

In one important way, the relationship with a master reveals the nature of the relation between oneself and the world, between oneself and an other and between all things.

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