Wash the dishes when you wash the dishes!

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Fall, 2001 Issue:
Spirit & Crisis

EDITOR'S NOTE
When Buddhists
Meet a bin-Laden

BUDDHASCOPE
Spiritual Spuds
& Alien Buddhas

DHARMATALK
On Revulsion
& Anger-Eating

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Mohammed Never
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Mental Muck-ups in
Post-Sept. 11 life

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Words to the Wise
From the Wise

POETRY
Poetic Irreverence
from the Kitchen

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IN THE ZEN TRADITION, you may hear such wise-guy advice from Zen masters as: "Wash the dishes when you are washing the dishes." In other words, stay put in the moment by paying full attention to exactly what is happening in the moments of our daily life. There is no other place to look for awareness or enlightenment, or whatever other multisyllabic word of the week we are using to label our spiritual aims. It's eye-opening advice when you put it to use. Try it the next time you wash dishes, when your mind is everywhere but on the dishes---and the feel of hot water on your hands and the smell of soap in your nostrils. In the interest of updating this sage Zen advice, Hundred Mountain Journal invites readers to submit their modern variations on "Wash the dishes when you are washing the dishes." Below are some updated versions of this classic Zen advice. Submit your own and the best ones will appear in our Summer issue. E-mail to: hundred@newwave.net

Floss your teeth, while you are flossing your teeth.

Pet the cat, while you are petting the cat.

Vote for a President, when you are voting for a President.

Ask your child what happened today at school today, when you are asking your child what happened today at school.

Write an e-mail, when you are writing an e-mail.

Say 'How are you?', when you are saying 'How are you?'

Make out, while you are making out.
(Submitted by former high school student Molly Cotto-Thorner)

Hug your father, when you are hugging your father.

Changes lanes, when you are changing lanes.

Say, 'Thanks, not interested' to the telephone sales call, when saying 'Thanks, not interested' to the telephone sales call.

Give a dollar to a street person, when giving a dollar to a street person.

Say 'I love you,' when saying 'I love you.'

Watch the sun going down, when watching the sun go down.

Die, when you die.

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