Florence Caplow is a Unitarian Universalist minister, Soto Zen priest, former conservation biologist, activist, writer, and editor. She edited and contributed toWildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental and Place-Based writing, andThe Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Woman. Her essays can also be read online at Slipping Glimpser: Zen Wanderings and Wonderings.
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Walking on Lava: Shikataganai
I want to tell you what I know about shikataganai. I learned it in an empty prison, a long way from anywhere, and understood it as I sat in meditation in a garden in the middle of that prison. I offer it to you as a gift, as it was offered to me.
September 20, 2017