Remembered in Museums
As a boy I read about the complete extermination of the original people of Tasmania. I remember reflecting that I would find such a land to be barren-and I couldn't live in such a place. There I was in Hawaii, oblivious of a history of desecration that differed only in degree from the loss in Tasmania. There I was in the United States, where entire flesh-and-blood cultures are remembered only in museums. It is all too easy to be oblivious to one's own involvement.
- Robert Aitken Roshi, Miniatures of a Zen Master
This is a scheduled post. I'm back, but need some time to catch up on my reading. Here is some more of Aitken Roshi's Dharma.
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