Gyodo Sensei offers encouragement as we enter our Fall Ango Practice Period, which we might think of as a “walled garden.” We are all guardians and tenders of this garden. How do we do this? By taking good care of our lives and nurturing our practice.

What a precious opportunity and privilege it is to practice and study the Dharma. When we relate to everything with sincere reverence, it brings the sacredness of our ordinary life alive, while the metaphor of the walled garden helps us to be guardians for this practice. What are the walls that support your practice?