Last Friday was Valentines Day. I thought we might not have our “usual”
number of people attending 12 & Zen, but I was wrong. Twelve people showed up. Step Two was our Valentine. We had a good time of it all.
Step 2: Came to
believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Koan: Abiding
nowhere, the mind appears.

Abiding. It means
continuing for a long time or to stay or live somewhere for a long time. Nowhere.
Not here, not there, but still abiding is taking place somewhere;
that place of no thoughts of “where”.
One person said abiding nowhere was when they were not attached to
beliefs, and stories, etc.
Another person said, “The mind appears; but it’s not my mind.” You could say God, or the collective consciousness
of the Universe, or Big Mind (as opposed to our day-to-day little mind. It's a totally different view of things because we, the "viewer", are changing.

Bill
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