Marsha and Kevin,
Well, my computer is fixed. I sent this last
post on [MD] tiny skull at my mother's house while the
computer was in the shop. Just got it back today.
Marsha you recommended a book. I've read the author's
'A Beginner's Mind', excellent read. The plain and
simple (another book you've recommended before Marsha)
truth of zazen is this - practice concentrating. This
is discipline = concentration = focus = static pattern
where the dynamic quality shines.
In other words -
concentrate,
SA
P.S. the woods
> Good to see your post. You've been missed.
>
> > Meditation is an event in which somebody is
> focused upon something.
> > Zazen is sitting that involves awareness and
> alertness. Zazen is attention.
> > So, while I'm meditating I'm attentive, thus,
> performing zazen, but in zazen it
> > is attention, simple. Zazen is not attention upon
> something in a steady
> > practice upon a mantra in meditation for example.
> Zazen is attention -
> > plain and simple.
>
> Zazen sounds like an "Everything Belongs" approach
> to prayer. Pay attention.
> Be present. And that which had been hiding in plain
> sight become "visible."
> I've heard it called a spirituality of subtraction,
> a la Meister Eckhart. I've also
> come to see that these practices are meaningless
> without a complementary
> active involvment in personal relationships,
> community, the world, etc. Sounds
> like you've found the same thing.
>
> Peace,
>
>
> Kevin
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