Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/13/2014 10:37 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: What amateurish bullshit. It looks like our emptybill doesn't practice TM anymore; has never studied any Zen under a teacher; and it looks like Bill confused the Tibetan vajra for the bell. We all get confused sometimes, but spending 5-6 years

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/13/2014 10:53 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Does this mean the bull is inexperienced, clumsy, a greenhorn at taking a crap? It sure didn't take this thread about Zen long to turn into a pile of manure. Good work Ann and Bill!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
Wind flag, mind moves, The same understanding. When the mouth opens All are wrong. - Mumon On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Richard Williams pundits...@gmail.comwrote: Zen, Dzogchen and TM [image: Inline image 1] Inside the Shambhala Meditation Center, Boulder CO According to Beaulah

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:37 PM, emptybill@... mailto:emptybill@... wrote: What amateurish bullshit. It looks like our emptybill doesn't practice TM anymore; has never studied any Zen under a teacher; and it looks like Bill confused the

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/13/2014 10:53 PM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: Does this mean the bull is inexperienced, clumsy, a greenhorn at taking a crap? It sure didn't take this thread about Zen long to turn into a pile of

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 8:44 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Now Ricky, try and be understanding. Most of the world pays homage to phalluses every day of their lives - either to their own or to those that they hope they might embrace one day. . Yeah, but not very many yogis mistake the pointing finger

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 8:49 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, dear boy, sometimes you can't make anything but manure out of manure. Let's see if we can dumb this down for you Ann: Zen is just like TM practice, and similar to Tibetan Dzogchen.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/14/2014 8:49 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: Well, dear boy, sometimes you can't make anything but manure out of manure. Let's see if we can dumb this down for you Ann: Zen is just like TM practice,

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread awoelflebater
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: On 1/14/2014 8:44 AM, awoelflebater@... mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote: Now Ricky, try and be understanding. Most of the world pays homage to phalluses every day of their lives - either to their own or to those that they hope

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 1/14/2014 10:40 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: you know more about Zen than I do but do you know more than Empty? Actually if you know about TM you already know quite a bit about Zen practice. In Zen terms, having a pure mind simply means realizing one's true nature. But, it looks

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Share Long
That's interesting, Richard because Maharishi explains Purusha as infinite silence and Prakriti as infinite dynamism. On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:10 PM, Richard J. Williams pundits...@gmail.com wrote:   On 1/14/2014 10:40 AM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote: you know more about Zen

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-14 Thread Richard Williams
It's like a Zen koan: [image: Inline image 1] Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way. When anyone asked the boy what his master had preached about, the boy would raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-13 Thread Richard Williams
Zen, Dzogchen and TM [image: Inline image 1] Inside the Shambhala Meditation Center, Boulder CO According to Beaulah Smith, I am TMer #214 in the U.S. I'm on the SIMS list at 1015 Gayley in Westwood, CA. I have a receipt for $35 signed by Jerry Jarvis. I had already completed a course in

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-05 Thread Richard Williams
According to the The Pali Canon, which is the oldest known teachings of the historical Buddha, meditation is mentioned numerous times. Other types of meditation taught by the Buddha are also found in the found in ancient commentary Visuddhimagga Practice in detail here:

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2014-01-02 Thread Richard Williams
[image: Inline image 1] Sumi painting by Shunryo Suzuki Zen Master Dogen got the Soto Zen practice from his teacher in China - Dogen was a master linguist and the author of 'Shobogenzo' in which he describes in detail the Soto Zen practice - sitting meditation. In Dogen's Zen practice, the

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: All About Zen

2013-12-28 Thread Richard J. Williams
On 12/28/2013 7:02 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't you have anything better than these old '60-s blah blah? There is simply nothing better than 60-s blah blah.