Chris, If you've only practiced for 3 years and already don't know exactly
what you're doing, you're making very good progress. It takes many people 5
or 10 years before they finally reach the critical point where they give up
trying to know. Some never reach that point and live their entire liv
Hello. I may have been a member here before, but I can't remember. I
just started practicing Zazen again. I practiced everyday for about 3
years and then off and on for the last two. I'm still not sure exactly
what I'm doing. I realize that posture is very important and I had a
question about t
Dear Donald:
I answered before but I do not know where it went the answer when I
click on the Send.
Trying again:
Thank you for your good intentions, insight, guidance, advice and
support which I really value because I sense that you are a
practicioner into the practice. However, it seems as
Dear Donald:
I appreciate your good intentions by giving advice and guidance. It
is possible that because my english language is not very good that
you are getting wrong messages from the contribution in which I am
not using the words of any master but just my own words explaining
what do I d
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Dear Mayka,
I sense from your first post, that you were looking for practices that helps
and not theories or logic. I understand.
As you know there are many school for Zen. I can only share with you what I
was taught and experienced in along with many other practitioners.
In our school, we
Good morning Mayka,
It will take much more than what you posted to offend Bill. Please do not
worry. All is Zen. Life is Zen. We are Zen.
Bill was trying to hint that the "Buddha is in all of us." Please be one with
it.
Or in human terms, please be positive.
Namaste,
Donald
Mayka <[E
Excellent practice. This is identical to what Buddha did as described at the
beginning of Diamond Sutra.
A bow to you.
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Mayka,
Why do you say
Mayka,
You might enjoy these. These discuss what enlightenment is and our inherent
Buddha nature.
Diamond Sutra: http://www.terebess.hu/english/diamond.html
Sutra of Hui Neng, The Sixth Patriarch:
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/huineng/content.html
Both of these are
I think that everyone faces this. All of us start out with some negative
habits. But we just keep trudging along as best as we can and do better
that is the blessing of mindfulness and being aware of our every action,
feeling, etc. When we do this we do not have to dwell on the feelings, etc
Mayka wrote:
Dear Bill:
Do you feel yourself as an enlightened person?. It seems as my piece
of written has offended your ego. Sorry, I didn't mean!.
Mayka, In a very recent post you wrote:
"We are not enlightened, why then we should be so dull and pretend something
that we are not?."
In my pr
Dear Bill:
Do you feel yourself as an enlightened person?. It seems as my piece
of written has offended your ego. Sorry, I didn't mean!.
Have a good practice day
Mayka
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Makya posted:
Do you have yourselves negative emotions?. How do you deal with
them?. Please share with the group your all experiences.
My self does generate negative emotions - anger, fear, sadness, jealousy,
hate, etc. When this occurs the entire universe is angry, fearful, sad,
jealous, hatef
Mayka,
Why do you say 'We are not enlightened.'? This is a very curious statement
to me. Why do you think that?
I will share with you my daily practice: I wake in the morning. I stretch.
I shower and clean up. I sit zazen. I watch the early morning news on TV
while preparing and eati
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