On the one hand I have to agree with Joe that most writers on mysticism mean
something non-dual by it. On the other hand, I have always said that with a
full blown mystical union with all and $5, you can buy coffee for yourself and
a friend.
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Anyone have any feedback on this center? My schedule for retreats doesn't
allow me to.make my customary Fenruary sesshin at Jikoji, near where I live,
but SDZC has one I can make. Anyone here have feedback on that center?
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I laugh and blush.
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 23:35, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Chris,
Maybe that was just a little too subtle...
'Um' spelled backwards is?
...Bill!
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 18:07, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Um...
?
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Does a dog have free will?
/lifts leg
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On Jan
Does a dog have free will?
/lifts leg
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On Jan 9, 2013, at 17:17, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Greetings, Fleetinginsight,
A well-considered post! Welcome.
Regarding the matter of free will in a Buddhist context, remember
Isn't the first principal of Zen to abandon hope and optimism? What we have in
front of us is our task. Any thought of it as good or bad (or getting better in
the so-called future) takes us away from the glory of that task.
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On Dec 26, 2012, at
/bow
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On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:42, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris,
Thanks for this great interchange.
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue is an activity that's been important with me
for several decades. I don't follow the
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On Dec 15, 2012, at 14:33, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris,
Thanks very much for your perspectives.
One thing jumps out for me to be clear about:
Joe wrote:
But can we also worship with them? I'd say Yes. I think that
My introduction to formal practice was thusly: I read Buddha by Karen
Armstrong, found that attentively reading about the eight fold path lead me to
the feeling I needed to fix my work situation to accord with right livelihood,
so I determined to leave my job and become a stay at home parent.
Of course current science predicts rather grim things long term anyways -
difficult to envision any non-reversible computation lasting more than a
hundred trillion years or so from now.
As the poster in my mom's laundry room said: Look to this day, for it is life,
the very life of life.
Deleting all the agreement and replying to the rest . . .
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On Dec 11, 2012, at 12:19, R A Fonda rafo...@frontier.com wrote:
As the poster in my mom's laundry room said: Look to this day, for it is
life, the very life of life.
True enough.
Mello, et al) were all
bodhisattvas in their own right.
I'm just curious how people incorporate their practice into family life.
Thanks for sharing,
Hong Yeong Soo
On 12/7/12, ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
Over eight years, my wife has twice sat with me and the kids
So what do you use? The last time I lost power thru a hurricanes action, I
used the stick of incense method.
I don't have a noun called zen, my questions were about timing the practice of
zazen, an action. I am sometimes very relieved of anxiety when the bell rings
for sure. Sometimes
On Dec 7, 2012, at 4:27 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote:
So what do you use? The last time I lost power thru a hurricanes action, I
used the stick of incense method.
I don't have a noun called zen, my questions were about timing the practice
of zazen, an action. I am sometimes very relieved
Over eight years, my wife has twice sat with me and the kids occasionally sit
with me but never for long enough to need a timer.
When I teach Sunday school we sit while I count to ten breaths two or three
times.
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On Dec 7, 2012, at 18:44,
Crap! I have been teaching my kids the honored family chant Beans beans the
musical fruit, the more you eat the better you toot, the more you toot the
better you feel, so why not eat beans at every meal!
I laugh just as hard as anyone. Hey, wait, does that mean I am ...
Well double crap! Oh
I one time let the periods go longer in order to resync the schedule after some
delay and the senior student ordered me to ring the bell! I did not let it go
longer again.
There is a story they tell in the Bay Area about Suzuki just leaving and not
coming back for hours and hours and letting
I personally find the endlessly growing requoted and unsnipped emails to be a
breach of nettiquette. Top posting and quoting the entire thread is
traditionally frowned on in text only fora, and was not normal until about ten
years ago when MS Outlook became so common.
On my phone the
Actually Godel established that truth is not a logical construct. Only
provability is. What that leaves truth as is unspecified by Godel but any human
maths worker can attest to the strange beauty of truth.
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On Nov 25, 2012, at 4:57, Edgar Owen
Being a big fan of the fictional series Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, by Kim
Stanley Robinson, I would take a one way ticket to Mars, as soon as my kids are
established as adults and probably I wouldn't get the chance anyways.
There are no Zen references in the trilogy but there are some
A logical point, but isn't the experience of non-dual reality just seeing what
is and appreciating it? The gap between what is (aka truth) and what could
be (aka beauty) is gone and where we are is just perfect precious and with the
right seeing beautiful.
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There is another good story from a similar meeting with Mr Suzuki.
He was giving some talk about Religion in Japan and explained how Biddhism was
very common for burying people and how the Shinto religious practices are for
the other major celebrations of living.
During the comments someone
Incompleteness proof
does...
Edgar
On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:37 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote:
Actually Godel established that truth is not a logical construct. Only
provability is. What that leaves truth as is unspecified by Godel but any
human maths worker can attest to the strange
or relevant..
Edgar
as moderator
On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:35 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote:
I personally find the endlessly growing requoted and unsnipped emails to be
a breach of nettiquette. Top posting and quoting the entire thread is
traditionally frowned on in text only fora
destroys the context of the reply tending
to make it less meaningful or relevant..
Edgar
as moderator
On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:35 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote:
I personally find the endlessly growing requoted and unsnipped emails to be
a breach of nettiquette. Top posting and quoting
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On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:01, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Joe,
If you think Merle is following me as her teacher that's really funny.
Merle is her OWN person. She doesn't take orders from anyone and I certainly
have never tried
In the school of Zen in which I am being trained, the whole point is only
exactly what is in the current moment. When that is a sense of profound lack of
separation with all, then that is the whole of Zen. When that is a certain
reluctance to begin the pumpkin pie cooking, then that is the very
ChrisAustinLane chris@ wrote:
There is an electronic Zendo that is completely online. They broadcast
the bell ringer on the Internet and all sit together at the same time but
not in the same place.
It seems quite different from the eyeball to eyeball teaching that I
know but I also speak from
There is an electronic Zendo that is completely online. They broadcast the bell
ringer on the Internet and all sit together at the same time but not in the
same place.
It seems quite different from the eyeball to eyeball teaching that I know but I
also speak from the outside, so to speak.
You are in a city very full of life - take a nice long walk and just smell the
incense, the fires, the dung and so on. Listen to the rain. Watch the water
flowing. If you are near to the shore, you can see the waves, the kids playing
cricket, the walkers. The walking crowds, the focused
Sometimes I can increase my clarity regarding some thought or other by saying
it aloud, and listening to my sounds.
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On Oct 31, 2012, at 17:35, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Chris,
You're correct on the 'sacred' stuff. Stuff's stuff.
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On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:23, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Joe,
So long as you take it personally as sniping rather than instruction there
will be no advancement...
Let there be no advancement. With nothing to gain, the mind is
Can one teach zen by answering a hypothetical?
Sitting on a warm bench next to a candy shop,
--Chris
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On Oct 28, 2012, at 13:44, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Merle,
Regarding the question in the Subject Line:
Re: [Zen] Re: if
I learned yoga in a Yoga for toddlers and parents class and I would definitely
recommend some sort of stretchiness bloodflow yoga for enhanced sesshin
comfort.
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On Oct 27, 2012, at 9:10, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Siska,
The
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On Oct 27, 2012, at 10:24, siska_...@yahoo.com wrote:
In Indonesia there is a saying: Many roads lead to Rome.
One truism of humanity that will be denied and debated endlessly, as we keep
holding our fixed positions so fiercely.
My toddler enjoyed whole hearted swinging on the stair rail more than the
asanas, until the final full lotus when he would sit on my lap and we'd say
good bye to the class.
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On Oct 27, 2012, at 9:57, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
PS
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On Oct 27, 2012, at 10:00, siska_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Sitting after 90mins power yoga session is very quiet as long as the yoga
itself is a moving meditation. Yin yoga has the same effect too. I think
it's not about the type of yoga, but
I don't think many zen newbies come here seeking basic advice. Generally people
with some thing to say about Zen practice are the only ones to post.
So even we all we with cups full of tea fall silent, there is just silence.
There are no monks outside in the snow.
I guess most people start
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On Oct 26, 2012, at 18:06, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Chris,
The self exists just as all illusions exist.
The idea of self exists. That is all.
There is no need to 'cling' to it. But nevertheless it exists.
How funny we can
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On Oct 24, 2012, at 0:30, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
with the exception of just a couple people on the forum I'm sure it went by
unnoticed.
Lots more reading than posting here. Despite the amazing number of postings.
It is sort of
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On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:41, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Intellectual understanding is the koan you need to solve BEFORE you can
directly experience realization. It is necessary to prepare yourself for a
correct realization...
Bill!
I suspect that consciousness is an emergent property like wetness.
There does not need to be any display - when the appropriate neurons fire in my
head, I see red.
The google result was a neuron (well a cell in a big neural net program) that
fired when presented by faces. No pixels invoked
The flowing part may be an illusion - certainly the idea
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:21, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Bill,
First sentence is correct. But both kinds of time are NOT illusion. The time
of the present moment, and the
Good sense, bad sense. Eh.
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 11:28, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Friends, Romans, Athenians, Olympians (the mountain),
Just a note:
Do you realize that we're making all this good sense beneath a subject line
Or 13,700 Million.
It's not a British Billion yet, still a few orders of magnitude to go. Not sure
why I switched the 3 to a 4. Perils of the continuous advance of knowledge
after one leaves school.
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On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:52, Edgar Owen
I must second this. I have saved an email from you Mike where in you ask some
tormenter if they do not find the world a bit cleaner after a sesshin (part of
the endless words on polishing vs. ceasing). I have not replied because this is
the crux; why do we practice when everything is complete
Well I don't find much utility in this particular definition; the function of
art may not be known precisely, but it surely has to do with things such as
conveying some communication of the interestingness of life from one human to
another.
I encourage my kids to make art when feelings too
Serving the sandwich or eating the sandwich? Or constructing the one sandwich
from the multitude of the ingredients?
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On Sep 6, 2012, at 16:45, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Yes, the sandwich will give you the same joy or more than
I have never lost a leg or two. I am attached to my legs, but I don't think
that is what they mean by attachment is the root of suffering.
I do find I can see how attachment and suffering work by watching carefully in
boring moments, and then bring the confidence of that seen experience into
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On Aug 30, 2012, at 21:20, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris,
Yes, well, I think so.
Do you disagree that Desire is for what one does not have,
and Attachment is to what one has?
They are just words, I was trying to explain
When I was a kid I always hoped I could one day get gene mods to do
photosynthesis so I would not need to eat (tho I doubt I have enough surface
area to live that way).
I will note that broccoli squeaks a bit.
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 19:38,
The very question that set Dogen travelling to China.
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On Aug 11, 2012, at 14:30, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Why practice? Why not just do it? No need to practice what is already
happening no matter what
Edgar
On Aug
On a listserv no one knows you are enlightened. But fingers do move!
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On Aug 9, 2012, at 21:49, Merle Lester merlewiit...@yahoo.com wrote:
ah ah!..merle
On 8/9/2012 3:44 AM, Merle Lester wrote:
KG..is the moving hand that once
Touché
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On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:32, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
Sounds familiar!
Mike
From: Kristopher Grey k...@kgrey.com
To:
To forget the body and mind is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things
I found one of the strongest and lasting changes from a daily sitting practice
has been seeing fingers in all manners of speech.
That quote seemed to be an adequate description of what happens when I take a
break and
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On Jul 9, 2012, at 12:29, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Without the experience of Emptiness, it just is not Ch'an.
What experience is not empty?
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you
, limiting, and keeps you at the dock.
OK.
In all seriousness, (and the above is also my hope for all beings),
Where are these beings you sustain hope for? Certainly no one here in San
Jose's northern bit, sitting in shade.
--Joe
ChrisAustinLane chris@... wrote:
To forget the body
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On Jul 9, 2012, at 14:05, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
In fact, the pure Dharma is in the orthodox, and there only
Is there a thing that is outside of this orthodoxy?
Current Book Discussion:
It is (or used to be) possible to have an email only subscription, no yahoo Id
and no web membership. So there must be about 203 such people.
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On Jul 6, 2012, at 0:09, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Joe, I have no idea. I've never looked
Stop seeking! What you have is enough.
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On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:04, Joe desert_woodwor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris,
I'm intrigued and drawn to Quaker Meeting. I have not gone yet.
There is a Meeting here in Tucson on Sunday mornings: 8 AM and
Any not to be missed stuff for a Western student of Japanese
Zen in a land only a thousand or so miles south of Gautama's living place? I
will be there for three weeks, mostly but not totally working.
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this almost dead
forum.
Both our moderators are sleeping, or impersonating foxes that sit zen based
on Joshu's a Guide to Wild Fox Zen.
Anthony
From: ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012, 22:50
Subject
I promised rewrite that I would not use the snappy short questioning reply
style to him. Plus I had the luxury of a long hot bath with an email device in
which to order my writing. Although on retreading it later, I wish I had proof
read one final time before sending.
the wants are just as
I meant more ordinary things by not doing - not believing thoughts, not getting
upset at upset, not crinkling up my mind due to the gap between expectations
and realty.
For me, it is like riding a bike: how do you go straight? Do not make the bike
go crookedly.
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 17:56, rewrisk rewrisk@... wrote:
Phillosophers speak to arouse a sense of things they understand and perhaps
hope to know.
So there is some difference between you
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On Jan 26, 2012, at 14:56, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Therefore your words make a non sense.
I have no use for non sense.
Very well.
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently
to 'know a truth.'
Such 'truth' is usefull.
I hope my writing above is more pleasing to you than my writing below.
Speak.
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 21:52, rewrisk rewrisk
Provisionally, it is a good idea to sit upright and stilly for some time each
day. Because you know i am human I when deprive myself of not doing anything I
tend to make a crock of things.
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On Jan 26, 2012, at 18:44, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au
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On Jan 24, 2012, at 23:15, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
I think that's returning to the market place with a jug of wine in your hand
and a fish hanging over your shoulder.
Good, I'm ready for a meal.
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 16:58, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
So many empty words.
As opposed to all those full words?
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are
reading!
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 17:56, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Phillosophers speak to arouse a sense of things they understand and perhaps
hope to know.
So there is some difference between you and these philosophers?
On Jan 25, 2012, at 21:22, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
So you think knowledge learnt from others is essential to the search for
enlightenment?
Others?
From some perspectives, everything experienced is teaching.
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This interchange is most amusing.
I suspect the two senior practitioners are in violent agreement.
Bill is no philosopher, tho he manifests a love of wisdom.
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On Jan 22, 2012, at 19:30, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Rubbish!
The Abyss
Is that's problem? You do something and see what happens.
There is a lot of stuff not known and a lot of wrong judgments. Oh well.
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On Jan 22, 2012, at 18:06, rewrisk rewr...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I could never know enough to be satisfied my
To encounter the absolute is not yet enlightenment.
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On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:47, Edgar Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote:
Siska,
1. Mountains are mountains.
2. Mountains are not mountains.
3. Mountains are mountains.
Edgar
On Jan 15, 2012,
As a parent, knowing that I and my children will die, I find the work of
parenting to be full of significance
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On Jan 9, 2012, at 15:11, Amy Lemmon amylem...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi! I am new to this group and fairly new to Buddhism. I am
Typing a short email addressed to someone else is eternal; the trolly doors
open, the folks get off, the doors close, and the send button sends these bits
on the way.
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On Jan 4, 2012, at 8:57, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill,
In
Any one who writes about non-duality and then implies that something (freedom)
can extend even to this fallen world of sin and samsara needs to sit a bit
more, in my opinion. It sounds like he thinks there is some other world than
this world of sin and samsara. It reeks of duality.
I won't
Let me re-phrase - in all places and times, our body mind and spirit are one.
The contents of whatever thoughts we have may or may not reflect that unity,
but they are just thoughts anyways.
For example, one may notice that a particular time of sitting will seem like
you mind was totally
a
unified body and mind - that is already there.
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On Dec 5, 2011, at 6:57, ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
Let me re-phrase - in all places and times, our body mind and spirit are one.
The contents of whatever thoughts we have may
, 2011, at 7:48, Chan JMJM chan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed Chris, Buddha agrees with you, every sentient being could be
enlightened, once they rid of their karmic hindrances. JM
On 12/5/2011 7:01 AM, ChrisAustinLane wrote:
Hit send too soon.
As a time of sitting
of
that is Bill, assisted strongly by me.
Fox Lietenant
From: ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 0:56
Subject: Re: [Zen] Practice Of No Mind
Gotta tell ya, the karmic hindrances clause really
You will be born as a fox if you aren't careful.
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On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:25, siska_...@yahoo.com wrote:
not because of anything
Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are
Thanks - another pape rbook I can give away. I didn't read the critique yet but
the way to read all these Westerners visit Japan books is as travelogues - not
explanation of the destination culture but as a book about a US guy travelling.
You learn about a journey and about a guy - as much
Do you disagree that the awareness of mentation is a sixth sense? (as I have
considered the heart sutra et alia to imply? And which I personally find to be
a very freeing bit of Buddhist insight).
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On Nov 2, 2011, at 21:39, Bill!
Have you ever seen the graphic displays of the raw memory content of the
machine? They are quite pretty but not readily comprehensible.
Incidentally - a byte is two hex digits eg f7 and a word is traditionally four
- eg ae08 but most systems now are fundamentally 4 or 8 bytes in word length.
thing, it is a collection of illusions,
so I believe it is not in the same category as the other senses.
This answer was arrived at without much thought so don't hold me to it to
closely in the future...
...BIll!
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Do you
I don't know. What is the difference between zen and Buddhism?
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On Oct 21, 2011, at 20:08, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Hey! Where is everybody? Are you all meditating or out playing golf or
something? I haven't seen a post for a
So the reason I keep responding to these step by step things is two-fold:
1. I tend to infuse the phrase step by step or path with the idea of going
some where else or intentionally changing a given nervous system, and
implicitly some split of reality into better/more steps done and
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On Oct 14, 2011, at 21:43, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Anthony,
The signposts you see on a journey are not the ultimate goal, but are
nevertheless useful for giving you an indication of where you are and at what
stage of
, the
pathless path) of where you're 'at' and Zen *does* acknowledge them. Again,
talking in ultimates is what causes you to become a fox for 500 lives.
: )
What ever.
Mike
From: ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.net
To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Zen_Forum
this
thinking. It is just thinking, you can't let that ruin a moment.
Siska
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:13:35 -0700
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Welcome. There is a decent book on how to sit zazen that explicitly by a person
who also is Christian. Zen for Christians: a Beginners Guide, by Kim Boykin
(with a blurb quote from my own teacher, Sensei Rosemary Dougherty).
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0787963763/
For having an easier
Sometimes transient mail problems will cause them to stop sending mail to your
account. There is a button on the account page to cause them to send a mail
that will reactivate the mail. There is also an option for the moderator to
resend them. I am vague on the details.
Thanks,
Chris
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On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:41, siska_...@yahoo.com wrote:
rather, what is the difference between cruelty and good?
To get a bit sophistical on you, same as the difference between being
surrounded by bodhisattvas or being surrounded by demons, the
And the monk was clearly not in a situation where telling a good story or two
was a gift to the listeners.
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Chris Austin-Lane
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On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:11, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Bill,
Touching stories.
Is the monk moral or amoral?
What
or devils or demons that surround me.
Still a long way to go.
Siska
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Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
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On Aug 31, 2011, at 0:09, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明chan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Forum,
Do you consider Zen/zen/your practice a Mahayana practice? If so, how does
Mahayana actually practice?
I sit.
What is its core teaching?
If you give something away and then learn that you gave with some expectations,
that is also interesting to see.
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
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On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:03, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
JMJM;
Just giving different perspectives of the theme
23, 2011, at 9:26, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi Chris:
I have some experience on that one and can tell you that the outcome is:
Disappointment, most of times. What do you think?
Mayka
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