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Bill -
What is a moment? If I am hungry and I prepare something to eat, then
where does just this stop being I am hungry and start being I am
preparing food? Does prepare food take me out of the immediate moment,
since it looks toward something else later? Or, is it as simple as saying
Right
Hell if I know!
On 11/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, which is a better response to your questions? This post or a slap in
the face?...Bill!
Chris -
My first wife slept through much of the labor of our first child. This was
without medication. The birth of our third child was the most difficult,
painful, and traumatic.
Nature does not subscribe to human rules of damage, loss, and harm. Nature
just is. Nature doesn't scream, it
Mayka -
Over the 4 billion or so years that planet Earth has existed, life has come
and gone many times. This infinitesimal grain of sand we call home has been
heated by volcanoes and dust, frozen over, slammed into by even smaller
rocks, and poisoned with oxygen. Each event was traumatic, and
Chris -
I think you've rebutted your own statement. The separation from Nature is
illusion, maya, etc.
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:52 PM, ChrisAustinLane ch...@austin-lane.netwrote:
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Chris Austin-Lane
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On Oct 22, 2010, at 16:40, Mark Perew mpe...@gmail.com
Sorry, Anthony. I'm a denier. My zen is completely non-metaphysical.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
ED,
The spirit world is everywhere. Edgar calls it global spirit or Tao. Both
you and I live there, before we become Buddha. You can deny its
Mayka -
I am seeking how to practice zen, both on the cushion and off. The question
of What does the mindful life look like? is the one for which I seek
answers. I do sit with a TNH sangha, led by an OI member.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.comwrote:
Anthony -
The best reply would come from Mr. Spock: Nothing unreal exists.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Mark,
Good. Do you think everything is nothing but physical? Are you a
materialist?
Anthony
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Does it matter?
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Mark,
--- On *Tue, 26/10/10, Mark Perew mpe...@gmail.com* wrote:
Anthony -
The best reply would come from Mr. Spock: Nothing unreal exists.
That is as much as to say, I have cereals
For me, the bell timer is an indicator as to how much I was in to my
mediation. When the bell sounds and I am surprised that it is sounding so
soon, then that is a clue that I was present for my breathing and not for
other things.
Yes, there are times when my mind wanders off to the bell,
Hello.
Yes, this is a common sticking point. It certainly happens to me, and I've
heard many others describe similar things.
When thoughts arise in my sitting, I acknowledge them, and then gently
return to my breathing. I've learned that the expectation of a sitting
period without thoughts
Anil -
It seems natural to push away thoughts, and to have a meta-thought, Oh,
darn. I'm thinking again. I wish that thought would go away. Instead of
doing that, one teacher has encouraged me to welcome all thoughts. He has
suggested that making an effort to push the thoughts away is
Counting breaths is just a tool. If the tool doesn't work, then get a tool
that does work.
You might try just following your breath as it enters and leaves your body.
I recall reading somewhere that in some traditions there is a teaching to
focus on the nostrils where the breath first enters,
Anil -
You and I are both fans of plain speaking. I appreciate your honesty about
that, and calling out the non-clarity in some of the other messages.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Anil Sahal a.sa...@sheffield.ac.ukwrote:
Hi, pleased to meet you.
Likewise.
IMO, rather than sitting
It sounds like the dying man feared death. (Or was suffering because of an
attachment to living.) I prefer Mark Twain's perspective:
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from
it.
On Fri, Jan
Sometimes, though, the Buddha has to leave the palace.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.comwrote:
*Mel, Chris, Anthony*
**
*TNH advices not to leave our own spiritual tradition behind as that is
part of us and our ancestors. And if we have problems with
Mayka -
In the classic Buddha myth, young Prince Siddartha was unaware of reality
until he ventured out of the palace in which was raised. Not until he
abandoned that palace could he begin the journey of understanding the nature
of life.
I respectfully submit that there are occasions when,
DP
Living in the moment, mindfulness, is very different from living for the
moment. Can you spot the difference? How might those be different in your
practice?
On Jul 21, 2011 1:16 PM, D P wookielife...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I fear nothingness because I associate it with the western view of
Sophistry
On Jul 26, 2011 10:19 AM, billsmart billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
There is presently only one official 'teacher' on the Zen Forum that I
know of: JMJM. He does preach some, but always ends his sermons with 'I have
said not a word' and therefore remains blameless.
...Bill!
--- In
persuasive speech
which targeted emotions. He won, so now we worship logic. (But still find
that rhetoric is just as powerful today as it was then.)
...Bill!
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Sophistry
On Jul 26, 2011 10:19 AM, billsmart BillSmart@... wrote
Ritual is a crutch to help the wounded walker. It is but one of many aids.
For those who need that particular aid, there comes a time when it must be
cast aside.
The Raft Parable teaches us that the the things that help us get from one
point to another will become hindrances in another context.
The fun is unimportant. I suggest letting it go.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Bill/JMJM,
I think this is the major difference between zen and other meditation
techniques. The former always discounts what you see or imagine during the
sessions
Bill -
That's the danger of fun is it not? When aren't having it, we think we're
suffering.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Mark,
Sufferring is also unimportant, and I also suggest letting it go...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Mark Perew
it
all go when you're finished having fun or finished sufferring.
...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Mark Perew mperew@... wrote:
Bill -
That's the danger of fun is it not? When aren't having it, we think
we're
suffering.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill
Zen and now?
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
What are the similarities and differences between:
o Zen and Theravada Buddhism?
o Zen and Mahayana Buddhism?
o Zen and Tantric Buddhism, Dzogchen or Mahamudra?
o Zen and zen?
o Zen and Chan?
--- In
To extend the analogy, a user interacting with the GUI may think they are
interacting with the operating system, but that would be incorrect. They
are, instead, interacting with just another program whose duty it is to
protect the operating system from the user and the user from the operating
Perhaps my meat brain is working too hard here, but I can't reconcile these
two statements:
* Without being affected by any form - external and internal, in our mind,
in our body, in our spirit, etc.
* This awareness is present, full, energized, and in sync with the life
force and wisdom of the
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