that. In Zen Mind, Beginners Mind it says that you
should push the head up and the abdomen down as if one were supporting
the sky, but when I do this it feels all wrong. I guess what my
question is in Zazen is it right to hold onself in a certain posture?
thanks,
Chris
Current Book
Of course I meant unanswerable questions.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Chris Austin-Lane
ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
Buddha also had a whole list of answerable questions and as he died,
said, Oh, by the way, I meant to change some of the rules I put forth
earlier, but I haven't got time
orthodoxy.
--Chris
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:17 AM, maitreya003 joult...@gmail.com wrote:
More of the quote is below. Be a lamp unto yourself.
but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth
as their refuge, shall not look for refuge to anyone beside themselves
I've heard that Dogen had some statement about compassion to the
effect that compassion is the hand fluffing the pillow for the head.
--Chris
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:36 PM, maitreya003 joult...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that Jesus and Buddha advocated the development of compassion toward
all
Forwarded from the Zen Community of Baltimore:
Dear fellow AZTA teachers and friends,
I bring you sad news this evening. Aitken Roshi passed away at 5:35 PM
this afternoon. He was 93 years old.
Roshi's energy had been a little low the past week or so but he had
still been working on his writing
,
Feeling a sublime formless ...
Bad words stick in mind.
coats boots mittens too
putting them on again. whew.
Oh no! Time to pee.
And for today:
Ideas clashing hard!
Typing with great heat to fix.
Zen_Forum flows on.
Ahh, the indulgence. Thanks,
--Chris
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:59 AM, DP
Imagining that fear of death is an uncomfortable problem seems no
different from imagining that dying is an uncomfortable problem.
It's not something to worry about - some times people are afraid of dying.
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM, roloro1557 roloro1...@yahoo.com wrote:
Everyone is afraid
into the room :)
--Chris
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, DP wookielife...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I have a strange feeling towards other Buddhist traditions. While I find
interesting messages in reading about Christianity or even Islam and Judaism
(Hinduism I find too alien, although I love some
I think it is more than that. People are shallow, sure, that's
nothing new. But I wouldn't say that there is no change recently in
the degree of various cultures mixing around. I had a most
interesting conversation with my Indian-born co-workers the other day
about how their parents want the
a seamless reality, which is just this reality right here.
--Chris
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:26 AM, salik888 novelid...@aol.com wrote:
Dear Mike
Another good question -- compelled? To a certain extent, yes, but not
entirely.
In the case of Rumi and Sufis, the Beloved (Absolute)is longed
So people are saying that there is more to the Sufi way than the Rumi quote
calendars at the health food store or the Martian whirling dervishes in Kim
Stanley Robinson's books?
OK, I am listening.
On Sep 14, 2010 7:10 PM, billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Chris and Artie,
I assume from
are that mistakes would have been
make. The native american cultures did hunt to extinction almost all of the
large mammals that were here when they got here. People are people; look to
the conditions to explain the differences.
--Chris
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Maria Lopez flordel
me that you believe this! If I believed that
myself, I'd be sadder than I am, but reasonable people disagree as they say.
:-)
--Chris
randomness as to which group of humans would develop technology first,
assuming all the groups are pretty similar in intelligence and motivations
and behavior.
--Chris
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
People are people; look to the conditions to explain
on the
various numbers of genocides throughout modern history, and an interesting
chapter on a rather bloody band of non-human primates. I personally feel
rather ashamed of our record on that score, but I know we are fascinated by
violence as a group.
--Chris
consider to be repellent. Perhaps I was hasty to use the word, my point was
I would not myself claim to be better than people in the past who
experienced various conditions that I don't.
--Chris
Only you know :)
Personally, I have found it to be more satisfying to try to avoid
getting the last word. On the internet, you win if you don't reply
one more time. They are just trying to goad you into more and more
extreme positions until you break Godwin's rule.
http://xkcd.com/386/
On
When you swim well, your intelligence is not separate from your action, but
indivisible. At that point the things you could think about swimming, things
you read in books, are not necessary to think. The intelligence is there in
the action.
All these words about thoughts vs perceptions seem to
Are you then saying that there is a cause of pervasive disappointment?
Could a way to escape pervasive disappointment?
Only if one has pervasive deluded expectations?
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Jane ch...@... wrote:
One is tempted to generalize that the nature of living is
minutes
and would sometimes walk faster, sometimes walk slower.
Also, a lot of US Zen training is from a dual-lineage, Sanbyo Kyodan
tradition, which uses a bit of each. Maezumi Roshi was in that
lineage.
--Chris
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Jody W. Ianuzzi j...@thewhitehats.com wrote:
Hello
Dogen (the founder of Soto) quotes a number of well known koans in
Shobogenzo. There are no hard and fast lines between any pieces of reality.
--Chris
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Anthony Wu wu...@yahoo.com.sg wrote:
Chris,
Any zen practice can be a mixture of different lineages. Now
Also, I'd like to add that there's nothing inherently wrong with worrying;
it is certainly isn't something to worry about!
:-)
--Chris
sand next to the river :)
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.comwrote:
a modest person is a real blessing in a world religious cheaters ,
manipulators, ambitious and fakes in general. It's not true that a modest
person can't get into the heart of zen
To know zen, the easiest method is to sit zazen.
You are free to try other methods, of course.
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:50 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, billsm...@... wrote:
[Anthony:] Zen is illogical, so undefinable.
[Ed
Ohh, now you've gone too far.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Internet browsing/groups
Really, just keep sitting and what ever else becomes necessary will be easy
to see.
I have to agree with this.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
but I think the development of scientific research into meditation helps
completely separate Zen from the more faith based systems of religion (a
belief in something supernatural in the
colloquialism, Makya,
meaning not preferred by everyone. I'm sorry, but biking in the rain is
just not my cup of tea.).
De gustibus non disputandum,
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm not intereted in a 'give and take'. I am intereted in expressing my
when we had to dissect the cat.
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris, do you possess an academic background in
neurophysiology/neuropsychology etc. ?
Oddly enough, you actually posted three replies to my initial post, none of
which confessed to have reading it however, so I ignored them.
I don't really have a shortage of articles and stuff to read - I have a
shortage of people that have read the same stuff I find interesting.
--Chris
On Tue
If anything, zen suggests to me Not Always So and to look at the given
situation, not relying on pre-formulated rules.
Carpe Diem fits the situation sometimes, definitely.
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
And, you would agree that zen suggests
!
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
Sent from a cell phone
On Nov 3, 2010, at 16:17, Anthony Wu
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wrote:
Bill Smart himself is also an illusion. Don't atttach any spiritual
significant.
Anthony
--- On *Wed, 3
i believe that regular sex is an affirmative duty of the husband in most
Jewish traditions so perhaps the Lord is smiling
On Nov 8, 2010 2:49 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Injaculation or ejacultion, Jehovah would not be amused. --ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Wu
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Kristy McClain healthypl...@yahoo.comwrote:
Chris,
To the contrary. I do not recommend Big Mind , necessarily. In fact, I
have said here that it is not a process that works for me. It seems a bit
like group therapy, but not about zen. I know it well, as I
healthypl...@... wrote:
Chris,
To the contrary. I do not recommend Big Mind , necessarily. In fact, I
have said here that it is not a process that works for me. It seems a bit
like group therapy, but not about zen.
I know it well, as I have a home in UT, (though I live in CA). Gempo
.
Now that I write and re-read that, I think once people have sat for a while,
asking why sit is sort of like asking why do we eat :)
Thank you for the opportunity to explicitly write about myself.
--Chris
One slight quibble I have with this.
I think calmness is the natural state of the mind, and sitting allows that
to be seen.
The mind becomes calm when people stop ruffling it up, not when people calm
it.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:16 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Sitting can calm the
of not
doing.
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
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On Dec 21, 2010 7:14 AM, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 chan.j...@gmail.com
wrote:
Good morning All,
Viki has been meditating with us for over 10 years now. Through out her
journey, she has learned to give, to give, to give, to serve, to serve
and serve, while her husband, Dr. Tracy Lee with an
Head Teacher? Congrats on the promotion.
I think I just sent a blank message to everyone, sorry about that.
I do agree that liberation in our society cannot be separated from
feminism. The very first training for learning the handing over of
your own lamp to another, or of trying to juggle two
of one group to the
detriment of another.
But, as judged by whom?
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@... wrote:
I do agree that libera...
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be hundreds of pages long.
--Chris
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:57 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill -
Never underestimate the creativity and power of the discursve mind! It
keeps millions of Internet groups and hundreds of millions of posters
occupied and happy. This is what
On Thursday, December 23, 2010, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
In the final analysis, you are 'right.' 'Liberation' is indeterminate,
whether claimed for self or by others.
Play with anyone and everyone you please, whether liberated or not - provided
you are enjoying it - and then 'walk
On Sunday, December 26, 2010, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Will experiencing kensho-satori affect a zenist's deep inner relationship to
the other sex?
Paying attention to what is in front of you will affect how you treat
people. If you were brought up sexist and are trying to raise
On Tuesday, December 28, 2010, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精 wrote:.
All you have to do is to stop search outward and begin searching
inward.
I thought that there is no separating outside from inside. And that to
find what you seek, stop searching.
When I use the word Mindfulness, which I try never to do, I just
mean paying attention. Not Thoughtfully or cognitively coherent
or anything like that. I just mean 'watch it!' Like my dog watching
me when I do something that might lead to a walk or might not.
For me, when I have the feelings
Zazen
On Jan 6, 2011 7:05 AM, Dave P wookielife...@yahoo.ca wrote:
So how does one separate ego from mind?
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Wu wu...@... wrote:
Dave,
Â
Fear of dementia, fear of death, fear of fear... are indications of your
strong ego. Anything that...
Â
To eat the peach or make do with the picture of a lovely peach. It is a
daily choice we face.
On Jan 8, 2011 11:18 PM, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hello again Dave.
I haven´t read any comment from you or anyone else about video suggestion
Thich Nhat Hanh, with the tittle
enjoy the to and fro of verbal interchanges.
Thanks,
--Chris
PS The eat the peach/scrutinize the picture of the peach is a reference to
a Dogen essay, where the title is actual something more along the lines of a
bowl of rice or a picture of a bowl of rice, not a peach.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8
On Jan 12, 2011 1:16 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear Bodhidharma, I thank you that I am not a sinner
like these non-practicing Zen folk appear to be.
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane chris@... wrote:
I do not come to the forum expecting it to be a place just
On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Mel gunnar19632...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
--- On Thu, 13/1/11, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
Practice doesn't change the nature of what living is.
-
MEL: It doesn't change
Sounds like 25 minutes of sitting a day is ok. Also, physically,
sitting on the zafu with legs crossed feels healthier, more active
than slouching in a office chair. It requires active balance for the
abdomen, something my office chair does not require.
Perhaps I should switch my office to be
, January 8, 2011, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
To eat the peach or make do with the picture of a lovely peach. It is a daily
choice we face.
Back to Mel:
This is just the thing about Zen...we all eventually become our own counselors
We are all already our own conselors. Zen
On Friday, January 14, 2011, Mel gunnar19632...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
--- On Fri, 14/1/11, Chris Austin-Lane ch...@austin-lane.net wrote:
There is more cultural baggage attached with the church, so the times when
recommending it seem useful are rarer is the main difference
see what we see, is
all I was saying. There's no clear line between knowing that you are upset
and knowing that your neighbor is upset.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Rose P things_r...@yahoo.com wrote:
I think what I'm saying Chris, is *should* we be assessing (at all), if zen
isn't really
/
Cheers,
Chris
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Seems to me zen would be how you listened to the music or how you made
the music, not what kind of music. If you listen whole heartedly, not
adding in a lot of distracted chains of thought on top of listening.
For meditation, as close to silence as life gets seems best.
John Cage is pretty hip,
On Monday, January 17, 2011, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Every individual with some ego-strength may feel that he/she has found
another 'only right way' (which works for themselves.)
You may wish to judge her based on the wiki article, but her leaving
Buddhism i think is like the
, kindly but without the aura of
sanctitude is refreshing. And Monkey King is a very appealing hero to my
kids, he keeps being bad but without ill will and makes up for it. And great
powers to boot.
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
Sent from a cell phone
On Jan 15, 2011, at 15:07, Anthony Wu
wu
non-judgmental response is nothing. Forgive my clumsy
assumption if that is not your intended implication.
I continue to find that for many of the ethical debates of our age,
there are useful actions I can take do.
--ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane chris@... wrote:
Thanks
states, which is so rare on the
internet. I hope we do not abuse that trust.
May you be free of suffering,
--Chris, who would rather stay in the tub doing email than go resume
my fatherly duties of attention and cooking.
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Anil Sahal a.sa...@sheffield.ac.uk wrote:
IMO, rather than sitting with the intention to
not have thoughts arise, it is better to sit without any expectations at
all. Who is relishing sitting?
This question Who is is sort of a standard zen joke:
Two
, trying to be wholesome is more likely to make you miss
seeing the unwholesome parts of your own reality and thereby become more
likely to be blind to the harm you are causing.
--Chris
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Kristy McClain healthypl...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hi Bill,
I agree. Lets get drunk
Snort. That was the first album I totally memorized.
On Friday, February 4, 2011, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
One thing I'll say for him,
Jesus is cool.
Caiphus - JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, SteveW eugnostos2000@... wrote:
--- In
the systems do their jobs, but I must say making it into a
system governed by logic and reason, not gonna happen. :-) but that is
fine, the idea of a man governed by logic is just an (enjoyable) fantasy.
Live long and prosper,
--Chris
On Feb 4, 2011 8:43 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote
.
Cheers, Chris
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Brett Corbin brettalancor...@yahoo.comwrote:
I think logic and wisdom are two different things, here is my definition...
logic is knowing the truth, wisdom is applying it.
Brett
http://www.pbase.com/brett1963
--- On *Fri, 2/4/11, Chris Austin
long and prosper,
--Chris
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about it.
Congrats again on your promotion, JMJM.
--Chris
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On Saturday, February 5, 2011, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill, Brett,
Does either of you possess the talent of distinguishing the 'wise' from the
unwise?
If i may, yes, of course they have that talent. We all have that talent.
Perhaps we over look it, but it is here, every moment.
or Zen either.
--Chris
for therapy.).
Thanks,
Chris Austin-Lane
+1-301-270-6524
On Feb 10, 2011, at 15:41, Brett Corbin brettalancor...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have been using visualization lately and have been finding it to be
very helpful. What I do is, I go in to my normal meditation, focusing
in on my breathing, when I
Excellent
On Feb 12, 2011 12:50 AM, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org wrote:
Lesson 1
http://www.billsmart.com/mp3/This%20is%20Your%20Life%20-%20Dust%20Brothers.mp3
...Bill!
I was at a parenting workshop
On Feb 13, 2011 3:09 AM, Maria Lopez flordel...@btinternet.com wrote:
Anthony:
My sister and any member of my family have me at any moment they want me.
In fact, it was very complicated lo leave Scotland as we were having for
several weeks in a row an almost non
their own responsibility to be sensible to the teacher.
--Chris
On Feb 22, 2011 11:24 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Love, idolization, respect, gratitude, etc. - whatever.
Thanks, ED
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane chris@... wrote:
Love != idolization
, and no end to the struggle, except
for the end of us. Ah well!
--Chris
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2011/2/25 Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 chan.j...@gmail.com:
Besides, enlightened being has no self. The entire focus, or heart, is
filled with the suffering of others.
Just to point out the obvious, those are two distinct statements, and
the first, being has no self, is true of all of us, know we
factor,
and more likely to be amenable to intervention than fully fulfilling some
endless mutating desire.
The way to end desires is to be able to have them without feeding them.
Neither push towards nor push away.
--Chris, rather gradually catching up after a week of sesshin and a week at
Universal
now for severing a student/teacher relationship to enable a more
conventional romantic relationship to flower without that specific imbalance
working against the lovers. That makes sense to me. They also aren't
dependent on one big famous teacher who is in charge of the whole thing.
--Chris
I just read a good sci-fi book exploring how that might start to
happen, Zendegi, by Greg Egan.
The end up with the maxim:
If you want to make it human, make it whole.
Apparently there really is a Human Connectome Project trying to make
a digital map of the brian.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at
I agree with a lot of what you write also, Ed, but I rarely post when I
agree with what is beimg said.
On Mar 4, 2011 7:37 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill, you are the only one who agrees with me (occasionally), and your
agreement certainly counts (with me)!
--- In
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, ChrisAustinLane chris@... wrote:
Samsara is no different than nirvana. It is a matter of do you believe life
is a
seamless whole or ...
Oh Oh, Chris, you have have given the insight-building ball of samsara on
this forum another push!
;-) --ED
Our current configuration
The patriarchs did not regard non duality as a trick. There is nothing
hidden here. normal brains are in nirvana. Sometimes they get distracted
and do not notice or mistake a thought for life but life flows on any ways
As always, thanks.
Chris
On Mar 5, 2011 12:46 PM, ED seacrofter
On Saturday, March 5, 2011, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Chris, replace the third statement of my post below with:
If not in a state of kensho-satori, the human mind can not apprehend the
truth of: 'Samsara is no different than nirvana.'
That seems so absolutist. I do not know about
It sounds then ED that perhapsby
On Mar 7, 2011 8:35 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, mike brown uerusuboyo@... wrote:
ED,
Why should there be something 'extra'?
These no need at all.
To me the transformation is significant if it enhances active
Sorry, I bumped the send button too soon.
So, ED, it sounds like for you a path of social service or of engaged
compassion would be more appealing than a path of meditation. That seems
fine.
Zen advertises itself as being of no merit, no goal, and it does indeed seem
to meet that promise.
If
@yahoogroups.com, Chris Austin-Lane chris@... wrote:
So, ED, it sounds like for you a path of social service or of engaged
compassion would be more appealing than a path of meditation. That seems
fine.
I said was unimpresed by a person's enlightenment, if it does not push
him toward devoting his
that's what the hand does, no big deal.
--Chris
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
I like that.
But there is 'awakening' and then there is 'awakened'.
It's a complex business!
Beyond words?
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Chris Austin-Lane chris
At the time, in the moment, it is clear. I did not mean something which
would be labelled appropriate, but acting appropriately.
On Mar 7, 2011 7:57 PM, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Chris,
...and able to see when action is appropriate.
When (before or after) and who
It is just clear. My original post wasn't about sending food to the hungry
orphans, I am not sure where you got that; or compassion either.
--Chris
On Mar 8, 2011 3:38 AM, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Chris,
At the time, in the moment, it is clear.
Do you mean
On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, mike brown uerusub...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Chris,
My apologys if I've got my wires crossed. I thought your original post was
referring to compassion when you said that, sit, allow your body/mind to
stop twisting itself up, see that we are all one, all changing
. Certainly not in the
example I used of catching an ice cream scoop as it falls to the floor. I
suppose when you are trying to decide on what house to buy with your spouse,
some planning activity is useful, but I try not to get carried away with it
or too attached.
--Chris
Red Pine has a Diamond Sutra translation also. His normal beautiful
English, a novel interpretation and interesting textual commentary.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM, SteveW eugnostos2...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello. JM mentioned the excellent Diamond Sutra. Many translations can be
difficult.
Sure, I wasn't trying to pry into your motivation, I apologize if I
did pry. I was merely disagreeing with your comment.
Certainly it makes sense to be careful of your privacy when posting to
a public, recorded, forum.
Thanks for your sweet email.
On Mar 7, 2011 10:41 PM, ED
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明
chan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
Thanks to ED, we had some wonderful discussion recently.
May I suggest some posting sharing your personal
realization/witness/journey so that we can all learn?
Seems to me ED
Thanks for the clarification! Be careful, when you are climbing a lower
ridge, it will block your view of the distant peak.
Do you find apparent begger women asking for a bit of bread, or stuck
animals asking for help as you journey?
Haha, just kidding.
Cheers,
--Chris
On Mar 9, 2011 2:05 AM
On Mar 10, 2011 2:25 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Mike,
I rarely if ever apologize, because I do not go about doing harm or
intending to do harm to anyone.
Perhaps I should apologize more to women whose feelings have been hurt by
what I say. I tend to treat women on a par with men -
Whoops. Sent too soon.
So do you skip saying hello or goodbye because we are already there, no
where to go, no one to greet?
:)
My socialb group has different norms obviously.
On Mar 10, 2011 2:25 PM, ED seacrofter...@yahoo.com wrote:
Mike,
I rarely if ever apologize, because I do not go
I only like such posts for arguing, but I like you too much, JMJM, to
argue with all your posts.
But, since you ask,
Isn't any realm still a conditioned and relative existence? Do we not
strive to dissolve all such distinctions?
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Bill! billsm...@hhs1963.org
Because what he said is much funnier. True zen laughs often.
On Mar 13, 2011 9:30 PM, Kristy McClain healthypl...@yahoo.com wrote:
Bill,
Well then..
If they are no hidden meanings or secretive ideas-- then why didn't he just
say that his teachings were available to all, and he expected
Learned teachers who have meditation experience and are not so involved in
ceremonial issues or politics are the safest guides.
The Tibetan tulku Shamar Rinpoche speaking to Tricycle on how to find a
Tibetan teacher. Seems true for finding a Zen teacher as well.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Kristy McClain healthypl...@yahoo.comwrote:
Chris,
True enough.. but while i haven't followed this thread.. ..is there is some
implied threat or point. Whose efforts are in vain-- and what where the
hopes anyway?
Thanks..k
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