Free From Want! I cannot try to be. Zazen is the key. Thank you Bill.
--- In [email protected], daniel sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the advice. I'm trying to practice Zen myself.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:06:17 AM
> Subject: [Zen] Re: beginning again
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps.com, "cid830" <summitjags@ ...>
wrote:
> >
> > what are the precepts?
> >
> cid830,
>
> Knowledge of Buddhist Precepts, Refuges, etc..., are not a pre-
requiste
> for practicing zen. In fact in most cases they are, as is all
> knowledge, a hindrance.
>
> The only thing necessary to practice zen, if that is your
interest, is
> to sit - meaning do zazen. Pacticing zazen clears your mind of all
> intellectual and emotional clutter, including concepts such as
> precepts, refuges, right:wrong, I:you, beginner:sensei, etc...
>
> Forget about all the other things you have read or been taught.
Just
> sit. That's enough. Anything else is too much...Bill!
>
>
>
>
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