JMJM; I'm on the other side of the world and.... Mayka . --- On Sat, 14/8/10, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 14 August, 2010, 18:32 Hi Mayka， Here is the link.. http://dharma.heartchan.org/2010-retreat/ Let me know if you have any question. Donald On 8/14/2010 10:22 AM, Maria Lopez wrote: JMJM; To me the most beneficial from a retreat is the practicing in togetherness with other people. All sense of separateness dissapears during a retreat. I'm intrigue about the cleanse of the Chi. Wouldn't mind to attend this retreat you are announcing. Mayka --- On Sat, 14/8/10, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 14 August, 2010, 17:49 Dear Mayka, Thank you for your sharing. Yet, as you know, nothing is permanent, good or bad. It is all cause and effect. Please let me elaborate on your "the energy of the practice" for the forum. Over the labor day weekend, we will have a three day retreat in Saratoga, CA. Some of our practitioners likes the talk. Some of our practitioners likes the warmth of getting together. Some of our practitioners likes the sharing. But all in all, retreat in our school is really about chi-based cleansing. The power of an enlightened Master transmits the power of longevity, the power of wisdom and the power loving kindness through his disciples. This retreat of ours is the first time that we have three ordained teachers participating. It will benefit all practitioners in a formless way. By practitioner, I mean those who meditates daily. Not studying daily. Not joking around daily. But "sit down, shut up, stop thinking" daily. When our hearts are pure, we resonate. JMJM On 8/14/2010 2:11 AM, Maria Lopez wrote: JMJM; If I am so upset and somehow angry at the fact that I couldn't make it to TNH events in the UK is because I am unable to keep the discipline of daily sitting down. Those retreats are very helpful and supportive towards recharging the energy of the practice. I have to do everything in this path on my own and by internet...So Sad!!!! Mayka --- On Sat, 14/8/10, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 14 August, 2010, 4:40 Wow Mayka. Thank you. As my Master would say, we are all forms generated by the same singular life force of the universe. We are all equal, the same and one with the One. Whatever feelings we have about this form of ours are temporary, relative and unrelated to the One. When we are able to carry the calmness we cultivated during meditation into our daily lives, this calmness shall detach our self-nature from all emotions. To some of us this may sound difficult. Yet, I have witnessed that it can be achieved if we meditate, for one hour daily at same time and same place, with a chi based method as taught by our school. Chan is an experience based on meditation. Unless we meditate, it would be hard for us to surpass our habits, i.e. physical habits, mental habits, and spiritual habits. JM On 8/13/2010 1:14 AM, Maria Lopez wrote: In addition something important and honoring our JMJM and his tradition: Let's love oneselves in syncronitation with the universe. --- On Fri, 13/8/10, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 13 August, 2010, 9:02 Ari: You say: "Maybe I am too harsh in my practice. I know I have no love for mysellf and am harsh on myself almost all the time. I'm trying to work on loving myself, because I can't love anyone else until I have love for myself." In my personal opinion This statement you've made it makes you by itself the perfect asset to approach the Buddha Teachings. Not many people have this realization about themselves and yet the real root of our suffering is the lack of love towards oneselves. There is also often a misunderstanding about this teaching of loving oneselves or as Bill would more or less say: "Put the mask of oxygene first in you and once you're safe help others do it the same" This is far of being a selfish statement, on the contrary is a very compassionate statement for as long as one has realiced the consecuences and impact whatever is in us has over oneselves, all our surroundings and the whole universe. When a person is unhappy makes every one around her/him also unhappy. When a person is happy it happens the same. So here the love towards oneselves is based in the healthy and altruistic principle of "I release the suffering in me so I can realease the suffering all around me". Completely agree with you and yes, loving oneselves is the hardest, difficult thing to do. What it makes difficult this task is that in order to love oneselves we have to work extremely hard on it. We have to face what is in us and that not always is easy. In fact we ideally need a Teacher in order of doing so as the ego gets on the way and will find millions ways of deceiving us.... Actions of compassion in all directions will help a lot. I've found compassion actions be like the main vitamin supplement for keeping me truly alive. Welcome to the real dharma of the Buddha. Mayka --- On Thu, 12/8/10, Ari <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ari <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] EGO To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 12 August, 2010, 16:03 Ari: Poor thing. Sorry to hear about such an horrific dream. I wonder if it means that you are going under an intense change in your life. Not always the meaning of unpleasant dreams is negative and sometimes they mean well on the contrary as Bill was pointing out in his mail. Have you ever to face your own dream while dreaming?. If you could do that whatever is there will be resolved during the dream. I also agree with Anthony advice about be relax and very kind to yourself while practicing. Slowly, slowly. No rush. No expetations. We go nowhere as we are already arrived in the here and the now, the chopper is chopped!. A hug Mayka Thank you, Makya. No changes in my life. Same old boring stuff. My husband also has had nightmares, and after finding this out, I no longer give it much energy. I may have been thinking of the tornado and how the neighbor family was "chopped up". Maybe I am too harsh in my practice. I know I have no love for mysellf and am harsh on myself almost all the time. I'm trying to work on loving myself, because I can't love anyone else until I have love for myself. Thank you for your kindly post and your hug :-) Best, Ari --- On Tue, 10/8/10, Ari <aelindemann@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: Ari <aelindemann@ yahoo.com> Subject: [Zen] EGO To: zen_fo...@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Tuesday, 10 August, 2010, 20:45 Dear all, Recently I went to a spiritual retreat, and decided to intensify my meditation practice and other aspects of having a mindful life. I was then beset by one of the worst nightmares I've ever had, where I was being chopped to bits by a hacksaw. The last line in the nightmare was "and it's not a dream this time" at which I woke up, to, indeed find that it was a dream. There is nothing so drastic in my personal life. My personal life is pretty mundane with not many conflicts at the moment. I wonder if Ego sent me the dream, to keep me from intensifying my practice? There have been other times in the past where I would get nightmares right after I had determined to intensify my practice. ANY opinions, welcome. I'm going to go about my meditation, and not let the dream freak me out, but really, would not like to have another one! Best, Ari -- Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com http://www.heartchan.org -- Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com http://www.heartchan.org -- Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com http://www.heartchan.org
