JMJM: The mind is not separated from the body. One of the practical meaning of sitting down is to put together mind and body. The awareness of the in and out breathing acts as our anchor, our guard, our guide, our teacher, our friend...When a sensation, thought or whatever arises it's very easy to see through the breath the impact that does has over the body. A person who observe the mind separated from the body is not doing the practice of zen correctly. To some of us undisciplined practicioners. with terrible habbit energies that pull us continuosly away from the buddha nature and finding in this way extremely hard the sitting down alone, we are the best to say that when we manage the discipline of that sitting down. Taming in the process all that negative energies, etc...there is after a while holding there a natural arising of compasion, a natural very kind, caring, loving heart. If the practice of sitting down doesn't bring the universal heart, syncronitation with all life, the universe..., I would say that the sitting down wasn't a real zen sitting down. Thanks for bell posting. Mayka
--- On Fri, 8/10/10, Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <chan.j...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <chan.j...@gmail.com> Subject: [Zen] What Mind To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, zenliv...@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, 8 October, 2010, 17:35 Good morning to ALL, Yesterday's class, we talked about what mind to observe. Our Teacher taught us, detach from all the forms, sync with Buddha's heart. But what do we do, how do we begin? We begin by constantly observing our mind at every moment. Is it active? differentiating? blaming? criticizing? looking for reasons? finding answers? confused? worried? etc. If yes, then we are lost in forms. If our mind is deep into any of the above states, then we are unaware how our body feels, unaware the needs of others, disconnected from the wisdom of the universe, disrupted the flow of the universal life force, shut the door for our heart to shine. In this state, our body, heart and spirit are no longer one. In this state, we are living with our mind, which is filled with incomplete knowledge and interpretive experience. And this mind darkened the power of our heart. Hindered our power to harmonize, fulfill and satisfied. A liberated life is based on having a harmonious heart first, then using the mind only as a tool to execute. And not the other way around. We can make our world more harmonious. Sit down please. :-) JMJM -- Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com http://www.heartchan.org
