Hi Anthony,
Thank you for your support. Actually Dr. Shin Lin, Vice Principal of
UCI has already prove the existence of chi, its energy points and chi
channels.
JM
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com
http://www.heartchan.org
On 10/20/2010 3:02 PM, Anthony Wu wrote:
Mike,
I am coming to the defence of JMJM. 'Chi' is not spirit. It is very
much physical, though the mechanism has yet to be discovered by science.
Anthony
--- On *Wed, 20/10/10, mike brown /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: mike brown <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Zen] Questions, questions, question
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 20 October, 2010, 8:59 AM
JMJM,
Just like to state that I didn't get that info from the Larry King
programme! You're right about the need to still "sit through",
however to know that we are somehow changing our brain/thoughts
for the positive in a concrete, physiological way frees us from a
lot of the esoteric and ceremonial nonsense that Zen is clouded in
(no offence meant, but 'spirit' and 'chi' could be put into that
category).
Mike
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*From:* Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Wed, 20 October, 2010 9:43:33
*Subject:* Re: [Zen] Questions, questions, question
Yes, as per Larry King program, about 2-3 weeks ago, a bunch of
scientists did say that our brain can be changed.
Yet even if we accept this discovery, we still need to "sit through".
Knowing any of this does not help us with any short cut.
Words are forms. Words are in a domain separate from the domain
of energy and spirit.
:-)
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
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On 10/19/2010 5:23 PM, mike brown wrote:
ED, Bill, Mayka et al,
If I can just jump in here. There is scientific data to suggest
that the brain has a kind of plasticity and so can be
neurologically changed according to how it is used. I think this
is should hold a huge interest for those of us interested in
zen/meditation. Learning to pay attention to the moment and
letting go of negative thoughts can be seen as a 'skill' just
like learning a language or playing the piano. If one
incorporates sitting into their daily lives it'd be possible to
change the physiology of the brain to better respond to
internal/external stimuli with happier results. Zen, as an art of
living, could then jettison all the religious mumbo-jumbo that
it's wrapped up in now.
Mike
