Steve: There is a mixture of students from all over the world which of course includes Vietnamese. So the Ven gives away the teachings according to the buddhist background or zen those students may have to make himself dharma better understood and put into practice. During the long retreat the names of the Buddha were reciting in the evening after sitting down. On my own I don't usually repeat the names of the Buddha as I'm not very much familiar with this kind of practice. Mayka --- On Tue, 1/3/11, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote:
From: SteveW <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] News: Mindfulness and death -- who wins? To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 1 March, 2011, 19:04 --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > Hi Steve; >  > Yes I have that book. It's a great book. Really good.  It was amongst > the books I had in my first two years. The following to that is: > "Understanding Our Mind". I got this last one during a long retreat and the > Ven Master TNH signed on it. Sister Chang Khong who is the directorate from > the Plum Village Monastery told us that the Master stayed with each book > before he signed a little bit and passed onto them his mind to mind dharma. > It pleased me to hear that. Nonetheless I never went to much into it > in depth as I found this last book rather complicated and think that needs > from the Master to be there and ask him questions continuously arising in me > every time I tried to get through it. Second book mentioned was handed onto > me by a many years experienced nun in the practice . So sorry to say about > myself that I haven't honoured much so far the trust given and still I'm > in "The heart of the Buddha Teachings" which is fine by me. No > rush. >  > Mayka >  > Yes, no rush. Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. I happen to like Vietnamese Thien (Zen), as it is actually what I do. In Vietnam they combine Zen with Pureland practice. TNH just emphasizes Zen for his Western students, but in Vietnam they couple that with Buddhanusmriti. I refer you to the foot-note on page 76 of The Heart Of The Buddha's Teaching. I said that this is what I do, but really I am not doing it. Who is reciting the Buddha-Name? Steve > > >
