ED; Do you think so?. I used this method for various years and seemed to work particularly during retreats. Away from retreats and after a while I have to admit as far as my personal experience concerns no methods have worked out for me so far as emotions concerns. When I feel bad not only I feel bad but also have the necessity to share with other fellows human beings that I'm feeling bad. I don't manage to get adjusted to this buddhisht-zen holiness where everybody seem to have all emotions under control. We are what we are and thinking to change oneselves is the biggest illusion I've ever heard from all. In fact, Can a rose change it's nature of being a rose and became a carnation?. Eventually we always come back to where we were. Nothing change. There is no walk though it looks like as if it were. I haven't learnt anything. I know nothing. Mayka --- On Thu, 7/4/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Why bother with Zazen? Better Orgyhouse To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 7 April, 2011, 16:05 Mayka, if you are mentally naming it, you are using your rational mind. -ED --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > Hi Siska: By the term "acknowledging" means to be aware of what is happening there. For instance: If you have a headache you mentally name: "headache". By the only acknowledgement of the headache many other sensations, impact of the headache in your whole body and body language will come into awareness through it. A much short example: 1- I'm drinking tea (I'm drinking tea in an automatic way. There has not been an acknowledgement in the action. The head is distracted somewhere else away from the tea I'm drinking). 2- I know I'm drinking tea. ( I have acknowledged drinking tea. I know what I'm doing. My head is not distracted from the action of drinking tea) Important not to exchange labelling for acknoledgement. Labelling is mental exercise while acknowledgement goes with the motion of the present moment continuosly traveling and changing . Mayka
