ED; What kind of practice do you engage into to neutralise rationalisation and passive aggression? And as for me I've already said in previous posts of just to stay with whatever arises in me. If what arises would be anger and aversion then I acknowledge, recognise that that is there and keep breathing in awareness. If that is a perceptions that someone else is having about me, depends upon the moment I may smile at it or simply ignore it as that is not myself but the stuff of the one who has pointed out. Mayka --- On Sat, 16/4/11, ED <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] The Three Dimensions of Release To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 16 April, 2011, 16:55 > As they are not ready they become arrogant individualistic pricks cold as > ice. Mayka, What Zen practice do you engage in to neutralize this strong feeling of anger and aversion you experience; and embrace the arrogant, cold, individualistic pricks with a warm heart, thereby helping them heal their wounds? Could these arrogant, cold, individualistic pricks actually be your teachers, who show you that your warm heart need not be independent of ambiance, and thereby furnish you with an opportunity to maintain the warmth of your heart, regardless? --ED --- In [email protected], Maria Lopez <flordeloto@...> wrote: > > To me in the real essence of zen any adjectives are out of place. To me zen > is the ultimate step one does. Many people embrace zen without been ready > for it. > As they are not ready they become arrogant individualistic pricks cold as > ice. > Even when zen is something available to everyone the same, more and more my > imimpressionith it is that it's only suitable and of real benefit for a > minority of people who have already in them a sense of non separation, unity, > universal oneness and therefore a heart. > Differently, agree with you that we need from other sources in your case the > Jhanas in my case TNH zen buddhism and and the image created in my mind as a > model of the heart in Jesuschrist beyond any religious institution. > Zen doesn't lack of anything but we do. > Mayka
