Edgar; A real four legs animal or something else? Mayka --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Edgar Owen <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 23:08 I feed a fox every day at my door.... He should be here soon.... Edgar On Sep 1, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Anthony Wu wrote: Mayka, Do you give food to foxes? You must, because you may run into Bill or me. Anthony --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Maria Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 11:39 PM Bill; Can you give a description and give an example of the way you incorporate Buddha Mind in your daily active life? Is it Buddha Mind applied in daily activities the same as mindfulness?. This is to verify if are the same thing or there is something different. My practice is similar to yours with the difference that sitting down or zazen sessions lack of your daily discipline and there are days still of zero sitting down. I make up a bit with it with the applicationof mindfulness in different activities during the day such as walking in the park, giving food to the birds once a week after collecting hard bread for them. Birds are very grateful for that specially in winter time. While awakening in the morning, leaving my bed, going to the bath, brushing my teeth, shower and all the rest of toilette time including the one of evacuating. I've also train myself in the use reminders such as the ring of phone. As soon as I hear the first ring Instead of picking it up immediately I stop and use my conscious breathing and pick up the phone at the third ring. Other bell reminder are the traffic lights. As soon as I see red it brings me back to my conscious breathing till it changes to green...etc. Mayka --- On Thu, 1/9/11, Bill! <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill! <[email protected]> Subject: [Zen] Re: Mahayana To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 1 September, 2011, 2:42 JMJM, I do consider zen my practice. I acknowledge that most people classify it as a subset/sect of Mahayana Buddhism, but I do not consider zen a subset of or co-dependent on Buddhism. In fact I consider zen the core Buddhism was built around - like a cultural-specific presetation layer. I can't speak for those that consider themselves Mahayana Buddhists, but my practice consists of shikantaza (clear-mind meditation) which is usually associated with zazen (seated meditation) but can be practiced any where at any time under any conditions. I sometimes refer to that state of clear-mind (or no-mind) as 'Buddha Mind'. My personal practice is to incorporate Buddha Mind more and more into my daily life. The core teaching of my zen practice is 'Just THIS!. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Jue Miao Jing Ming - 覺妙精明 <chan.jmjm@...> wrote: > > Dear Forum, > > Do you consider "Zen/zen/your practice" a Mahayana practice? If so, how > does Mahayana actually practice? What is its core teaching? > > Thank you in advance, jm > > -- > Learn the Basics of Chan Meditation... > http://www.chan-meditation.org > Chan in everyday life... > http://www.chanliving.org > To be enlightened in this life... > http://www.heartchan.org > To save our world... > http://www.universal-oneness.org >
