I agree 100% with this pudgala2 post. Just HERE! Just NOW! Just THIS!
..Bill! --- In [email protected], "pudgala2" <pudgala2@...> wrote: > > > > > Zen Isthe psychology of the immediate momentNOW! > Immediate means not mediated. Egos thrive in mediated > experience on the thrills and threats of sentient beings* (beliefs, > opinions, attitudes, etc.). Egos can never be immediate since > they obsessively rehearse past emotional experiences that > maintain the artificial sense of self importance. > > When the ego experiences a threat to its sense of self importance > it generates suffering in the mind. If the suffering is great enough > it will drive the mind to seek an end to this suffering or breakdown > into egotistical blaming, shaming, or simply fall apart. > > If the mind with the suffering ego is fortunate it will come upon > the Truth of Suffering, enter the BuddhaDharma, and experience > a breakthrough. Since ego is artificial (false) Truth dissolves it. > Truth does not know about egos just as light does not know about > darkness. Truth is already in the mind like an embryo in an egg. > > Zazen is the nest for the awakening mind simply resting and > watching very still. Without doing, mind grows brighter and > brighter dissipating the self agitating ego until Mind is perfectly > still. > > NOW there are no moving experiencestime has fallen apart. > On the Zazen Throne of the Buddhas sits a radiant expression of light. > Zen Masters move their tongues and their bodies from this Mind > that is perfectly still. > > pudgala2 > > *And who are these sentient beings, potential within our minds? > ~Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch > <http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bb/bb29.htm> > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
