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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IK735YHVtA http://zenhabits.net/ I believe you must simply be failing to understand my words here. You've never seen US culture trivialize zen? http://cherrycrime26.hubpages.com/hub/Meditation-Techniques-To-Manifest-Money http://www.zenprofits.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Centered-Transform-Your-Weeks-Meditation/dp/1401935869 Oh well, Chris Thanks, --Chris [email protected] +1-301-270-6524 On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > I never heard such stuff. Dunno where you may be coming from. > > It may be just a geographic or cultural proclivity, or merely and > importantly personal. > > I hope you and your chosen teacher will take these things up, if they are > important in (Zen) practice. > > Best, > > --Joe > > > Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: > > > > I wasn't really referring to the case when people with a lot of aware > > experiences of buddha nature trivialize it - that seems like a > non-problem > > to me. > > > > I was referring to the tendency of [my, i.e. US] culture to trivialize > > everything, especially stuff from other traditions, e.g. > > http://zeninamoment.com/ or http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/list/1 > > http://bigmind.org/genpo-roshi > > > > People want to think that there is some simple fix that they can acquire, > > rather than that there is no problem, and nothing to fix but their own > > tendencies to blindness, irritation and wanting stuff, which is extremely > > non-trivial to lay down, and that the process of laying down these > > tendencies is so profoundly satisfying that one can't find it trivial; it > > is as trivial as singing in the rain while feeling happy. > > > > In my experience, people in the US are apt to paper over the most > profound > > moments with silly thin ideas, turning away from the suchness we have a > > chance to share in and turning towards some paper-thing abstraction. > > > > Do I think that substituting "seeing God" or "seeing the face of God" > might > > help someone understand "Just This!" or "experience Buddha nature"? I > find > > it likely enough to be worth discussing. > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
