Very astute Spidey, but how could one not react a bit sarcastically with all the diatribes that seem to erupt here regularly. Often with you in the middle of them I notice.. Hmm
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 8:35 am, [email protected] wrote: > There are 3 messages in this issue. > > Topics in this digest: > > 1. Paradox or Type A Personalities? > From: "spider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2. Breath Counting Zazen > From: "lostpsychonaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 3. Re: Zen a path of paradox > From: "Francisco Garcia Scherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:59:34 -0400 > From: "spider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Paradox or Type A Personalities? > > From: "David Newman" One paradox that regularly fascinates me is how a > certain Zen group is the most argumentitive group I've seen on yahoo > groups.>> > > Look at your own sarcastic contribution and wonder no more. You get out > of > it what you put into it. > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:02:37 -0000 > From: "lostpsychonaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Breath Counting Zazen > > "THAT which makes the universe tick...Is THAT which makes us > breathe...". This is the value of watching the unmanipulated breath. > Through the breath we can touch the tides of the Eternal Tao. Call it > God or Unfathomable Emptiness or ... any way u prefer, there is a > rhythm in it.There is rhythm and tide in all phenomena.If we are able > to let go of our habits of manipulating everything and just allow the > breathing to be fully natural...then our body and mind feel like going > to the shore and seeing the ocean for the first time, we see and touch > the edge of this not-only-material ocean, and we can feel the waves > and get intimate with its true nature.In early days of our Western > culture,breath was considered our very spirit, as our > words "inspiration" and "expiration" show clearly, or take the Divine > inspiration in the Christian Old Testament. God (if you will) breathes > in us, or as my master used to say "Take up the noble practice of > breathing Mu - letting Mu breathe Mu - . Then the old house collapses, > and you are free to know the ancient joy of the vast and fathomless > Dharma." > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:47:56 -0000 > From: "Francisco Garcia Scherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Zen a path of paradox > > > I agree. Sometimes, it seems to me that life is a koan. > > --- In [email protected], "lostpsychonaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Day and night, summer and winter, life and death... nature itself is >> paradox and Zen the simple mirror reflection of life. Remain >> choiceless, and you will remain true.Relax and let go into the way >> things really are. Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to >> find. > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's not the height of the waves but the motion of the ocean.. " - Melville Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> 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/
