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Zen with Zen.....? I combine Theravada with Mahayana.... Works ok for me.... ;) Surely combining Theravada with Mahayana would be like combining Atheism and Theism, in the same way you can't both believe in God and not believe in God you can not c…
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Boredom is just our inability to look at something closely enough. Funnily enough, in a retreat, what we call Dharma, is at at work, something to avoid at all costs. The only difference between a retreat & work is you deciding that there …
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While testing out some modifications to our kayak today a mute swan landed and circumnavigated us a dozen times. With each circle it drew closer until it was grazing the side of the kayak like a cat wanting to be couched. Beautiful but unnerving whi…
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Apparently he'd just spend one or two weeks there in a year.
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@rivercane @Karasti I grew up with archery. As a latch key kid in an upscale (read uptight) community I'd open a window wide and stand on a chair back in the back of the living room where no one could see me, to fire at my teddy bear hidden in the b…
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@Jeffrey This may not apply to you for not only is it Zen (not your practise) but you often speak of a difficult mental condition that I am certainly not qualified to address.. But in my practise.... We do not seek any specific (eg. tranquil) condi…
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@Karasti Thanks for the warning. We have years of experience kayaking in some pretty hairy sections of exposed coast which has really taught us how fragile life is out there. My partner has just piped up that she doesn't care how dangerous it is as …
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@robot Yes a great area. I think I still have photos of my daughter surrounded by skeletons in a burial cave that we took refuge in during a storm off the North end of Nootka Island. My most interesting experience with a fishing camp in Haida Gwai…
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Yeah but you might of had zafu's taller than these stories.
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@zenmyste My first "wildness" retreat occured when the monastery I was staying in, kicked out all the lay residents for 3 weeks to give their Guest dept (& the rest of the monks) a rest. I spent my time in retreat at high alititude on a Northern…
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@invinciple_summer The Chief! That's almost a 2000 ft high cliff of granite. Lot's of studio's have included that in action flicks. Did you climb the backside? & if so how long does it take. I've done Haida Gwaii a number of times and it's so…
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@betaboy Enlightenment and a being who is enlightened IS the ceasing from evil, doing only good & the purifying of the heart. What you call the privilege of an enlightened person, most meditaters would say is the manifestation of a worldly im…
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Aaauuuuggghhhh! Oh you mean right in the first line of Genkaku's post? Well, if your going to get accurate... :facepalm:
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@how, you're probably right that @genkaku does shikantaza practice, but to say "no one practices meditation FOR something else" covers a lot more ground than that. I did a shikantaza-style practice for years, and it wasn't effective for me. For th…
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< fivebells said: » show previous quotes how said: Maybe I'm being dim here but I thought the OP was just talking about not feeding a hope or aspiration in formal meditation. There was no mention of what should or should not bring us to practise.…
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Maybe I'm being dim here but I thought the OP was just talking about not feeding a hope or aspiration in formal meditation. There was no mention of what should or should not bring us to practise.
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@Lobster Congrats on your promotion, although it doesn't seem fair that mammals get the distinctiveness of stream entry whereas crustaceans just get what? the same old?
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@Citta I have not followed what is unfolding on that other site by it makes me wonder.. Each of the spokes on that wheel are preceded by a"right or complete". This is to discern the difference between a powerful understanding and the "right" unders…
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We are ALL teachers AND students. The only limit is thinking one is better than the other. Most of the damaging wake behind Trumpa today is carried by those still not willing to allow that all of us have always been both.
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Good luck on getting Zen meditation to do anything for anyone while transcending subject & object.
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@searching_samsara If you fall in love with the road, you will forget the destination Aaahhha, That explains those folks I meet on the path going in the opposite direction!
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My refuge is the abandoning of self before Buddha, Dharma & Sangha.
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Soto & Rinzai schools are seldom really as polarized as literature often presents and many teachers partake of aspects of both Soto & Rinzai. But what does this combining have to do with finding a balance in your own home practise?
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@zenmyste I left this thread alone for some reason but finally read it because of the millage it was getting. I few thoughts. I think much of the difficulty in asking what the Buddha got or attained with enlightenment is that it presupposes that t…
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An old story of what helps a wandering Buddhist mendicant face a wild forest beast, comes to mind and might actually be a teaching of how to address a confrontation. Empathy..........Putting yourself in anothers position. Sympathy........Feeling wh…
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Sorry @Karasti My Bad! Totally different post & poster. That should have been @twaitsfan
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I do not know the cause of your lethargy! But.. My lethargy, like many others I've met, has always ended up being something I was unable to fully face. My route through it has always depended on my eventual willingness to surrender to, accept or…
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@Karasti Are you really railing against our evolutionary survival teachings. It seems that pain is simply our body teaching us what is harmfull. It makes sense that in a simple electrical warning system, the more harmfull the circumstance, the more …
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Anyone manifesting selflessness.
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Backing down or speaking up is best screened through the Buddhist question of.... what is ceasing from evil, doing only good & purifying your heart. or you can ask yourself which is a response of the self & which is of selflessness. …
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I don't intentionally kill bugs to protect aesthetic plants but might do so for my food plants. So far discouragement has worked well enough to not require such killing. My reasoning is that if I let my veggies die then someone else will just end u…
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This is something that I fear for myself.
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So, what do you all think about such as these? This never arises in my practise. The only place this arises for Zennists is as a conversational rebutal to the denial of reincarnation. Personally , I do not yet understand why ones directed rebirth…
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I love that this guy is apparently pregnant with the karmic potential.
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I don't disagree with the above but only say that this zafu pilot deliberately seeks neither the rejoicing or the despairing with any phenomena. One's attention to a Zen meditative practise will see either, arising or falling away, but that same pr…