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Sometimes I think that an honest kindness involves little more than paying attention to circumstances, acting accordingly.. Maybe that's the only time there is kindness without a hook. Like one hand helping another automatically.
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Let us, be honest...While we all enjoy Buddhism, practice it and enjoy it, there are a few things that bother us. What would they be? I am still thinking about my dislikes. Enjoy? This isn't a day trip. This .. I am still thinking about my …
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It is a challenge to practice the Buddha way even with the support of a Sangha, because our general culture is so geared to not being mindful or having any degree of sense restraint. Doing it alone while immersed in that culture is a lot tougher. L…
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Here is a discussion thread on Shimano and the general issues raised that has been going since November 2009..... http://www.zenforuminternational.org/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=3584 It covers pretty much every angle and emotion.... _/\_.
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Always liked Hedges' odd combo of gawd-awful worldly pessimism, and defense of traditional faith against Godless heathens. Virtue... It was the dogged pursuit of "bright virtue " that brought Bankei to "Unborn Zen".. if I recall correctly. I li…
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Hi AMH. To someone you are unaware... clueless.. off... I am frequently unaware. ..and when there is awareness.. it isn't reflexive.. it (pardon the online Buddhist cliche) just is, and isn't holding this up against that.
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Hi, I am having trouble reading because I am under a lot of stress with hearing psychotic voices. Is there any basic guidance to reach jhana? I am so restless I don't know how I can read links, but we can try. I want to reach jhana to purify my p…
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One of the best bits of advice I ever got regarding awareness of breath was "Don't become a unicorn!". Get the image of fixating on the breath ?... and struggling to sustain "concentration"? The breath is there, the whole body is there, the flo…
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That is good. released emotion . Unobstructed body and mind is very nice when sitting. Still sometimes, depending on what is going on in life, even the most experienced meditator will just have sit with/as being bunged up. There is freedom in ju…
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Is whining the same as getting cranky? @RichardH -- This is the kind of question I would refer to the Jesuits and other dissectors of profound subtlety. On a guess, I would say that no reputable whine exists without a solid infusion of crankiness. B…
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Is whining the same as getting cranky?
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Zen dilettantism is unsatisfying.
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I hold a precept / vow to abstain from anger as part of the '10 Good Precepts' / '10 wholesome actions.' The other day I could feel anger rising inside me (because of someones behaviour) .....and each time I felt the anger arising, I would do my bes…
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For the record, noted scholar Karel Werner said that no Indian school of thought has ever regarded the human soul or the carrier of human personal identity as a permeant substance. So atman, in the sense of the absolute, is ruled out as a transmigr…
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I hold a precept / vow to abstain from anger as part of the '10 Good Precepts' / '10 wholesome actions.' The other day I could feel anger rising inside me (because of someones behaviour) .....and each time I felt the anger arising, I would do my bes…
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I think the answer to your question is a yes and a no. In other words, an answer that is actually clear and straightforward is seen by many as nonsensical. But the same answer, as seen by a master, as very clear. The kill the cat story is a good…
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It is dependent on words and speech... conceptualizing nature. "Right understanding" is just as important in Zen Buddhism.... wrong understanding> right understanding> practice not dependent on understanding. We can't skip the first two o…
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I'm listening to the heart sutra liturgy of my sangha.. Form is empty.. But in my actual life I am addicted to coffee I like massages I like to have fresh air. The question is NOT that I feel guilty having these pleasures. But in the coffee cont…
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@I_AM_THAT. If you are talking about absorptions... then you know that absorptions are discrete states-among-states and are impermanent, not-self, and dukkha. If you are talking about absorptions in the sense of the Godhead of "pure consciousnes…
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In this plane of existence there is no heaven or hell... just manifestations of mind. Maybe other planes of existence are manifestations of mind too? In the other planes there is no mind only consciousness... Well that opens a can of very deb…
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In this plane of existence there is no heaven or hell... just manifestations of mind. Maybe other planes of existence are manifestations of mind too?
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HHmmm. Such an educating thread. Makes me wonder how young I must of been to be attracted to Zen. Zen on this thread so far seems to be about vacuous statements, a lack of empathy, judgementalism of others, adversarial behaviour and the apparent be…
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vacuous, meaningless pseudo-deep zen~ish-statements. they really just make you look like an ass..... Speaking as an ass, I take offence to this. The pong of "Zen" on this thread does not rise to genuine ass-ness.. IMhO. :D
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Heaven and Hell "co-arise".. like up and down. If, for a while, life is going "my way" and "I" am being affirmed, and that is attached to and invested in.. "I" am in Heaven. Then when things turn and are not going my way, and "I" am being denied.. …
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someone who is more tempted by the superficial, material transitory things in life, and someone who is not discerning as to behaving in an upright moral manner. . ... :wave: I'm tryin ..
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But, it isn't just my opinion that aversion to bowing, and ritual..especially devotional ritual, is common among new people, and some long-time Buddhists too. Yes, that's been my experience too. But on the other hand should we bow merely becau…
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The Sanghas I have practiced with are fine, ordinary sanghas.... Theravadin (forest sangha traditions) 20+ years. Zen (Son) about 7 years, and several others for lesser periods, including Kwan Um, recently. My time with the Lay Forest Sangha invo…
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Not just physically but in a lot of ways. That's all I meant by "deep bows". I guess that I was asking about all those other ways. I know what a deep bow is physically. But anyway, that was only to help clarify the more curious claim of yours, t…
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... But I can talk some sense.. I've offered you an opportunity. :) Sorry, I missed your question in the other stuff. "Deeply bowing" just means being before a teacher and deeply bowing.. on your knees.. with your forehead down to the floor..…
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No not treasured... :D .. No ill will either... but, sorry no respect. maybe if we met in person.. but no. bye.
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Just take care of your own practice . I doubt you would carry on like this in sangha in front of a teacher.. This is the bane of Buddhist fora. It is why I quit modding elsewhere.. because there was always another self-ordained teacher taking …
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abu.. disengage from me. get it? just disengage. illuminate someone else. ;) Perhaps you could try disengaging from your real problem ? Good luck. Just take care of your own practice . I doubt you would carry on like this in sangha in f…
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abu.. disengage from me. get it? just disengage. illuminate someone else. ;)
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This seems to be the most quoted Sutta online. That popularity could reflect a lot of things.. some maybe not so noble. It can be a perfect cover for being stuck in "I know".. and being averse to deeply bowing. You mean as opposed to imagining one…
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Here is small entry from my studio journal about beauty.. http://richardhermanart.blogspot.ca/2008/07/idea-of-divine-beauty.html Beauty isn't merely arbitrary....
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...maybe iv gotta look a bit closer at what i want... That sounds about right. Letting go of the world can mean very different things. Seeing the world as "a meaningless game" is a particular head-space. .. a state of mind... another condition t…
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If we are reluctant to trust the teacher, how do we overcome this? If we were to "just do it", it seems too dangerous. If we were to think about it, we can always find flaws. I guess the best thing would be to observe the teacher for a while. But wh…
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"Trust, but Verify" "Therefore, did we say, Kalamas, what was said thus, 'Come Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axi…
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This seems to be the most quoted Sutta online. That popularity could reflect a lot of things.. some maybe not so noble. It can be a perfect cover for being stuck in "I know".. and being averse to deeply bowing. You mean as opposed to imagining one…
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"Trust, but Verify" "Therefore, did we say, Kalamas, what was said thus, 'Come Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axi…
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Hindu Moksha is being freed or released from the notion of egoity, it is like breaking the vase so that the space inside and the space outside are no longer differentiated, there is only all-pervasive Presence like air. There is just the oceanic Bra…
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Yes there is emptiness go back to your teacher. go.. Emptiness is just the way things are. I am sorry you cannot see that, Richard. Best wishes, Abu You didn't read my post. It went right past. Take my post (anonymously) to your teacher and …
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Yes there is emptiness go back to your teacher. go..
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Emptiness is just half of it. There is no thing or non-thing called "Emptiness", there is only Emptiness/Form. The view of 'Emptiness" as "The" Absolute (akin to the "causeless cause" ) is off the mark. Emptiness is not other than Form, Form is…
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I think it is but the sentiment is suffering. We think 'how dare anyone criticize or disturb my sacred meditation or disagree/criticize or one upmanship' The Holiness (deep value) of Buddha Dharma is also emptiness/form. Being emptiness/form do…
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I would like to know what 'your' concept is.. Just be Ordinary.... Anything but ordinary... "ordinary" in the ordinary sense.. is immersion, without a clue, in a storyline with "me" as the actor. Where every action... even "zen" "just doing" is …
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I bet on the earth arriving to meet its end just fine, without us. ...or maybe with some small vole-like descendant of us who is preoccupied with hiding from the 40ft carnivorous gastropods. ...or something.
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And too, no kidding around or Buddhist flim-flam: If something is missing and you don't know what it is, is anything missing? No... all you know is that something ain't right... and in your heart of hearts you know it is time to investigate. O…