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What do YOU think meditation is? Ready! Set! Go!
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A buddy of mine, Kobutsu Malone was, for some time a Zen Buddhist chaplain who visited prisons. He is the author of Prison Chaplaincy Guidelines for Zen Buddhism: A Sourcebook for Prison Chaplains, Administrators and Security Personnel. And if Bast…
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@mynameisuntz -- Conceptually, I think you are absolutely right -- it makes no sense. But perhaps you are capable of noticing as well: Where is the rest of the world, your friends, neighbors, lovers, enemies, beliefs, explanations, etc. when you sn…
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Others may disagree, but I think there may be one similarity between whatever mind-altering goes on with drugs (I'm thinking of the 'good,' wider-horizons stuff) and with spiritual practice. There are break-throughs that occur during spiritual prac…
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My experience from meditation practice is that there is honestly no difference between emotional and physical pain. None. Knowing that doesn't make me any less of a wimp ... just sayin'.
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1. There is no saying that drugs can't offer a glimpse of something profound and real (we'll set aside for the moment that such a realm can also bring up very real horrors). But the natural inference from such a compelling experience is often that i…
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PS. I was tartly informed on my blog that the whole thing was a set-up and a hoax. Personally, I don't care ... I still enjoyed it... which probably says something about my blinkered credulity.
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On my "like" bulletin board are both the Hsin-Hsin Ming and the apparently bogus CUCUMBER SAGE.
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Here is a bit of gratitude I was munching on this morning. PS. I ran into some problem above while trying to make a link. I couldn't find any delete button. A delete button would have been useful. Dual post deleted. The delete button exists. It's…
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OK ... let's try the URL
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My "avatar" is stolen from the Internet ... a small painting by an eighth grader of the Buddha. I like the colors and the fact that it feels somehow peppy to me.
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For the gourmet: Twinkies on the half-shell. For the musician: A crescendo of Twinkies. For the historian: The War of the Twinkies. For the religious: The crucifixion of the Twinkie. For the Kama Sutra: The Twinkie position. For the car manufacturer…
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^^^^^^^^ It's ... it's ... it's THE SECOND COMING!
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Well, God bless America! The place hasn't been the same without them!
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This thread is about the Buddhist idea of indifference, @music -- No one here seems indifferent to indifference, so I guess that by your lights we are none of us very good Buddhists... Thank goodness!
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@JohnG -- I have a feeling that any permeating fear may relax its grasp as you release the notion of anything that might be "next." Good hunting!
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@rivercane -- Now all that remains is.... Do it again. :) Congratulations.
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@JohnG -- Besides the superficial celebrations and optimism, I hope you will exercise a little patience. When one third of your life to date has been dedicated to a certain format, it would be surprising if there weren't some sense of loss and uncer…
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CONGRATULATIONS! I hope all goes well and that you don't take your fears as a guide. They don't usually make you swallow the gold fish until the third or fourth visit. :)
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Can you grasp the present? @nevermind -- I tried once .... but I missed. Which is not to say I can't marvel at all the chirping silliness about "living in the present."
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If you like Buddha, fine. If you find sangha compelling, fine. If Dharma dissolves you into a puddle of applauding goo, fine. And if you find all of this dumber than a bedpost, fine. Yummy and icky are not so important. What is important, if you ch…
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How could anyone learn that s/he is not a copycat without being a copycat?
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Alright, then what is the value of getting over the idea that there are credible icons? @nevermind -- What is credible/believed, exists only in the past. People live in the present. Better to live the life you are actually leading than to rely on w…
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What is the purpose of iconoclasm? To get over the notion there were credible icons in the first place... icons like "iconoclasm."
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@kashi -- You are the only way ... get used to it. :)
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Maybe it would be better to stop daydreaming about what is "unconditioned" and just cope effectively with what we've got.
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history shows therevada is the original source @kashi -- Does history make you happy? If so, then go ahead and knock yourself out. Of course, it's nice to know something about the circumstances in which anyone places him- or herself, but the 'aut…
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@kashi -- Accumulating an intellectual understanding of Zen or Buddhism may have its uses but if those uses are simply to gain intellectual understanding, then I think it would be more useful to take up knitting or skip rope. Unless I am mistaken, …
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Ok, but... How do you spot them? @Chrysalid -- If not popular, my guess is simple: Ego. If "everything is the teacher," as I think it is, then sifting through the teachers, finding a focal point, crediting a single, singular teacher or set of circ…
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My experience is that there are several different incenses used in Zen. Most are not as intrusive as the dime-store incense that is widely available. But the better it gets, the more it costs so it's often up to the individual. I buy from Shoyeido i…
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Strange to think that something that might be called "intimate" or "secret" or "precious" or "wondrous" becomes as plain as old socks when it comes out in the open. This is not to say that others may not have conniptions and deserve a studied silenc…
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@kashi -- My advice might not be what you want to hear, but here it is: Identify something -- maybe one or two -- that you are really interested in and then involve yourself in groups where you can express and enjoy that interest. If you are not in…
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@cptshrk -- If I understand the question correctly, you are asking if, simply by getting older, a peaceful and clear life might evolve. From my point of view, the answer is yes since from one Buddhist perspective, everyone is already enlightened. No…