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Re: Socialist ? Or Communist? Or somewhere in between ?

Shoshin1

Re: I'm looking for some Zen instruction

I'm looking for some Zen instruction

Lesson number one....

Shoshin1

Re: Oneness, Satsang and keeping Quiet

I could say ...and provide citations..that not only is the idea of Oneness not taught in Buddhism it is actively denied..
Which doesn’t really help. Because there are those who are helped by the idea of Oneness to be more compassionate, more awakened beings.
More in fact like Buddhism says they should strive to be..
There is the Buddhist idea of skillful means. Sometimes skillful means have to be smuggled past the Dharma police..🤫

Choephal

Re: Socialist ? Or Communist? Or somewhere in between ?

Two things my parents taught me I should not talk about:
1. Religion
2. Politics
......

Bunks

Re: I'm looking for some Zen instruction

@Bunks said:
1. Face a wall
2. Sit down
3. Close your eyes
4. Repeat 2 and 3 for four hours

Wot no wall? No Face, no can sit? Eyes open? Know repeats?

I no it! Wrong again ... back to One. I iz wall?

lobster

Re: I'm looking for some Zen instruction

@コチシカ said:
Search doesn't work!

Also.... I'm looking for some Zen instruction... any advices? I feel like the Shambhala course has pretty much gotten a bit stuck and I'm one of those Dhamma-geeks. Unless Dhamma-geekiness is the wrong stepping stone to then leap into Zen. Like Linji once had to hear...

"When will all this coming and going come to an end?" (Quoting from my memory..)