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genkaku Veteran
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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: Clock watching
In group settings, there are three bells to begin a Zen sit and one to end it... or anyway that's been my experience. I do think that sitting periods should be structured ... don't sit longer and don… (View Post)
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Re: Do you feel pleasant feeling in your meditation?
Pardon the repetition but.... A friend and I used to meet once a week to practice zazen (Zen meditation) for an hour or so and then go out to dinner. We had quit the same Zen center at about the same… (View Post)
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Re: No hope in Buddhism?
I once asked my Zen teacher, Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi, one-time abbot of Ryutaku Monastery in Japan, what role belief and hope had in a Zen practice. His reply rings true to me. What he said was, "F… (View Post)2 -
Re: Being present at difficult state of mind
My take is that if meditation's role is simply to feel better or feel worse, we could all just take a pill and have done with it. But if subtracting the bad stuff and adding the good stuff hasn't wor… (View Post)
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missonary converted by tribe he was sent to convert
This is not new, but it was passed on again in email today and I found myself every bit as touched -- the first person tale of a man sent to infuse a Brazilian tribe with Christianity only to find hi… (View Post)
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