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Re: Zen.......self-taught or via a Teacher ?
@alex -- I do hope you will note the responses here that seek to avoid this particular mistake or that one in Zen practice. Looking back over a number of years, I find that the mistakes I made were s… (View Post)
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Re: Wealth and morality
Tangentially, it occurred to me the other day ... That most if not all of the founders of one spiritual lineage or another were relatively wealthy and/or well educated by background. Wealth (even as … (View Post)
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Re: Introduction and questions
@jewel -- Welcome. Hope you find something useful here. Sometimes I think of monasticism as one of the corner-office versions of Zen practice ... everyone thinks that becoming a monk would be a mark … (View Post)2 -
Re: The Intellect...
(Quote) @Fosdick -- I like your wife. (View Post)
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Re: The Intellect...
When it comes to the intellect, my money is on Swami Vivekananda who once wrote, "The mind [he meant intellect] is a good servant and a poor master." And, perhaps the free-floating suggesti… (View Post)
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