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genkaku Veteran
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- genkaku
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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: Tearing up the sutras.
I always liked the old guys in Zen, the pedal-to-the-metal ball-busters. The first time I read Huang Po, he scared the crap out of me. When I finished the book, the first thing I did was to start rea… (View Post)
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Re: We are lucky
I wonder which is more fruitful -- to indulge in vivid imaginings and tales of other birth scenarios or 'karmic potential' or some such ... or to practice whatever practice is chosen with as much ded… (View Post)
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Re: Meditation, recalling lots of painful past moment.
I don't know if this will give you heart or not: Once upon a time, during a sesshin or Zen retreat, a humongous leg pain overcame me. Awful! Horrific! In a room full of rock-still Zen students, I too… (View Post)
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Re: Resolution
As a friend of mine used to advise about resolutions, especially around new year's: "Don't make 'em and don't break 'em. (View Post)3 -
Re: How does one locate a teacher?
At the risk of shameless self-promotion and yet another repetition, here is a cheat-sheet I once wrote for a young Christian who came here to practice Zen and, as she put it, to "learn tolerance… (View Post)
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