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@misecmisc1-- My Zen teacher, who was the abbot of a Japanese monastery in his later years, told me once that for the first 17 years of his zazen practice, his legs hurt like hell. This is not to sug… (View Post)
It's a sorry fact that the codification of spiritual endeavor (let's call it "religion") invariably makes religion complicit in atrocity and war. Trying to evade the lash of this observatio… (View Post)
(Quote) Of course it too many people took up the practice, there wouldn't be anyone left to construct or praise or frolic with their "Buddhism." (View Post)
In the newspaper reporting I was once part of, the imposed style was "pro-abortion" and "anti-abortion." The reasoning was that everyone is "pro-life" so juxtaposing &qu… (View Post)