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- genkaku
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- Northampton, Mass. U.S.A.
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Re: Fear of meditation
@nakazcid -- Two possibilities, among others: 1. When something seems too big for you, whittle it down to bite-sized portions. Try meditating for a mere fraction of what you did before. Go small ... … (View Post)
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Re: I have no way of visiting a temple what do I do?
@SJDR21 -- If you have a practice, do that. If you don't, do that. It is nice to have a temple to visit -- it is, as you say, an education. But then ... well, it's nice not to have a temple. That too… (View Post)
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Re: Longest period of Meditation!
As an assistant during one Zen meditation retreat, I suggested to the teacher that instead of having longer sitting periods, there should be an announced sitting of only four or five minutes. He scof… (View Post)
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Re: Heart Failure to Buddhism
Welcome @lookingforlight. Hope you find something useful here. Besides your reading adventures, I suggest you take up a small agenda of meditation. In this way, what is called Buddhism will not becom… (View Post)1 -
Re: East meets west...HELP!
Everyone suffers in or out of uniform. I once corresponded with a military chaplain about the moral ambiguity of his profession. If his highest authority said "thou shalt not kill," how did… (View Post)
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