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- Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: “special transmission”?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3216
Re: “special transmission”?
It’s so narrow, there’s nowhere to land. It’s so broad, you can’t fall off. It's not good or bad, old or new, big or small, yours or mine. It has no inside or outside, no beginning or end, no life or death. It’s not something or nothing, or both, or neither. It can't be lost or gained and it doesn't...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:56 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: This One Mind is You
- Replies: 54
- Views: 15785
Re: This One Mind is You
Can you say more? Without understanding, realization isn't possible. MMK 24:8-10 The dharma explained by the Buddha properly relies on two truths: mundane relative truth and ultimate truth. One who does not understand the distinction between the two truths will not understand the profound principle...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:18 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: This One Mind is You
- Replies: 54
- Views: 15785
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: This One Mind is You
- Replies: 54
- Views: 15785
Re: This One Mind is You
how is that our minds have private, personal experiences? Doesn’t this point to separateness, a “you” and a “me”? It is like closing one eye and opening another. The view with each eye differs. Yet, whether one or both eyes are open, the view is seamless. Though it is seamless, it is not some homog...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:00 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Working with fear
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1239
Re: Working with fear
Get to know it. With discernment regarding what is genuinely dangerous or harmful, move towards the things that frighten you. When fear overtakes you, do not turn away. What is fear? What is it made of? What is it that can be harmed by fear? If you feel like your world is about to end, let it. Let f...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:36 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zazen and emptiness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10294
Re: Zazen and emptiness
You practice zazen and realize you. Zazen practices you and realizes zazen. Emptiness practices emptiness and realizes emptiness. Zazen practices zazen and realizes zazen. Ummmmmmmmm ... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??!!!! :tantrum: We don't practice zazen to cultivate a sense of underst...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:57 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zazen and emptiness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10294
Re: Zazen and emptiness
When Dogen said "Zazen is enlightenment" was he basically saying "Zazen is the realization of emptiness?" I wouldn't put it that way. Zazen fully realized is the realization of emptiness. Which is to say that zazen fully realized is the realization of zazen. You practice zazen a...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:54 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zazen and emptiness
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10294
Re: Zazen and emptiness
"In this lineage of Soto Zen, we say “realized practice.” Practice does not bring about any “end.” We practice practising for the sake of practice, and unfold practice within practice. We realize practice through practice. We practice our life and realize our life. Our life is the practice of ...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Zen/Attain True Self
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4640
Re: Zen/Attain True Self
Teachers apply expedients as the situation demands. When one hears 'True Self' he's liable to think of gaining something. When another hears 'no self' she's is liable to think of losing something. When they hear 'it's not a thing,' they're liable to form a concept of something that's not a thing and...
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 5:56 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: How To React When Things Doesn't Go the Way They are Suppose To?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4667
Re: How To React When Things Doesn't Go the Way They are Suppose To?
It's easy to see, but hard to admit, that only what does happen can.
- Sun May 10, 2020 2:48 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Uploading the ego to the cloud
- Replies: 72
- Views: 8822
Re: Uploading the ego to the cloud
Wu-tsu asked a monk, "The woman Ch'ien and her spirit separated. Which is the true Ch'ien?" If your own personal program of grasping could be uploaded and simulated by advanced AI, this might be useful for modeling outcomes for potential therapeutic interventions, but as a strategy for pro...
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 1:43 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: What would you do?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2026
Re: What would you do?
Meet and respond to the matter at hand.
"Mara, old friend, good to see you."
"Mara, old friend, good to see you."
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 3:18 pm
- Forum: Soto
- Topic: Shobogenzo Recommendations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5047
Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Nishijima & Cross, Vol. 1-4: https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo_1_NC.pdf https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo_2_NC.pdf https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/Dogen_Teachings/Shobogenzo-3_NC.pdf https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:17 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Illusion in Dzogchen
- Replies: 79
- Views: 18008
Re: Illusion in Dzogchen
The 'seeing' (appearance) and the 'being' (reality) are not separate things that could ever truly oppose one another. This immediate appearance is not other than its empty nature. Yet, by conceiving of these in opposition, an appearance of things in opposition harmoniously appears. Clearly seeing (r...
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: To be somebody, or to be nobody
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3592
Re: To be somebody, or to be nobody
Loneliness, humiliation, resentment, and fear reveal the liability of being somebody, but you have to be somebody, sometimes, to respond appropriately to the situation at hand. Just don't hang your hat. It means treating frames of reference in terms of situational relevancy. When I meet my mother I ...
- Mon Mar 26, 2018 3:55 pm
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: ‘Dharmas do not arise’
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12978
Re: ‘Dharmas do not arise’
According to Dogen, particular dharmas are what time is. The when and the what are one and the same. How then, do things arise? "[Human] skin bags recognize [time] as leaving and coming; none has penetrated it as existence-time abiding in its place: how much less could any experience time havin...
- Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: How do buddhists find exercise motivation?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6580
- Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:53 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: A Zen story that stayed with me for decades
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3193
Re: A Zen story that stayed with me for decades
In private interview, after the student recites the koan, the teacher will say a line from the koan, or not, and pause for a response. Sometimes the teacher will ask for comment line by line, or there are specific checking questions. Unless the response is exemplary, the teacher may either send the ...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Is Mind Fundamental?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10248
Re: Is Mind Fundamental?
What I'm positing is that mind is fundamental because that is what we experience--- we never experience matter. Again, if I'm wrong, please point out what matter is like independent of mind and perception. "Matter" is usually based on some sort of enduring, underlying substance--- in anci...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:28 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: (Why) Did the Buddha grief his family?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3031
Re: (Why) Did the Buddha grief his family?
He sees the emptiness of dharmas that are, nevertheless, the fundamental constituents of reality. Empty friends and loved ones are the only kind you will ever know. Tears that are not tears, grief that is not grief. An empty chair is real enough to sit on.