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by mujushinkyo
Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:52 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Zen and Ki Training
Replies: 18
Views: 5407

Re: Zen and Ki Training

This is sort of relevant, too: "Zen Miracle Cure for Anxiety & PTSD" (using Hara breathing, Ki-intensifying & Seiza-sitting) I read this blog entry you linked to. The practice you lay out seems harmless and perhaps could be useful to someone. But describing it as "Zen done in...
by mujushinkyo
Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:03 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: No Lineage
Replies: 6
Views: 1661

No Lineage

Shakyamuni Buddha recommended a path of Dhyana (Zen) plus Direct Inquiry & Analysis. As he was dying, he refused to name a lineage successor. Instead, he said the Dharma was his successor, and that students should "Be a light for yourselves, go all out, work hard, attain liberation." T...
by mujushinkyo
Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:11 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Replies: 14
Views: 4089

Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem

I understand what you're saying, but it's not completely so. Layman Pang, for example, didn't take ordination or study Buddhist doctrines. I have studied sutras, treatises, commentaries and teachings, yet there is still the basic question : What is this? Layman Pang was a literati, a very well educ...
by mujushinkyo
Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:06 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Replies: 12
Views: 3235

Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain

Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea. I don't reject Buddha. I am Buddha. So are you, if you'd wake up to it. No, I guess you'd rather argue! The wind wants to comb your hair, the rain wants to bathe you, but you pre...
by mujushinkyo
Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:04 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Replies: 12
Views: 3235

Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain

Actually, apart from the fact that he was enlightened the Buddha was also qualified to teach on the basis of the following: He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers. After mastering the teachings of Alara Kalama (Skr. Ārāḍa Kālāma), he was asked by Kalama to succeed him. However, Ga...
by mujushinkyo
Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:01 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Zen and Ki Training
Replies: 18
Views: 5407

Re: Zen and Ki Training

This is sort of relevant, too:

"Zen Miracle Cure for Anxiety & PTSD" (using Hara breathing, Ki-intensifying & Seiza-sitting)
by mujushinkyo
Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:58 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Zen and Ki Training
Replies: 18
Views: 5407

Re: Zen and Ki Training

So I guess the answer is there is no long history of Ki/body energy practices in zen, except where zen was mixed with martial arts training? In Japanese Rinzai Zen there are indeed energetic practices. More generally-known ones include: 1. The breathing which is used in zazen itself, which is cente...
by mujushinkyo
Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:51 am
Forum: Zen
Topic: Zen and Ki Training
Replies: 18
Views: 5407

Re: Zen and Ki Training

I found Koichi Tohei's KI IN DAILY LIVING a very useful book. It's practical and simple and mystical all that once. The basic principle is investigating your own Ki-state. Is it weak, or strong? Is it "extended" or "shrunk"? Positive or negative? I never met Koichi Tohei or any o...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:42 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Replies: 14
Views: 4089

Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem

Where's the "I" in their experience? You probably had a glimpse into the experience they had. But I really did have that experience. It's quite absurd to tell people what experiences they've had and haven't had. My apologies. I didn't mean to tell you want experiences you've had (though t...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:30 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Replies: 14
Views: 4089

Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem

Enlightenment by sound, a common Zen theme. But, the Shurangama Sutra's teaching on Avalokitesvara's method is not exactly the same. As for the Zen part, enlightenment by a sudden noise or other experience, it means the cutting of conceptual thinking while at the same time being aware. This is call...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:56 pm
Forum: Shingon
Topic: "Shingon Zen"
Replies: 32
Views: 14515

Re: "Shingon Zen"

Leo Rivers wrote:That is indistinguishable from Tibetan practices ... and The Yoga Tantras behind Shingon share the same 5 basic features of the Mahayoga texts that came a tad later and went to Tibet. (3 samadhis, ect...) AND - these same methods show up as support in Ati as well.
Undoubtedly. Thanks.
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:54 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Replies: 14
Views: 4089

Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem

But you really haven't had an experience like that. Where's the "I" in their experience? You probably had a glimpse into the experience they had. But I really did have that experience. It's quite absurd to tell people what experiences they've had and haven't had. Where is the "I"...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:24 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Replies: 14
Views: 4089

Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem

As someone who at one time did a lot of Zen, I find the story of Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment quite riveting: One day, Zen Master Seung Sahn decided that he wouldn’t be able to help people through his political activities or his academic studies and instead, shaved his head and went into the mo...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:38 pm
Forum: Shingon
Topic: "Shingon Zen"
Replies: 32
Views: 14515

"Shingon Zen"

I've been doing Shingon "Ajikan" meditation for some time now. The main way is where you visualize the letter "A" in Siddham script on a moon disk and then let it sink into your heart. There's also a version where you merely repeat the sound "Ah" with every breath. It s...
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:31 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Replies: 12
Views: 3235

Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain

A Zen-inspired prose poem.

Is it really Buddhist?

I don't know.

Here's a poem for you:

Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
by mujushinkyo
Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:21 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Zen and Ki Training
Replies: 18
Views: 5407

Zen and Ki Training

Has anyone else done Koichi Tohei style Ki-training in conjunction with sitting Zen (zazen or mokuso)? What were your experiences with it? Mine have always been interesting:
by mujushinkyo
Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:24 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Kensho and Satori
Replies: 54
Views: 14414

Re: Kensho and Satori

Hey Clarence, My posts on this forum are merely an example of my posts on this forum. Why should they be an example of anything else? Also, who says I'm angry? I was just laughing about Greg's last post. Maybe he's not even angry. That would be nice. Then we could just talk like human beings about ...
by mujushinkyo
Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:22 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Kensho and Satori
Replies: 54
Views: 14414

Re: Kensho and Satori

There are basically the kinds of energetic techniques I teach people, if anyone is interested in anything but arguing and being quite condescending. I can't help it if people sometimes get Kensho while they're doing the stuff I show them. Maybe the techniques contain some power independent of whatev...
by mujushinkyo
Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:15 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Kensho and Satori
Replies: 54
Views: 14414

Re: Kensho and Satori

I'm serious about the "Palzang" business. You're talking just like him. Look into it. I wouldn't mention it unless your wording was pretty much exactly his wording. What does that tell you? Wake up and stop being so aggressive. We're talking about matters that are interesting. Instead of ...
by mujushinkyo
Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:12 pm
Forum: Zen
Topic: Kensho and Satori
Replies: 54
Views: 14414

Re: Kensho and Satori

Instead of trying to shut me down, just go elsewhere! Asking somebody, that claims they are a teacher and charges $2000 to assist you achieve kensho/satori, for their qualifications is not an attempt to shut them down, it is a window of opportunity for them to prove their worth. The forum is under ...

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