The commentary that I want people to read on the oxherding pictures (at this link: http://www.terebess.hu/english/oxherding.html) is not by Master Sheng Yen,...
Just a reminder that class two ("Seeing the footprints") will start at noon tomorrow. I plan to start the class right at 12:00. Beth and I are having a tree...
Part of the Homework that's been assigned so far is the section titled "The Story of Won Hyo" in the book "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha". This is probably the...
When we were going over the homework assignment (for those who were at the class today) I forgot to include the commentary on the oxherding pictures by Kubota...
Dear Group, I didn't mean to send this essay to everyone. Please be kind and ignore it as I didn't mean for it to be a public communique. BJ BJ Soto...
Came across this while doing some online research on the Heart Sutra and just had to send it out since one of our conversations in the first class was to what...
I would like everyone to read one short additional story before coming to the third oxherding class. It's "The Story of Sul" - section 82 (on page 187) in...
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Sep 7, 2006 3:23 pm
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I uploaded the outlines and handouts for the first three classes to the yahoo group website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/principles_of_zen/files/ If anyone...
The final scheduled offering of the second class (on "Seeing the footprints") is scheduled for tomorrow night at 7:00. Please email me if you are planning to...
I don't think I can make it, Curt. I'm going to Scotland tomorrow and I'm getting a little frantic trying to get ready. They're piling it on at work, too --...
hi dharma friends, i have moved to France in Blois for the next eight months. i started a blog at http://pensedemain.blogspot.com for those who are interested...
All, Last evening in Rockville, we were asked about beginner's books. This is my short list in approximate order of reading (although Bachelor and Loori could...
Wanted to share a fun quote from the film we saw last Friday for zen movie night (Nobody Loves Me - directed by Doris Dorrie). The main character, a woman...
I ran into a review by "Curtis Steinmetz" on amazon, so I checked his other reviews and wondered if it's you. The reviews are about mostly books about pagans...
sorry about that last email..Didn't mean to send to group. I switched to Thunderbird and I'm having trouble sometimes replying to whom I think I'm replying to....
Dear Friends, Below you will find information about an upcoming Thanksgiving event. My husband and I have attended this event the past two years and had a ...
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In latest Buddhadharma magazine there's a review of a book called A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar about vajrayana buddhism - anyway - a quote from a sutra...
Hmm... to me, not remaining means to not leave a deep footprint. ... -- ... "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our...
Actually, Elizabeth, all of them are interchangeable. Not grasping could be morality, patience, diligence ect. It depends on how "you" look at it. Maybe there...
Morality could be defined as conforming to a codification of concepts and beliefs. Perhaps "remaining" here is "conforming". Wisdom or jnana (had to look this...
Maybe, it has something to do with the process of karma-- action of evolving and moving forward for the betterment of all and not staying stuck or remaining....
I'm thinking of the word "remaining" in the literal sense, ie "staying", which makes me think of Pema Chodron's lectures on "learning to stay," not always...
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