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I am also relativly new to zazen and would have to agree that it is not ecstatic but hard work to learn to just sit when sitting. The awareness of my breath...
Hello, Let me present you something that you don't use to talk about : the ET presence. THOUSANDS OF WITNESSES CONFIRM THEIR EXISTENCE. It is so important for...
With palms together, Practrice should be just practice, from my point of view. Nothing special , just an open eye seeing directly what is in front of it to...
... I have a different veiwpoint on this matter. Zazen is neither estatic nor hard work...but sometimes it is estatic and sometimes it is hard work and...
Dear List, Sodaiho makes a good point, I would also like to add that this is a somewhat organic process that ebbs and flows throughout your life.. sometimes...
I echo Mark & Infernal Elk's experiences. Although I am not now daily meditating, I have in the past. However 'from the gut' seems to imply some sort of...
Hi Kevin, With palms together, Sometimes we forget that the "nothing" everyone talks about does not mean the same thing we in the west usually take it to mean....
" http://www.osho.go.ro / http://www.osho7.home.ro (<-- mirror sites) A site dedicated to Osho: he describes the day that he got enlightened, spiritual life,...
the new site -> "http://www.osho777.go.ro -- http://www.osho777.home. ro (<-- mirror sites) 33 audio files - 44 Mb - 450 minutes You can listen to an...
With palms together, I have seen Osho's videos. You all know that zazen practice helps produce extreme tolerance for boredom -- for example, if I can slip into...
... It's also worth remembering that the great masters have the same problems, too, so there's no shame in us mere mortals having them! :-) yours, aye, steve...
... Ah, but that implies a dualistic (oppositional, formal) structure, doesn't it? ;-) I think it's important to remember that the Mahayana stress on...
Folks, Hi, how are you all? Does anyone know if there is any zen buddhist organization that supports academic work? (In the catholic church, for instance, the ...
the May update to the Buddhist bibliography is now online at : http://www.cyberdistributeur.com/buddbib.html while the Buddhist directory is now online at : ...
... Fine and dandy! ... Don't know about Zen specifically, but Naropa Institute is a fully accredited Buddhist university, last I knew, that may fund research ...
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I want to read more about Dogen. What books can you recommand. I am looking for something more biographical. Also are there any recommandations on Soto zen...
... Messer Xin! Small Internet! I have not seen this list active, and when it pops up, there you are. Sorry I haven't much to contribute to the topic. You may...
Dear Maarten, Hi, how are you? I have just read a book entitled `Shoes outside the Door`, which is a very interesting analysis of the first zen community...
Hi, Maarten and Francisco-- As interesting, useful, and important as *Shoes Outside the Door* and *Zen at War* are, neither is about Dogen or his teaching. A...
Weasel, Hi, how are you? He asked about books on zen history, and I believe that the books indicated are related to this issue. Anyway, I apologize if the...
... It is spring and I am alive. This is pretty wonderful. ... No, the books you mention are important for recent history, although both are concerned with the...
... I wasn't aware this book was about Soto in particular. Actually, what the author has to say has to be taken with a grain of salt. It was reported on...
Dear Lee, Shoken-san relates that Katagiri Roshi told stories of being an airplane mechanic for a squadron of Kamikaze pilots and how weird it was to prepare ...
... First off, if we want to stop the atrocities of war, we should focus on what we are responsible for "right here, right now." The American military is...
Hi Lee! Hope you are well! Please have a 2nd serious look onto Fudo´s mail - I feel he did not just eproduce a revionist statement. Some one tells, someone...
Dear Lee, Wow!! such anger....wonder where that came from???....first of all ..I was only reporting what I heard and I did report the source.......guess I must...
Very well said Kyosan. We need to realize that these difficulties are not the problems of "other people." They are human problems that we all share. If we are...