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Hermitage | This Upasika Life
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Home & Blog. Tujantane – Tongabezi Trust School Zambia. Mosier Hermitage Comes to its End. October 21, 2007. The Living Expression of Dhamma. Alistair and I emerged from our camping/hiking/retreating into the Wallowa Mountains like two gliding geese landing atop a frozen lake. Cloaked in confident demeanors we did our best to gracefully slide through the exciting events ahead. Portland Friends of the Dhamma. September 30, 2007. It Feels So Real. August 19, 2007. For several years while attending Reed Col...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Tibetan Teachings on Shamatha for Theravadins
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Tibetan Teachings on Shamatha for Theravadins. In the Tibetan teachings the passage from parikamma-samadhi into appana-samadhi is broken up into nine or four stages. An understanding of these stages can be helpful, especially for lay practitioners who are likely to spend a lot of time in parikamma- and upacara- samadhi! The Tibetan teachings describe progress in samadhi with regards to setti...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Effort and Effortlessness
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Friday, March 27, 2015. Do not think, "I will practice later." That attitude makes it never: our time simply runs out . Time will not wait for us. The ultimate practice is undistracted nonmeditation, which obliterates the root of confusion. It totally and permanently obliterates all karma, dusturbing emotions, and habitual tendencies. Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, "Present Fresh Wakefulness". Love the discipline you know, ...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: March 2015
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Monday, March 30, 2015. St Isaac of Syria: The Kingdom of God is Within (with some "commentary" from Ramana Maharshi). The spiritual country of the person who is pure in soul is within. The sun which shines within them is the light of the holy trinity. The air which the inhabitants of that realm breathe is the strengthening and all holy spirit. The holy and bodiless beings make their abode within them. Daily Reading...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: The Dharma of Pooh: "Winnie the Buddhist" from the incomparable PB Law
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. The Dharma of Pooh: "Winnie the Buddhist" from the incomparable PB Law. Here's a piece I just noticed on Tricycle Online by the pre-eminent American Buddhist satirist. Highly recommended:. Http:/ www.tricycle.com/web-exclusive/winnie-buddhist. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Three Poems by Stonehouse (tr. Red Pine). Issho Fujita: "Zazen is not Shuzen". Confucius said, I am thinking a...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Free From Activity: A Teaching From Ajaan Mun
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Free From Activity: A Teaching From Ajaan Mun. Activityless-ness is the end point of the world, beyond supposing and formulation. Khinasava jutimanto te loke parinibbuta. The answer is that we will stay in a place that isn't supposed: right there with activityless-ness. In other words, they have worked at it and developed it repeatedly to the point where the mind has the strength capable of an...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Issho Fujita: "Zazen is not Shuzen"
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Issho Fujita: "Zazen is not Shuzen". An interesting piece from the Dharma Eye magazine. I am posting it mostly because I think it is such a clear articulation of Zazen practice in modern Soto Zen, particularly in the Kodo Sawaki lineage. This is Dogen's Zazen according to that lineage. I like this piece a lot. Enjoy:. My Footnotes on Zazen 1 Zazen is not Shuzen (1). This is a very important ...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Shamatha and Vipashyana (Samatha and Vipassana) [Revised]
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Shamatha and Vipashyana (Samatha and Vipassana) [Revised]. In Pali, shi-ne. In Tibetan, shi. In Japanese. Vipashyana is insight or "seeing", known as vipassana. In Pali, lhatong. In Tibetan , kan. In Japanese. It seems to me that a yogi. In Buddhaghosa's sense of "a practitioner", should always be engaged in one of the two of these practices. Sabba papassa akaranam (not doing evil). The last...
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains: Not Knowing: Shoyoroku Case 20
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Blue Waters, Blue Mountains. A blog on non-dual traditions and seemingly related matters. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Not Knowing: Shoyoroku Case 20. Master Jizo asked Hogen, "Where have you come from? I am on pilgrimage, following the wind", replied Hogen. What is the matter of your pilgrimage? I don't know," replied Hogen. Not knowing is most intimate," replied Jizo. At that Hogen experienced a great awakening. Notes for going deeper:. 2 How is this cultivated? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Elevate ...
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Links — Temple Forest Monastery
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A Buddhist forest monastery taking root in New England. This website makes available many audio and e-book downloads from disciples of Ajahn Chah. Dhamma Talks, chanting, e-books (as well as printed books), calendars and more. Also accessible via these shorter URLs: fsbooks.org. Other monastery websites have a variety of resources available, such as the Amaravati. Websites, and many of those listed on the community portal site: forestsangha.org. In various audio and text formats. A related monastery and ...