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The Middle Way: November 2005
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A Way that Can Be Told (Not the Real Way). Wednesday, November 30, 2005. It is a very good question. Zen Master Dogen said: Buddhism is the action of sitting. The action of sitting is Buddhism. For me, a devotee of Master Dogen, the practical question, the real question, is: How to sit? In essence, for almost all Zazen practitioners, there is only one way to sit: the way that accords with my habitual sense of myself. It is an extraordinarily difficult and challenging search. From 1982 to 1997 I worked on...
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The Middle Way: January 2006
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A Way that Can Be Told (Not the Real Way). Tuesday, January 31, 2006. My legs neither walk nor feel pain. I do. My brain never dreams and never thinks. I do. No superego suppresses my deepest desires. I do. My unconscious mind never denies reality. I do. But letting go I do not do. Natural breathing I do not do. There is such a thing, Dogen wrote, as:. That I do not do. Posted by Mike Cross at 2:29 PM. Friday, January 27, 2006. The Blue Lotus Blooms in Fire. What did Master Dogen mean by work out? The ch...
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The Middle Way: December 2005
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A Way that Can Be Told (Not the Real Way). Saturday, December 24, 2005. The knack of Zazen. Shobogenzo begins with the information that when buddhas are experiencing the supreme awakening (Sanskrit: anuttara samyak sambodhi), they have a subtle means which is supreme and natural. Posted by Mike Cross at 4:15 PM. Wednesday, December 21, 2005. Intending to Allow the Ineffable. THE INEFFABLE is something totally unintentional. As Buddhists, we intend to obey Gautama Buddha's teaching, which is just to liber...
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The Middle Way: February 2006
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A Way that Can Be Told (Not the Real Way). Tuesday, February 28, 2006. In Shobogenzo chap. 70 Master Dogen discusses a Sanskrit term,. Which means the will to be awake. To me, means my wish not to be a slave to unconscious reaction. Master Dogen writes that to establish. Means to vow that, and to endeavor so that, "Before I myself cross over, I will take across all living beings.". Sod off and establish your own. One was FM Alexander (1869 - 1954). The other was Kodo Sawaki (1880 - 1965). Through nearly ...
