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Whitebelt Zen: Physical Thought
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Not a single thought occurs without a change in the physical structure of the brain in either the wires or the juice. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). With this blog I strive to share what I've learned and think about Buddhism. I'm striving to do zazen and follow the 10 precepts. Buddhism seems to be helpful, but shrouded in too much weight and mystery. I hope you find something useful, interesting, whimsical or amusing (as in provoking your muses).
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Whitebelt Zen: July 2014
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View my complete profile. Sunday, July 20, 2014. Straightening up Indras Net in a Neighborhood Near You. There is never any real stasis. All is changing and connected. What I see sometimes in myself is that I would like to imagine that I am not part of this connectedness. I say "we are all one" but in the next breath I might say "I do not abuse intoxicants" and wax on to ponder if I should give money to someone I have reason to believe might use it to buy intoxicants. Or maybe not (knot! Falling back to ...
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Whitebelt Zen: October 2013
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View my complete profile. Sunday, October 27, 2013. The Venerable Mujin Nobody Roshi. I often see advertisement for speaking engagements and dharma talks where much of the text is devoted to describing the institutional position and years of practice of the speaker, and assigning an epithetic title like "Roshi". I think this indicates a misunderstanding of basic Buddhist principles, and it confuses me with one of those "elephant in the room" feelings. That is "can't those people see how wrong that is?
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Whitebelt Zen: A Decidedly Strange Story
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View my complete profile. Saturday, June 6, 2015. A Decidedly Strange Story. Rules are related to decision. When one encounters a rule, the presumption is they will consider their pending action and decide to do it or not, depending on how it aligns with the rule. Rules depend on decision. If one could explain to a dog there is a rule about tail wagging it would be pointless. A dog wags its tail based on the circumstance it is exposed to, not because it decides to wag its tail. Story provided early human...
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Whitebelt Zen: November 2013
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View my complete profile. Sunday, November 10, 2013. I hate you, me. I read in a blog."How our minds figure out so many ways to impede our life from bursting forth completely.". There is no I and there is no other. How can there be intimacy or estrangement? I recommend giving up trying to get there by meditation,. But rather, directly seizing the reality at hand. The message of the Diamond Sutra is:. Nothing is excluded from our experienced world. From beginning to end,. Nothing is excluded. Not even...
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Whitebelt Zen: Not Not
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View my complete profile. Sunday, June 7, 2015. Saying it's 'survival of the fitest' brings some sort of judgement into it. We tend to anthropomorphisize (? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). With this blog I strive to share what I've learned and think about Buddhism. I'm striving to do zazen and follow the 10 precepts. Buddhism seems to be helpful, but shrouded in too much weight and mystery. I hope you find something useful, interesting, whimsical or amusing (as in provoking your muses). FEEDJIT Live ...
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Whitebelt Zen: The Better Enso Leaves a Gap
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View my complete profile. Thursday, September 11, 2014. The Better Enso Leaves a Gap. While browsing facebook I stumbled on a wall with a post with this picture. An enso. More commonly done with an ink brush. Most ensos have a small gap. Not all. The post I stumbled upon invited a poem or a proverb to be added, so I guess that woke up my muse after a long work day. Thanks to Sunyata Purnamadah whose wall I had stumbled on. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Most people end up here because they are surfi...
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Whitebelt Zen: Future Past Theories
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View my complete profile. Sunday, June 7, 2015. Think of a pan of BBs tilted. Think of that small wave front on the beach that children love to chase. Think of a line of domino's with one now falling. Think of a room filled with mouse traps set with ping pong balls and one just sprung. Now is a cascade of cause/outcome. A wave-front of instant coming into being and dropping away. Past' is a theory of what has happened but it has no nominal existance. It is not there. Now drop the pan of BB's analogy.
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Whitebelt Zen: February 2014
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View my complete profile. Sunday, February 23, 2014. After trauma, the brain is permanently changed, injured, I n a way that is noticeably altered from past habits, and often in a way that is intrusive, unwelcome, and troubling. Memories are not some sort of magic. There is no "cloud" for the human brain from which I download what I want to recall. The point is, the changes are a real, physical characteristic of me. Similarly, mental scars probably cannot be "cured" with any amount of happy, positive thi...
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Whitebelt Zen: September 2014
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View my complete profile. Thursday, September 11, 2014. The Better Enso Leaves a Gap. While browsing facebook I stumbled on a wall with a post with this picture. An enso. More commonly done with an ink brush. Most ensos have a small gap. Not all. The post I stumbled upon invited a poem or a proverb to be added, so I guess that woke up my muse after a long work day. Thanks to Sunyata Purnamadah whose wall I had stumbled on. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Most people end up here because they are surfing for a...
