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Mind Makes Everything: What is Buddha?

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Mind Makes Everything - The Book. Five Mountain Zen Order. Saturday, May 3, 2014. Here is another Koan Study. It is a very old Koan and goes something like this:. Zen Master Dongshan was asked by a monk, "What is Buddha? To which he replied "Three Pounds of Flax. Sometime before Zen Master Yunmen had been asked by another monk, "What is Buddha? To which he replied "Dry shit on stick.". Question 1: What is Buddha? Question 2: What does three pounds of flax mean? Let's look at question 1 - What is Buddha?

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Mind Makes Everything: Zen Master So Sahn and "The Work"

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Mind Makes Everything - The Book. Five Mountain Zen Order. Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Zen Master So Sahn and "The Work". There are some popular "Enlightened" people out there. One of them is Byron Katie. After her experience (maybe realizing Mind Makes Everything), she came up with a means of dealing with thoughts, which she called "The Work." Essentially it boils down to investigating individual thoughts with the following four questions (paraphrased here). Can you absolutely be sure it is true? Delusion r...

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Don't Make Anything!: Deep Listening II

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Trying to live a life. Wednesday, June 13, 2012. From this past weekend's meeting of Queer Sangha, where Rev. Do'an and I speak about deep listening. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Metta in the Spirit of Zen. Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation. Five Mountain Zen Clergy Blogs. Watermark theme. Powered by Blogger.

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Don't Make Anything!: June 2012

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Trying to live a life. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Metta in the Spirit of Zen. Metta is a wonderful practice and a wonderful mindstate. The act of blessing or making an aspiration for someone or ourselves is powerful. And I'd like to make a point about metta that I haven't yet written about on this blog:. Metta is not a practice about making things nice. Metta as a practice is radical: it is radical in its openness. It is radical in its clarity. And it is radical in its scope. Om Mani Peme Hung. And when t...

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Don't Make Anything!: Poppy in the Graveyard; Getting to know Avatamsaka teachings

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Trying to live a life. Monday, March 19, 2012. Poppy in the Graveyard; Getting to know Avatamsaka teachings. I have never loved someone the way I love you. I have never seen a smile like yours. And if you grow up to be king, or clown, or pauper. I will say you are my favorite one in town. I have never held a hand so soft and sacred. When I hear you laugh, I know heaven’s key. And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard. I will send you all my love upon the breeze. The Avatamsaka Sutra (Chin. With as m...

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Don't Make Anything!: traumatic grief

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Trying to live a life. Friday, December 14, 2012. The loss of a child becomes much harder to bear when the death is unexpected and/or violent. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross articulated a theory of stages of grief in relation to loss in her 1969 classic. On Death and Dying. It is terror to imagine children being killed and witnessing killing. Other than organizing for direct response in order to provide appropriate mental health services to the survivors and families, I think one of the best responses is to o...

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Don't Make Anything!: Anathapindikovada Sutta

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Trying to live a life. Monday, June 18, 2012. At the suggestion of a trusted elder, I've been acquainting myself with the connections between. Instructions to Anathapindika Sutta. The sutra is comprised of Shariputra's instructions to the dying benefactor Anathapindika. Here are some highlights (abridged by me, translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu):. Then, householder, you should train yourself in this way: 'I won't cling to forms. I won't cling to eye-consciousness. I won't cling to contact at the eye.

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Don't Make Anything!: Deep Listening

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Trying to live a life. Monday, June 11, 2012. Yesterday, my Dharma brother Rev. Lawrence Do'an Grecco. And I gave a Dharma talk on deep listening to the Queer Sangha for which we teach. I'm sure he'll throw a link up to the audio in the next few days, so check back. It was a wonderful thing to reflect on. I was inspired to suggest it as a topic by a chapter on listening in Norman Zoketsu Fischer's book Taking our Places; a Buddhist path to truly growing up. June 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM.

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Mind Makes Everything: Sudden Enlightenment, Gradual Cultivation

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Mind Makes Everything - The Book. Five Mountain Zen Order. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Sudden Enlightenment, Gradual Cultivation. A new quarter has begun at Buddha Dharma University. This semester there are several students taking the class on the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment is interesting for many reasons. One is because everything one needs to wake up is present in the first two chapters. These basically fall under the category of Sudden Enlightenment. He was super ...