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zen

It's hanging on my wall. :p

Real answer; apparently not. I often have problems with Purpose, Speech, and Conduct, and sometimes with Meditation. :D
 
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I can recommend the book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki. Short, easy to read and understand. No pictures though. :rolleyes:

There are several poor ways to practice...
...you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill.

...this is absurd.

When you are idealistic, you have some gaining goal within yourself; by the time you attain your ideal or goal, your gaining idea will create another ideal.

...because your ideal is always ahead, you will always be sacrificing yourself now for some ideal in the future. You end up with nothing. This is absurd; it is not adequate practice at all. But even worse than this... is to practice zazen in competition with someone else. This is a poor, shabby kind of practice. pp71-72
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Kopji said:
I can recommend the book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Shunryu Suzuki. Short, easy to read and understand. No pictures though. :rolleyes:
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Interesting you mention this book. I read it years ago and found it to be quite difficult to conceptualize and understand. I read other books that were more comprehensible to me. I guess pictures would have been a bonus in my case! :p
 
nowornever said:
I cannot live from moment to moment, right here right now. All the time occupied by the outside or the inner. Also I escape from meditation as it is boring and unpleasant. I have a problem.
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Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

-Rumi
 
Limbo said:
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

-Rumiy
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FTFY

The pink elephants aren't real but their trumpeting is.
 
The Norseman said:
Interesting you mention this book. I read it years ago and found it to be quite difficult to conceptualize and understand. I read other books that were more comprehensible to me. I guess pictures would have been a bonus in my case! :p
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Ha! Well usually I'm one who struggles with text. I found it pretty easy to follow though. There is one picture of a fly on the page.

The book was recommended to be by an old forum friend from another site - a Vegetarian-Buddhist-Atheist-Zen practitioner from Perth who had grown up raising sheep in the outback. That's like someone having super powers isn't it? :D
 
Kopji said:
Ha! Well usually I'm one who struggles with text. I found it pretty easy to follow though. There is one picture of a fly on the page.

The book was recommended to be by an old forum friend from another site - a Vegetarian-Buddhist-Atheist-Zen practitioner from Perth who had grown up raising sheep in the outback. That's like someone having super powers isn't it? :D
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Heh, yes, I do agree!

All Aussies are given an automatic +1 in my book.
 
the highway is green-that is true, but if your uncle is sick, call a doctor-that's the function of the truth.

Who here practises zen?
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join the list please.
 
Final exam question at Bailin Temple (China):

The Buddha taught for 40 years and never said a word.

true or false? why?
 
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