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- Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:52 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen and Ki Training
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5393
Re: Zen and Ki Training
This is sort of relevant, too: "Zen Miracle Cure for Anxiety & PTSD" (using Hara breathing, Ki-intensifying & Seiza-sitting) I read this blog entry you linked to. The practice you lay out seems harmless and perhaps could be useful to someone. But describing it as "Zen done in...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:03 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: No Lineage
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1661
No Lineage
Shakyamuni Buddha recommended a path of Dhyana (Zen) plus Direct Inquiry & Analysis. As he was dying, he refused to name a lineage successor. Instead, he said the Dharma was his successor, and that students should "Be a light for yourselves, go all out, work hard, attain liberation." T...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:11 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4077
Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
I understand what you're saying, but it's not completely so. Layman Pang, for example, didn't take ordination or study Buddhist doctrines. I have studied sutras, treatises, commentaries and teachings, yet there is still the basic question : What is this? Layman Pang was a literati, a very well educ...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:06 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3231
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Its not the Buddha that pulls the con. Its all those who demonstrate their rejection of him by taking Refuge in an idea. I don't reject Buddha. I am Buddha. So are you, if you'd wake up to it. No, I guess you'd rather argue! The wind wants to comb your hair, the rain wants to bathe you, but you pre...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:04 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3231
Re: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
Actually, apart from the fact that he was enlightened the Buddha was also qualified to teach on the basis of the following: He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers. After mastering the teachings of Alara Kalama (Skr. Ārāḍa Kālāma), he was asked by Kalama to succeed him. However, Ga...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen and Ki Training
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5393
Re: Zen and Ki Training
This is sort of relevant, too:
"Zen Miracle Cure for Anxiety & PTSD" (using Hara breathing, Ki-intensifying & Seiza-sitting)
"Zen Miracle Cure for Anxiety & PTSD" (using Hara breathing, Ki-intensifying & Seiza-sitting)
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:58 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen and Ki Training
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5393
Re: Zen and Ki Training
So I guess the answer is there is no long history of Ki/body energy practices in zen, except where zen was mixed with martial arts training? In Japanese Rinzai Zen there are indeed energetic practices. More generally-known ones include: 1. The breathing which is used in zazen itself, which is cente...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:51 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen and Ki Training
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5393
Re: Zen and Ki Training
I found Koichi Tohei's KI IN DAILY LIVING a very useful book. It's practical and simple and mystical all that once. The basic principle is investigating your own Ki-state. Is it weak, or strong? Is it "extended" or "shrunk"? Positive or negative? I never met Koichi Tohei or any o...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:42 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4077
Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Where's the "I" in their experience? You probably had a glimpse into the experience they had. But I really did have that experience. It's quite absurd to tell people what experiences they've had and haven't had. My apologies. I didn't mean to tell you want experiences you've had (though t...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:30 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4077
Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
Enlightenment by sound, a common Zen theme. But, the Shurangama Sutra's teaching on Avalokitesvara's method is not exactly the same. As for the Zen part, enlightenment by a sudden noise or other experience, it means the cutting of conceptual thinking while at the same time being aware. This is call...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:56 pm
- Forum: Shingon
- Topic: "Shingon Zen"
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14492
Re: "Shingon Zen"
Undoubtedly. Thanks.Leo Rivers wrote:That is indistinguishable from Tibetan practices ... and The Yoga Tantras behind Shingon share the same 5 basic features of the Mahayoga texts that came a tad later and went to Tibet. (3 samadhis, ect...) AND - these same methods show up as support in Ati as well.
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:54 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4077
Re: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
But you really haven't had an experience like that. Where's the "I" in their experience? You probably had a glimpse into the experience they had. But I really did have that experience. It's quite absurd to tell people what experiences they've had and haven't had. Where is the "I"...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4077
Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment & Poem
As someone who at one time did a lot of Zen, I find the story of Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment quite riveting: One day, Zen Master Seung Sahn decided that he wouldn’t be able to help people through his political activities or his academic studies and instead, shaved his head and went into the mo...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:38 pm
- Forum: Shingon
- Topic: "Shingon Zen"
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14492
"Shingon Zen"
I've been doing Shingon "Ajikan" meditation for some time now. The main way is where you visualize the letter "A" in Siddham script on a moon disk and then let it sink into your heart. There's also a version where you merely repeat the sound "Ah" with every breath. It s...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:31 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3231
Comb Your Hair in Wind, Take a Bath in Rain
A Zen-inspired prose poem.
Is it really Buddhist?
I don't know.
Here's a poem for you:
Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
Is it really Buddhist?
I don't know.
Here's a poem for you:
Did Shakyamuni really sit down & wake up under that tree
or was he just conning everybody?
After all, the man seems to have had no credentials.
Why should anybody believe a thing he taught?
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:21 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Zen and Ki Training
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5393
Zen and Ki Training
Has anyone else done Koichi Tohei style Ki-training in conjunction with sitting Zen (zazen or mokuso)? What were your experiences with it? Mine have always been interesting:
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Kensho and Satori
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14405
Re: Kensho and Satori
Hey Clarence, My posts on this forum are merely an example of my posts on this forum. Why should they be an example of anything else? Also, who says I'm angry? I was just laughing about Greg's last post. Maybe he's not even angry. That would be nice. Then we could just talk like human beings about ...
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Kensho and Satori
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14405
Re: Kensho and Satori
There are basically the kinds of energetic techniques I teach people, if anyone is interested in anything but arguing and being quite condescending. I can't help it if people sometimes get Kensho while they're doing the stuff I show them. Maybe the techniques contain some power independent of whatev...
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:15 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Kensho and Satori
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14405
Re: Kensho and Satori
I'm serious about the "Palzang" business. You're talking just like him. Look into it. I wouldn't mention it unless your wording was pretty much exactly his wording. What does that tell you? Wake up and stop being so aggressive. We're talking about matters that are interesting. Instead of ...
- Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:12 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Kensho and Satori
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14405
Re: Kensho and Satori
Instead of trying to shut me down, just go elsewhere! Asking somebody, that claims they are a teacher and charges $2000 to assist you achieve kensho/satori, for their qualifications is not an attempt to shut them down, it is a window of opportunity for them to prove their worth. The forum is under ...