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- Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:41 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
On the topic of common sense, which I will grant is open to a number of interpretations... Common sense suggests we not step in dog shit on the sidewalk in front of us. But it also strikes me as common sensical to observe, for example, that all intellectual, emotional and belief structures exist in ...
- Wed Sep 12, 2012 2:35 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
Intellectually, maybe this is OK.selflesness, which is a basis of zen
Otherwise, it is like feeding rat poison to a beloved child.
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:44 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
After a number of decades of practice, this makes no sense to me except perhaps in some fairy-tale intellectual realm.zen has nothing to do with ''common sense''
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:33 am
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
Matylda -- Albert Camus once wrote, approximately, "Some people climb onto the cross in order to be seen from a greater distance." In nine years under Shimano's well-dressed shadow, I learned quite a lot ... some of it good, most of it not so good. I learned, for example, that it is not OK...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:44 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: "A Modern Monk's Tale"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1297
"A Modern Monk's Tale"
Words stick in my throat when I try to describe the power I found in "A Modern Monk's Tale" by John Cavanagh, a former Trappist monk who tried, like so many before and after him, to bring clerical misdeeds to his superiors' attention ... and, like so many before and after him, was told to ...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:14 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
As regards the OP, I suggest at least taking a look at The Shimano Archive . Lineage depends on the credulity of the aspirant, but the archive may provide some assistance in gauging the environment. :) i had a glimpse of those archives... well the title is already something to think about... one ma...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:36 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18874
Re: Is Eido Tai Shimano's lineage legitimate?
As regards the OP, I suggest at least taking a look at The Shimano Archive. Lineage depends on the credulity of the aspirant, but the archive may provide some assistance in gauging the environment.
- Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: with thanks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1748
with thanks
Just wanted to say thanks to those who took the time and made the effort to create Dharma Wheel. It was a big help and a useful resource that now seems to have become largely a blog.
Nevertheless, I am grateful to those who made the effort.
Gassho.
Nevertheless, I am grateful to those who made the effort.
Gassho.
- Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:28 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: The Search for a Teacher...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4784
Re: The Search for a Teacher...
Saddles are wonderful, as they point out in Texas. But there is always the matter of the horse that goes under them. I guess if we follow the horseshit, we may luck out.
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:05 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: The Search for a Teacher...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4784
Re: The Search for a Teacher...
I suppose then that the only thing left to do, whether the teachers are good or bad, is to find out exactly what the Dharmakaya might be and then actualize it. Anything less would be nonsense, I imagine.
- Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:23 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: The Search for a Teacher...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4784
Re: The Search for a Teacher...
Dear Sraddha -- No one can teach Buddhism ... even those who talk day and night, page after page, and fill the air with more air.
Bad teachers, good teachers ... who in their right mind would distinguish this way? Just find a teacher who suits you and stop filling the air with air.
Bad teachers, good teachers ... who in their right mind would distinguish this way? Just find a teacher who suits you and stop filling the air with air.
- Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:04 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: What constitutes bodhisattva practice in daily life?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5270
Re: What constitutes bodhisattva practice in daily life?
My vote:
Pay attention and take responsibility and the bodhisattvas will become apparent.
Pay attention and take responsibility and the bodhisattvas will become apparent.
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Buddha's non-Buddhist teachings!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4720
Re: Buddha's non-Buddhist teachings!
Hi sraddha -- Teachings of whatever sort have at least a couple of dimensions: 1. The dimension that points out a direction and, perhaps, expands on the intellectual or heart-felt understanding of that direction. It is in this realm that people can wax 'ecumenical' or find meanings that overlap and ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:40 pm
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Is breathing meditation alone good?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3974
Re: Is breathing meditation alone good?
I imagine that you have to breathe even when you're sick. If you weren't breathing, you'd be dead and how could you possibly know you were sick?
- Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:52 am
- Forum: Meditation
- Topic: Is breathing meditation alone good?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3974
Re: Is breathing meditation alone good?
I don't know much about the long names, but I favor the breath. It is intimate and inescapable and without it all the long names would disappear in a nanosecond. Since what is sought is intimate and inescapable, the breath is a good point of focus. There is no way to lie about or be wise about the b...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:31 pm
- Forum: Sūtra Studies
- Topic: Historicity of Mahayana Sutras -- Does it matter?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 19745
Re: Historicity of Mahayana Sutras -- Does it matter?
Strictly personal (I'll leave the debates to others): As a starting point, I think historicity and the use of words like "authentic" is probably a good support in practice. But as practice progresses and experience builds, I think the important part is what works ... what you are really wi...
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:39 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: New Richard Gombrich book - What the Buddha Thought
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3254
Re: New Richard Gombrich book - What the Buddha Thought
How in heaven's name could anyone know what the Buddha thought when they can't even know what their dearest friends think?
Sorry ... just a little befuddled by the title.
Sorry ... just a little befuddled by the title.
- Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:15 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Taking care of your mental health
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1991
Re: Taking care of your mental health
Hi retro -- As you say, there are a zillion ramifications and entry points on "mental health" and Buddhist practice and I can't pretend to know how to cover all the bases. Still, my two cents .... I had a Zen teacher once, a man I came to distrust deeply, who said, "In order to practi...
- Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:38 pm
- Forum: Prayers and Aspirations
- Topic: This life is so precious
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7432
Re: This life is so precious
This life is so wonderfully precious.
That is why we must learn to give it up.
That is why we must learn to give it up.
Re: The Laity
Since I didn't live in that time, I have no way to assess the story, although I admit it makes me sad to think that teachings would be withheld. Even if the imagined secrets of Buddhism were told, what could that possibly tell anyone? No disrespect intended: I just have a hard time seeing how the es...