From shokai.blogspot.com
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Dogen instructed, Students of the Way, do not learn the buddha-dharma for the sake of your own egos. Learn the buddha-dharma only for the sake of the buddha-dharma. The most effective way for doing this is to completely throw away your body and mind leaving nothing, and dedicating yourselves to the great ocean of the buddha-dharma. Then, without being concerned about right and wrong, without clinging to your own views, even if it is difficult...
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Here's a question that came up in the comments to the last post:
One aspect of Zen meditation I could not yet understand is why there is no metta meditation. In the Triratna tradition - and I suppose in most other Tibetan meditation traditions also- amongst other things there is like mindfulness of the breath meditation also the metta bhavana; a practice I have done on some occassions and also found it helpful to develop compassion. Why...
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There were several books I liked this year that I expected to like (such as Murakami's 1Q84), but this book came out of nowhere and absolutely floored me. Zazen is a brutally honest story about the heartbreak that follows the failure of idealism. However, don't be put off by that description, as there is an [...]
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From powells.com
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I said in the last post that learning doctine without practice is unhelpful. What about practice without doctrine?
In the West, often Buddhist meditation is separated from Buddhism and promoted for its therapeutic more than spiritual value. Today, all kinds of people are doing zazen or vipassana without bothering with the rest of Buddhism. I'm okay with that, by the way, as long as undiluted Buddhism remains available for those who want to...
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Zazen Suite is a combination Meditation Timer and Mindfulness Bell. Meditate on the go with an app so beautiful and easy to use that you'll never need another. Features of the Meditation Timer are: - Start delay - Pause/Continue. - 5 min adjustable timer ...
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