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- Mindfulness, True Mind, and Awakening by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 11, 2009
Good friends, while there are no major difficulties in learning how to practice mindfulness, it does require genuine aspiration and sustained practice… Mindfulness only requires you to cease from habitual discrimination so your own luminous awa...
- The function of Zen practice by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 9, 2009
Awakening to the truth that “the many things actualize awareness of the self” is the function of Zen practice; your true nature is the true nature of the universe. The Buddhist formula for salvation, liberation, enlightenment, or any of the other...
- Hearing tile strike bamboo – Crack! Look, listen, smell, taste, touch, and think! by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 2, 2009
Look, listen, smell, taste, touch, and think! Right here, right now, your mind and body are shining forth as the vast, unnamable void. Continuously it flows forth as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, and thinking. If you want to attain cer...
- Post-Kensho Practice-Realization, Zen Mind to Mind Transmission by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 30, 2009
Once my capacity to read was activated, the First Ancestor gradually exposed me to more and more words in various contexts and higher degrees of difficulty. With his guidance, and my own continuous practice, my ability to read progressed. As my abili...
- Kensho is a wonderful milestone on the Zen path by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 23, 2009
Kensho is a wonderful milestone on your path, but it is easy to become attached to this experience. Attachment is a barrier to further progress and is a clear sign that you have stumbled past your realization. With kensho you realize that you have be...
- Actualized by the many things by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 21, 2009
Genjokoan says: To forget your self is to be actualized by the many things. A skier mustering whole body-and-mind, totally absorbed in the activity of skiing down a mountain, forgets his or her “self” and is actualized by the myriad dharmas (the...
- The First Moment of True Dharma Transmission – Genjokoan by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Oct 15, 2009
In Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Genjokoan we read: The first moment you seek the dharma you are far removed from the environs of dharma. The first moment of true dharma transmission your originally-true nature is realized. These two lines need to be rea...
