Anacortes Washington (WA) Blog Directory
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- The Zen of Fashioning ‘A Whole Universe’ and ‘A Self’ by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 19, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog The Classic Zen Teachings activity awareness buddhism dogen mind prajna shobogenzo wisdom zen masters zen practice
In Shobogenzo, Uji (Existence-Time), Dogen raises some fascinating and evocative questions concerning our experience of Time. Check out the following example: Since we human beings are continually arranging the bits and pieces of what we experience i...
- Intellectual Understanding and Direct Experience by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 18, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog The Classic Zen Teachings buddha-nature doctrines mind seeing words zen buddhism
If you do not experience it directly, but simply cling to intellectual understanding, you will never achieve the peace of true liberation. You must let go of all ideas and notions about reality and spiritual practice, abandon all views of religion, a...
- The source of awareness by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 17, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog The Classic Zen Teachings awareness enlightenment meditation zen practice
If you want to awaken you must step back into the source of your own awareness. No matter what arises in your experience, follow it back into the source of your fundamental awareness. When seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, feeling, and th...
- Never apart from right here, right now by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 13, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog awareness hearing mind seeing true nature wisdom zen masters
I remember my teacher said: “Each one of you is the whole universe. Your seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking is the seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking of the whole universe which was never born and wil...
- Who is it that breathes? by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 12, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog The Classic Zen Teachings wisdom zen buddhism zen masters zen practice
Once, during a talk, Louie Wing said, “Do not fall into ideas that there is really a difference between delusion and awakening or between your ordinary mind and your true mind. No matter what you are doing or not doing, it all comes from the vast,...
- Mindfulness, True Mind, and Awakening by Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog on Nov 11, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog awakening ceasing conceptualization Mindfulness true mind true nature
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...
