Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog
Blog URL http://flatbedsutra.com/flatbedsutrazenblogger/
Located Anacortes, Washington USA
Tags Zen Buddhism, Zen, enlightenment, Buddhism, books reviews, meditation, zazen, dogen, teachings
Online Zen and Buddhist information, resources, and discussion, including Zen and Buddhist book reviews, online Zen texts, classic and contemporary zen teachings and meditation (zazen) guides.
Latest Blog Posts
- The Zen of Fashioning ‘A Whole Universe’ and ‘A Self’ 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 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 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 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? 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 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...
- The function of Zen practice on Nov 9, 2009 in Flatbed Sutra Zen Blog The Classic Zen Teachings awakening awareness true nature zen buddhism zen practice
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...
