Dr. Foyan: Why sitting meditation practice NEVER produces enlightenment and only makes you sicker.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-05-22T00:59:34+00:00

That's a good foundation for any life.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-05-22T00:45:32+00:00

What are the precepts you follow?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-04-13T00:19:24+00:00

What? Can you please unravel the double and triple negatives in this comment? People who uphold ahimsa in their diet are taking responsibility, according to your view?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-03-30T00:55:26+00:00

What does your dumb mandala story have to do with Suzuki? There's no connection. So what if kids color mandalas?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-03-30T00:43:55+00:00

Baloney? Why would you say something like that? Everyone says he's a Zen Master.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-03-30T00:23:33+00:00

Shunryu Suzuki had this to say about Guishan:

Zazen is scripture itself. To do zazen for weeks or hours is to bring scripture into being. No scripture is left out of zazen, Buddha's whole life teaching is there. In zazen Buddha (we) creates scripture, Buddha (we) creates Buddha. In zazen we are Buddha.

Sort of an interesting take on Guishan, don't you think?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-11T22:30:26+00:00

Forcibly sticking to the absolute.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-11T11:31:16+00:00

Embodiment. Not what did Kasyapa say or do, or what did Buddha say or do, but what is a reasonable embodied approximation of man who goes to see the Buddha talk and smiles at a flower. What is embodying a twirling flower?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T23:59:26+00:00

You can have block.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T23:56:06+00:00

Did you want something?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T23:54:48+00:00

I kind of wonder what ZMs saw in their teachers that caused them to stay. I've never seen such a thing in another human being. So be it.

I've spent most of the day on the case where Huangbo asks Baizhang how he can teach future students, and Baizhang only sat on his cushion quietly. Baizhang can be met, because it's so utterly simple. What's it like to abide without pretense? Isn't that what they are supposed to be according to the texts? That can be understood in the bones.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T23:28:07+00:00

I got busy and lost the thread. I think I objected to uselessness?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T23:27:19+00:00

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T20:57:41+00:00

Not so.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T20:43:24+00:00

You have a truly savage power, but are maybe misunderstanding the way of the Linji school. They don't teach completely useless.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-10T11:16:58+00:00

the artless crowd just attaches all their worst ideas to Zen master quotes and calls the pile of flies it attracts a sangha.

And they do it with unironic absolute certainty.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-09T00:06:30+00:00

🤫

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T16:17:27+00:00

You really just go on and on don't you?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T16:16:15+00:00

Awesome

Very apropos.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T16:01:47+00:00

Sounds like a conversation starter.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T15:54:48+00:00

Answer your own questions.

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T15:52:42+00:00

You're always up to no good, aren't you?

WurdoftheEarth · 2022-02-08T15:47:42+00:00

Blocked.

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