SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

[Doshin]

Thanks Jundo. And thanks Lisa and Danny for resurrecting these very good words.

Gassho

Randy
sattoday

[Jika]

[Byokan]

Thank you Jundo

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[ghop]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

Thank you Sensei -- your talk led me to reading this: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... ening.html
and in turn this: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html

It came in a time that my faith in Buddha's awakening, specifically that he awakened to the truth of all things, is being sorely worked over in my thoughts ...

chugai,

i need this

thanks

gassho
Greg

[Heisoku]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

Thankyou Jundo and all.

[Taigu]

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Andy, this quote of Daido is just wonderful.
We could All work in this direction. There is nt any other anyway.

Gassho

Taigu

[Risho]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

Gassho,

Risho

[Myoku]

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Thank you Andy,
I somewhat believe its not only the cutting edge of koan practice,
but also the cutting edge of shikantaza practice.
_()_
Peter

[andyZ]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

I'd like to post an excerpt of one of Daido Roshi's dharma talks that deal with the subject of doubt. Although he speaks about it in context of koan practice I think it's still applicable here.

Most of the work [in Zen practice] takes place while sitting zazen, because in reality there's nothing anyone can give us. There's nothing that we lack. Each one of us is perfect and complete. That's why it is said that there are no Zen teachers and nothing to teach. But this truth must be realized by each one of us. Great faith, great doubt, and great determination are three essentials for that realization. It is a boundless faith in oneself and in the ability to realize oneself and make oneself free, and a deep and penetrating doubt which ask: Who am I? What is life? What is truth? What is God? What is reality? This great faith and great doubt are in dynamic tension with each other, and work to provide the real cutting edge of koan practice*. When great faith and great doubt are also accompanied by great determination (the determination of "Seven times knocked down, eight times up"), we have at our disposal the power necessary to break through our delusive way of thinking and realize the full potential of our lives.

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Buddhis ... Doubt.aspx

[Jundo]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Doubt Faith

One can say that doubt is "seen through and through" although it arises, just as we see though all obstructions.

[Myoku]

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Gassho Jundo,
Peter

[Dosho]

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Jundo,

I have found myself feeling like this of late, so thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.

And so I just go sit.

Deep bows.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Jiken]

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Thanks Jundo

[Kyonin]

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Thank you Jundo Sensei.

You nailed the way I sometimes feel. Mind to crowded to concentrate, but I just sit with what is.

[Myozan Kodo]

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Thank you Jundo. I hope you and your family have a very enjoyable holiday.
Gassho