SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming - (II)

[gtsalazar]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home

So glad your little girl is feeling better and home again

[Nindo]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home

Thank you.
Sad .. happy .. it's a dance.

Spent Saturday night holding and massaging my man through a panic attack. I could have been so resentful, about not going out, about having cooked a meal that ended up in a bucket... but it was just as it was, just OK, just going through this together. I often want to run and hide when he is suffering, but this time I managed to just be present, no thoughts, no agenda, tending to what was needed. I think it made a difference for both of us. The morning after I started thinking and wishing for a "normal" life (whatever that is) while at the same time remaining at some distance to my thoughts, knowing that if I go down that path it'll change nothing and just make me unhappy. He is feeling slightly better this morning. He had breakfast and went out to get groceries. He liked the jacket I bought him that he didn't even look at yesterday. It's just as it is. We've been dancing for 20 years together this month. We'll go on dancing.

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[Shokai]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home

Do ittashimashite _/_

[Kaishin]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in Hospital

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[Kaishin]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home

Take good care

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[keniz138]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home

[Dosho]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen is SO OLD!

Jundo and Sada,

Thank you for your teachings. Much wisdom and a needed smile.

She's so cute!

Gassho,
Dosho

[Risho]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in Hospital

Gassho,

Risho

[Jundo]

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

We close this series on Master Seng-ts'an's XIN XIN MING ... FAITH IN MIND ... a simple, but subtle recipe ...

Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion,
both movement and rest disappear.
When such dualities cease to exist
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate finality
no law or description applies.

For the unified mind in accord with the Way
all self-centered straining ceases.
Doubts and irresolution's vanish
and life in true faith is possible.
With a single stroke we are freed from bondage;
nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.
All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,
with no exertion of the mind's power.
Here thought, feeling, knowledge, and imagination
are of no value.
In this world of Suchness
there is neither self nor other-than-self

To come directly into harmony with this reality
just simply say when doubt arises, 'Not two.'
In this 'no two' nothing is separate,
nothing excluded.
No matter when or where,
enlightenment means entering this truth.
And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space;
in it a single thought is ten thousand years.

Emptiness here, Emptiness there,
but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.
Infinitely large and infinitely small;
no difference, for definitions have vanished
and no boundaries are seen.
So too with Being
and non-Being.
Don't waste time in doubts and arguments
that have nothing to do with this.

One thing, all things:
move among and intermingle, without distinction.
To live in this realization
is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.
To live in this faith is the road to non-duality,
Because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

Words! The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is
.......................... no yesterday
.......................... no tomorrow
.......................... no today.

... taking us back to the start ...

The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Today's talk is a little longer than usual, as it was part of our monthly Zazenkai at Treeleaf. Please note that there is no video in one portion due to "technical non-problems".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjgcEsnMz0M

[Jundo]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

As we had some video "non-difficulties" today, this is a good place to mention and publicly thank the benefactor (who requests to be anonymous) who has donated a state-of-the-art 'hi-def' web cam and laptop for use in our Zazenkai netcasts! Those should arrive here and be up and running in the coming weeks.

We bent the rules on donations to Treeleaf because of this very necessary offer of equipment so central to this place (as today shows) and some special circumstances I cannot mention. Hopefully, I will have the skills to run it all correctly when it comes.

Nine Bows.

Jundo

[Omoi Otoshi]

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

Thank you Jundo,
That was a wonderful talk!

Right now in my life there are so many things people want me to do, so many impossible expectations, so many things to keep track of and so many responsabilities. It felt as if I needed that reminder. Thanks again.

/Pontus

[ghop]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

Much thanks.

gassho
Greg

[Taigu]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

That's a wonderful news.

Thank you.


gassho

T.

[pinoybuddhist]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

Won't be sitting with the recorded zazenkai until Tuesday but I sat with this talk this morning. Thanks for this. "Go with the flowing, be the flowing..." Yes indeed 8)

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Rafael

[Marek]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality

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