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

[Guest]

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Exciting and OUCH...
I hope this all works out for you(s)!!
Your patience in this ongoing waiting has been an inspiration. Thank you for your teaching on this.

Gassho
Shohei

[Shugen]

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Good Luck and Thank You,

Ron

[Guest]

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Those are wonderful news Jundo.
We have also started the paperwork to adopt a child -our second one- and considering how slow these processes are I'll become a father again in four or five years, so close to fifty too. We'll have to exchange notes on how to cope with it!

Deep gassho

RImon

[Guest]

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Thank you for this! I needed to hear this. Good luck with your hopefully soon to be daughter

I've been struggling with Ango this year.. I knew I would, I hold my preferences very, very closely. Sometimes not so much. Sometimes practice comes easily, but other times, it is a struggle. On one hand I want to fight for what I want. Then it's easy to pervert this teaching into just laying back and giving up... but it's the clarity of this teaching that's cutting through that saying "adjust to reality and keep pushing on". Easier said than done. Sometimes my ego just wants to sit in a corner and yell if it doesn't get what it wants.

But the key is to never give up. That's what keeps me coming back. So many people can start, but there are few finishers, not that this ever ends (well while we are living I suppose )

Gassho,

Risho

[Guest]

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Keep on going Risho, its all preactice. Seeing the struggle, noticing what we do, why we do what we do, thats all wonderful practice. And just as you say, return to the path, walk with all your fellow treeleafers...
Gassho
Peter

[Shokai]

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[Guest]

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I've been struggling with Ango this year.. I knew I would,

Struggling right along with you! But as Jundo told me recently, if it isn't a struggle then your Ango goals are too easy

[Guest]

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Thanks guys

[Guest]

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Hope everything works out soon Jundo. That room deserves to be filled with the laughter of a child not boxes!!

Gassho,
John

[Jundo]

SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming - (VI) - Armchair Buddha

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We encounter again the instruction neither to become entangled in circumstances, nor fall into emptiness ... neither remaining in one extreme or the other, finding that which embraces and expresses both.

But it is not something merely to talk or philosophize about experiencing life this way, like some "ARMCHAIR BUDDHA". Rather, it is to pierce the wholeness of Zazen, carve such into one's bones, bring such to life in this ordinary life.

Thus, the Xin Xin Ming tells us ...


The more you talk and think about it,
the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking,
and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
To return to the root [of emptiness] is to find the meaning,
but to pursue appearances is to miss the source.
At the moment of inner enlightenment
there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.
The changes that appear to occur in the empty world
we call real only because of our ignorance.


The passage closes with a simple reminder that finding truth is not a matter of searching for truth. Rather ... dropping opinions, preferences, aversions and attractions ... neither caught in circumstances nor in emptiness, but knowing the wholeness of one as the other ... Truth is found.



Do not search for the truth;
only cease to cherish opinions.



D.T. Suzuki translates and expresses the wordless words of the passage this way:

Wordiness and intellection –
The more with them the further astray we go;
Away therefore with wordiness and intellection,
And there is no place where we cannot pass freely.
When we return to the root, we gain the meaning;
When we pursue external objects, we lose the reason.
The moment we are enlightened within,
We go beyond the voidness of a world confronting us.
Transformations going on in an empty world which confronts us,
Appear real all because of Ignorance:
Try not to seek after the true,
Only cease to cherish opinions.

Today’s Sit-A-Long video follows at this link. Remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 15 to 35 minutes is recommended

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

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[Guest]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming - (VI) - Armchair Buddha

Thankn you Jundo.

Gassho,

Matt

[Guest]

Re: SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming - (VI) - Armchair Buddha

Hi Jundo!

Couldn't thank you for you teachings on this beautiful Chan classic... more than ever actual and transcending ideas, schools and even Buddhas! :wink:

Thank you!
gassho,
Jinyu

[Guest]

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Love the Yogi Berra line. So we're like takin Yogi in the ancient Indian sage sense, right?
Gassho, with thanks for the teachings.
Soen

[Guest]

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Thank you Jundo. And thank you to your wife for her help. Breaks my heart to hear about those school children.

Gassho,

Shawn

[Guest]

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Jen