Shikantaza and the Morning Star

[joshr]

I don’t know if I can really explain what an incredible relief this practice has been after a decade of the contrived complexities of Vajrayana.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Gassho,
Josh

Sat this morning

[Jundo]

I don’t know if I can really explain what an incredible relief this practice has been after a decade of the contrived complexities of Vajrayana.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Gassho,
Josh

Sat this morning

You might appreciate our Zazenkai theme today ...

June 16th-107th Treeleaf Weekly Zazenkai - I Don't Believe In Buddha! ...

... That's why I believe in Buddha! ...

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?21607-June-16th-107th-Treeleaf-Weekly-Zazenkai-I-Don-t-Believe-In-Buddha%21

Gassho, J

stlah

PS - Josh, would you mind to put a human face picture to accompany your posts? It helps keep things a bit warmer and more human around here. Thank you.

https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?12837-Often-Asked-How-to-Add-an-Avatar-Photo

[Chikyou]

Such a beautiful teaching. I am starting to experience this personally after about a year of daily sitting; the judging voice in my head is gone, (I don't know when it left, I just noticed its absence one day) and when I sit, I feel like I've come home.

Gassho,
SatLah
Kelly

[joshr]

PS - Josh, would you mind to put a human face picture to accompany your posts? It helps keep things a bit warmer and more human around here. Thank you.

Thanks for kicking me in the pants to put up a picture. Also, FWIW, the default was set such that I couldn't see other people's avatars, so I didn't know that was a thing. OMG, what a difference!

Gassho,
Joshua

Sat This Morning

[Bion]

Thanks for kicking me in the pants to put up a picture. Also, FWIW, the default was set such that I couldn't see other people's avatars, so I didn't know that was a thing. OMG, what a difference!

Ha!!! We all have faces now! [emoji1]

[emoji1374] Sat Today

[j.champagne]

Poignant reminder. Thank you, Jundo.

Jason
STLah

[Jundo]

I am going to "bump" this, just because it is good to bump from time to time.

Gassho, Jundo

stlah

[Kaitan]

stlah, Kaitan

[Shujin]

Brilliant. I was reminded of a story in Shobogenzo Komyo:


The Tang Emperor Xianzong requested someone to bring the buddha’s relics from Famen Temple to the palace for making offerings to them. On that occasion, in the night, people saw the radiant light. The emperor was greatly delighted.

In the early morning of the next day all his retainers presented letters of congratulation saying, “It is the response of the sacred to His Majesty’s sacred virtue.”

At the time, there was a minister whose name was Hanyu Wengong. He had studied buddha dharma at the end of the seat of a buddha-ancestor. Wengong alone did not write a letter of congratulation.

Emperor Xianzong asked, “All the other retainers have presented letters of congratulation. Why do you not present a letter of congratulation?”

Wengong answered, “Your humble retainer has taken a look at a Buddhist text. It is said that the buddha light is not blue, yellow, red, or white. The light we had this time is the radiant light of the dragon-gods as the sign of their protection.”

The Emperor asked, “What is the buddha-light like?”

Wengong did not answer.

[Jundo]

The Emperor asked, “What is the buddha-light like?”

Wengong did not answer.

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[Doshin]

Bumping was a good thing.

Doshin
Stlah

[Houzan]

[emoji120]
Being no one. Going nowhere. Nothing to achieve. This is it. I have arrived.

Gassho, Hōzan
Satlah

[Jenny A]

Thank you.

Gassho,
Jenny
sat today

[Jundo]

[emoji120]
Being no one. Going nowhere. Nothing to achieve. This is it. I have arrived.

Gassho, Hōzan
Satlah

Excellent!

Now keep going, head in good directions, live this life!

Gassho, J

stlah

[Jundo]

Shohaku Okamura has a great commentary on Zazenshin, which I think makes a good "companion piece" to your commentary here:

https://buddhismnow.com/2014/10/22/zazenshin-acupuncture-needle-of-zazen-shohaku-okumura/

Lovely!

Gassho, J

stlah