Grass Hut - 9 - Zen and Yogacara

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  • Jundo
    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
    • Apr 2006
    • 40614

    Grass Hut - 9 - Zen and Yogacara

    Hi,

    Let's read Chapter 6, Cultivating the Way, Inside and Out ... Zen and Yogacara.

    You may wish to have a look at our recommended "Nurturing Seeds" Practice, which is related to the observation of our thoughts and emotions as described here. Please give this a try when some negative thoughts and emotions arise during the week.

    Hi, Sometimes the simplest of practices can be most effective. The following is based on teachings by Thich Nhat Hahn as well as many others. It's roots stretch back to the very origins of Buddhism. It is a simple and common sense approach to changing how we think and feel ... realizing that our experience of life is always


    However, can one also come to see all the parties involved and the thoughts themselves as empty, dropping all sense of division and friction? What happens when the situation is free of inside outside and in between?

    Gassho, J

    SatToday
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE
  • Mp

    #2
    Wonderful, thank you Jundo. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    #sattoday

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    • Joyo

      #3
      Thank you very much, Jundo.

      Gassho,
      Joyo
      sat today

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      • Kyonin
        Dharma Transmitted Priest
        • Oct 2010
        • 6750

        #4
        Thank you Jundo.

        I'll read, sit and come back here.

        Gassho,

        Kyonin
        #SatToday
        Hondō Kyōnin
        奔道 協忍

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        • Risho
          Member
          • May 2010
          • 3178

          #5


          Gassho,

          Risho
          -sattoday
          Email: risho.treeleaf@gmail.com

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          • pinoybuddhist
            Member
            • Jun 2010
            • 462

            #6


            Raf
            sat today

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            • Kaishin
              Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 2322

              #7
              I love this line: "If we get stuck on 'in-between', we may realize our total connection to everything in the universe but forget to pick the kids up from school."

              -SatToday
              Thanks,
              Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
              Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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              • Roland
                Member
                • Mar 2014
                • 232

                #8
                Grass Hut - 9 - Zen and Yogacara

                Thank you Jundo, I had forgotten about the nurturing seeds. I sticked to a strategy of feeling negative emotions rise but realizing they are just clouds drifting away. I'll practise the Seeds again.

                Gassho
                Roland
                #SatToday

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                • Risho
                  Member
                  • May 2010
                  • 3178

                  #9
                  What happens feels like a cool breeze. The other day a woman confronted me for the collar I was using on my dog. I logically explained the choice. I could tell she probably meant well, but she was off-base. In any case, I felt the rage inside, and I literally just dropped it. Anger is addicting, and it's my gut reaction to engage someone and push their buttons. But by dropping that, it's a lot more relaxing and creates less harm.

                  Gassho,

                  Risho
                  -sattoday
                  Email: risho.treeleaf@gmail.com

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                  • Jundo
                    Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                    • Apr 2006
                    • 40614

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Roland
                    Thank you Jundo, I had forgotten about the nurturing seeds. I sticked to a strategy of feeling negative emotions rise but realizing they are just clouds drifting away. I'll practise the Seeds again.

                    Gassho
                    Roland
                    #SatToday
                    Sometimes let them drift away without grabbing, sometimes replace the seeds ... but always let them drift away without grabbing even when replacing. (A Koan. Only in Zen can we say and do such things )

                    Gassho, J

                    SatToday
                    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                    • Jika
                      Member
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 1337

                      #11
                      I'd be interested in reading the Yogacara poem by Vasubandhu Ben is talking about.
                      I can't find it, does anyone have a good source?
                      Thank you.

                      Gassho,
                      Danny
                      #sattoday
                      治 Ji
                      花 Ka

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                      • Jeremy

                        #12
                        Hi Everyone,


                        I got Ben's Grass Hut book a week or so ago and have been following the discussion, so would like to join in (-:


                        Today in the UK we're starting the day with the results of a national election and things didn't go the way I wanted. Feeling mildly depressed about this struck me as a good opportunity to plant some happiness / accepting seeds, and it's certainly changed my mood.


                        What I'm finding interesting is that at times like this, one wants to mull over the situation, and the emotion of mild depression seems to enable the mulling over. I'd say I can't really reflect on the election results without the presence of the emotion. Just an observation that I find interesting (-:


                        Gassho,
                        Jeremy


                        SatToday

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                        • Myosha
                          Member
                          • Mar 2013
                          • 2974

                          #13
                          Q1 - Yes

                          Q2 - Empty emptiness.


                          Gassho
                          Myosha sat today
                          "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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                          • Kaishin
                            Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 2322

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Danny B
                            I'd be interested in reading the Yogacara poem by Vasubandhu Ben is talking about.
                            I can't find it, does anyone have a good source?
                            Thank you.

                            Gassho,
                            Danny
                            #sattoday
                            I found a couple of different translations. No idea how accurate they are



                            1 Everything that is taken as a self; Everything that is taken as other: These are simply changing forms of consciousness. 2 Pure consciousness transforms itself Into three modes: Store consciousne…


                            -SatToday
                            Thanks,
                            Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
                            Please take this layman's words with a grain of salt.

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                            • Jika
                              Member
                              • Jun 2014
                              • 1337

                              #15
                              Thank you very much, Kaishin.

                              Gassho,
                              Danny
                              #sattoday
                              治 Ji
                              花 Ka

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