The 99th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

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  • Shokai
    Treeleaf Priest
    • Mar 2009
    • 6394

    The 99th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

    Gate Ninety-nine
    Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.

    Stillness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for it realizes, and is replete with, the samādhi of the Tathāgata.

    Stillness : A deeper awareness of the Dharma.

    By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.

    Koan:
    "When you are under stress, your body's natural repair mechanisms are disabled. When you can cultivate silence and stillness, clarity develops in your mind and has a settling effect. Your body is not independent of your brain, so it will relax as well."
    - Dennis Buttimer, Piedmont.org; link here

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    Most note worthy replies :
    Approaching dhyāna
    It dances from my grasp
    Even as the drops fall. But
    This is it, this moment, the now
    Do not waste it.


    As the dust settles
    Vision clears
    Revealing all truths


    合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
    stlah
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/
  • Nengyoku
    Member
    • Jun 2021
    • 536

    #2
    Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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    • aprapti
      Member
      • Jun 2017
      • 889

      #3

      hobo kore dojo / 歩歩是道場 / step, step, there is my place of practice

      Aprāpti (अप्राप्ति) non-attainment

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      • Nengyoku
        Member
        • Jun 2021
        • 536

        #4
        The semantic field of Tibetan shi and Sanskrit shama is "pacification", "the slowing or cooling down", "rest". The semantic field of Tibetan né is "to abide or remain" and this is cognate or equivalent with the final syllable of the Sanskrit, thā.

        -Wikipedia page for Samatha, the pali term for Stillness
        How appropriate. To abide in resting. To act in accordance with slowing down.
        When I think of stillness I think of tranquility, even to a point of inaction.
        But this would suggest instead that your action is in accordance with things as it is.
        It reminds me of our Three refuges.

        I take refuge in the Buddha.
        I take refuge in the Dharma.
        I take refuge in the Sangha.
        And a natural extension of that is acting in accordance with this moment as it is.
        Thank you friends.

        When I take refuge in this world
        And in the people in it
        How could my actions ever not accord?

        Gassho,
        Nengyoku
        Sat
        Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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        • Tairin
          Member
          • Feb 2016
          • 2822

          #5


          Tairin
          Sat today and lah
          泰林 - Tai Rin - Peaceful Woods

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          • Anchi
            Member
            • Sep 2015
            • 556

            #6
            Life itself is the only teacher.
            一 Joko Beck


            STLah
            安知 Anchi

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            • Myo Shin
              Member
              • Aug 2021
              • 49

              #7

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