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怠努 (Tai Do) - Lazy Effort
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怠努 (Tai Do) - Lazy Effort
(also known as Mateus)
禅戒一如 (Zen Kai Ichi Nyo) - Zazen and the Precepts are One!Comment
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My son and I at The Western Wall, Jerusalem.
Gassho, Jishin, ST, LAHComment
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Street market before Shabbat in Jerusalem.
Gassho, Jishin, ST, LAHComment
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"Stepping back with open hands, is thoroughly comprehending life and death. Immediately you can sparkle and respond to the world." - HongzhiComment
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Shalom shalom!
Gassho, Jishin, ST, LAHComment
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Shabbat Shalom, Jishin. [emoji953][emoji1643][emoji485]
Gassho2, meian
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visiting Unsui
Nothing I say is a teaching, it's just my own opinion.Comment
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Shabbat Shalom Meian!
Gassho, Jishin, ST, LAHComment
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I thought I'd share some photos from some Buddhist temples and areas near me or that I've visited this year.
First ones are near where I live.
These ones are from a place called Sanxi, which is a village more known for it's traditional dragon boat festival. But just behind in the hills there's a really cool area with lots of arhats carved in the rocks. When you follow them up the hill, it takes you to a big Buddha statue at the top and there's some other statues and a small temple there. In a hill next to this, there's also a little temple that is overseen by a white Buddha statue.
Below is from a bigger temple near me called Longquan Chan Temple, which is know for it's links with the Chan Master Baizhang Huaihai (from the Hongzhou School). His statue is in one of the photos. Apparently this was his first temple he went to as he born in the local area. I mentioned this temple in a thread about my practice (or lack of) in China.
慧禅 | Huìchán | RossComment
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The photos below are from when I visited Huangmei (a town that calls itself the home of Zen), where the fourth and fifth patriarch temples are located. I decided to visit after reading 'Zen Baggage' as I realised that this place is part of the same 'city' (maybe you'd call it a prefecture) as my wife is from, Huanggang (although it's geographically a big area, so only close in China terms).
I stayed in a hotel near the Fifth Patriarch Temple, which had a nice walk straight from the hotel on an old footpath. There were a few modern looking, new buildings as well as the older temple further up. Inside the new exbhition hall, there was a lot of information about the history of the temple.
Unfortunately, the Fourth Patriarch Temple, was going through some reconstruction but it was really interesting to see it's pride it had in spreading Chan/Zen to other regions. There were loads of photos of foreigners on the walls (I've never seen that in a temple in China before), including Red Pine himself (quite a few times...). Due to the summer heat and having to catch a train, I didn't explore the surrounding areas of the main temple, which is supposed to be quite nice. I'm sure I'll have a chance to visit again though.
Gassho
Ross
stlah慧禅 | Huìchán | RossComment
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Lovely, Ross.
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For our dear friends, may we yet, I did 4 years hope, and yet be.
Gassho
Tai Shi. sat/lah
Deep Bows.Last edited by Tai Shi; 07-20-2023, 02:25 PM.Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive,
for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆Comment
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Please tell me who the fourth Patriarch is? Who had such a beautiful temple dedicated to him and why? What did he do to merit such architecture, or was he a mental apparition as in the Greek and Roman Gods, and was he much like most and many Gods, a simple reference to wild beautiful things, and/ or to forces we do not understand: life and death, All the all planets. all stars and origins and of the origin of life, and the universe and evidently many illnesses human and otherwise. Why such pictures?
sat/lah/Gassho
Deep bowsPeaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆Comment
Or, at least a prophet or something.
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