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  • Rich
    Member
    • Apr 2009
    • 2615

    #31
    Re: behind the obvious

    Originally posted by disastermouse
    Originally posted by Rich
    Originally posted by disastermouse

    This is gonna sound like a kid's question, but why make anything?

    Chet
    Did you mean making something as in doing or making something with your mind?
    I meant that refuge in ritual forms, thinking they are more directly an expression of Buddha or dharma than mundane action or non-action - well, that could be the cancer that's killing /z/.

    Avoidance of ritual probably ain't too healthy either though, I guess.

    As always, JMHO, YMMV, no disrespect intended.

    Chet
    It's the thinking that makes them different and yet we all have a little cancer so we just try to maintain some kind of balance so the cancer doesn't take over.
    _/_
    Rich
    MUHYO
    無 (MU, Emptiness) and 氷 (HYO, Ice) ... Emptiness Ice ...

    https://instagram.com/notmovingmind

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    • Shokai
      Dharma Transmitted Priest
      • Mar 2009
      • 6435

      #32
      Re: behind the obvious

      Thank you all. I saw the moon rise last evening. A waning moon, five days after fullness approaching its last quarter, rising up in the southeast; lying on it's back as if holding the cares of the world; a Bodhisattva! This morning's temperature is a bone-chilling -18ºC. As I let the dog out at 4:30, I was compelled to step out onto the deck clad only in pajamas and in bare feet, to gaze up at the same moon high in the sky, flooding the yard with its silver light. Just now, three hours later it struck me as I read Nigel's post, body and mind fall away while experiencing the magic of the universe, to endure the extreme conditions of nature. Fifteen years ago, seated bare foot in Shoukoji doing zazen, warmed only by a very small oil heater, I recall a similar realization. :lol:
      合掌,生開
      gassho, Shokai

      仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

      "Open to life in a benevolent way"

      https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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      • Heisoku
        Member
        • Jun 2010
        • 1338

        #33
        Re: behind the obvious

        Shokai I wrote the post after reading this from Keizan's Denkoroku.

        Mind's activity smoothly rolling on is the form the mind takes;
        How many times has the self appeared with a different face!
        (p106)

        I don't know what happened but something fell away and I have been in joyous calm state ever since... even through 1 hour of zazen!
        Perhaps I let the blanket slip!
        Where else could Keizan jam with Ryokan jam with Taigu jam with all of us!!!?
        Deep bows to everyone at Treeleaf!!

        Now to make lunch.
        Heisoku 平 息
        Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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        • Shokai
          Dharma Transmitted Priest
          • Mar 2009
          • 6435

          #34
          Re: behind the obvious

          Heisoku, awesome, thank you for the source
          合掌,生開
          gassho, Shokai

          仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

          "Open to life in a benevolent way"

          https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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          • disastermouse

            #35
            Re: behind the obvious

            Originally posted by Rich
            Originally posted by disastermouse

            I meant that refuge in ritual forms, thinking they are more directly an expression of Buddha or dharma than mundane action or non-action - well, that could be the cancer that's killing /z/.

            Avoidance of ritual probably ain't too healthy either though, I guess.

            As always, JMHO, YMMV, no disrespect intended.

            Chet
            It's the thinking that makes them different and yet we all have a little cancer so we just try to maintain some kind of balance so the cancer doesn't take over.
            Yes.

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            • Heisoku
              Member
              • Jun 2010
              • 1338

              #36
              Re: behind the obvious

              Thank you Shokai...looks as though we both caught a vibe!
              Heisoku 平 息
              Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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              • Shokai
                Dharma Transmitted Priest
                • Mar 2009
                • 6435

                #37
                Re: behind the obvious

                Nigel;

                Is that you or me in this vid https://<div class="videocontainer w... </a> </div>
                合掌,生開
                gassho, Shokai

                仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

                "Open to life in a benevolent way"

                https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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                • Heisoku
                  Member
                  • Jun 2010
                  • 1338

                  #38
                  Re: behind the obvious

                  Wasn't me ...I pearl jammed!!!

                  Cool tubes dude!!!
                  Heisoku 平 息
                  Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. (Basho)

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                  • Onshin
                    Member
                    • Jul 2010
                    • 462

                    #39
                    Re: behind the obvious

                    Taigu wrote:
                    Making a kesa is a full expression of what is said to be : bonno soku bodai, illusions become awkening. Rags become kesa.
                    And as such I look forward very much to sewing a Kesa.

                    Gassho

                    Joe
                    &#34;This traceless enlightenment continues endlessly&#34; (Dogen Zenji)

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