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  • Myozan Kodo
    Friend of Treeleaf
    • May 2010
    • 1901

    #16
    Re: Book of equanimity

    Ready!

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    • Yugen

      #17
      Re: Book of equanimity

      I accept the invitation, Thank you.

      Gassho,
      Yugen

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      • Jundo
        Treeleaf Founder and Priest
        • Apr 2006
        • 39964

        #18
        Re: Book of equanimity

        Originally posted by andyZ
        I was going to ask in another thread what is the use of just reading and discussing a koan?…Thank you Taigu for telling us that it's not going to be just a discussion. I heard that sometimes it takes years for a student to crack a koan. Got my book in the mail today. This one has 100 of them
        If one thinks a reading is just words, and a discussion is just chewing the fat ... then one misses the sharp point that cuts through delusion. Neither a matter of words or silence ... but the Silence that Sings through the Heart of Life.

        Nor is it a puzzle to crack, or weird gestures in the air, mysterious words and actions or MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOing like an old cow (though one certainly can MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO if one's heart needs to) ...

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjyqGnWGftE&feature=related[/video]] ... re=related

        Let's see how it goes, don't jump to assumptions and conclusions about how it is supposed to be or the ways a Koan should be handled.

        Koans are "cracked" in 1000 instants, practiced for life.

        Gassho, J
        ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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        • Rimon
          Member
          • May 2010
          • 309

          #19
          Re: Book of equanimity

          Me joins too.

          Gassho

          Rimon
          Rimon Barcelona, Spain
          "Practice and the goal of practice are identical." [i:auj57aui]John Daido Loori[/i:auj57aui]

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          • Taigu
            Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
            • Aug 2008
            • 2710

            #20
            Re: Book of equanimity

            Hi everybody,

            People that are familiar with my one to one teaching know that I don't act like a rinzai roshi, shout or do mysterious things. On top of that, I am not qualified to guide anybody in koan study, having no experience of doing it myself. So...What's the heck?!!!
            We are not going to mimick or copy the Rinzai way. We are going to see how clearly the case is living in our life, how dark or bright it is. How do we manifest our understanding in a dynamic way bypassing the intellectual way to cuts one into two. So it is not going to be about philosophy, theory, esoteric teachings...

            Because the answer is overwhelmingly enthusiastic and my time is extremely limited, I am going to have to sort things out, do a lot of planning and give priority to my closest students. One thing for sure, I won t put up anymore with people telling me they will make it and finding myself on the other side of the globe wasting the freetime I have with a ghost. I might have to start the process in three months time when loosing a big chunck of my workload, I shall have more time.

            Thank you all.


            gassho



            Taigu

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            • Seiryu
              Member
              • Sep 2010
              • 620

              #21
              Re: Book of equanimity

              sounds like a good idea to me...
              Humbly,
              清竜 Seiryu

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              • Myoku
                Member
                • Jul 2010
                • 1490

                #22
                Re: Book of equanimity

                Gassho Taigu, everyone,
                ordered the book.
                Myoku

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                • andyZ
                  Member
                  • Aug 2011
                  • 303

                  #23
                  Re: Book of equanimity

                  Originally posted by Jundo
                  Originally posted by andyZ
                  I was going to ask in another thread what is the use of just reading and discussing a koan?…Thank you Taigu for telling us that it's not going to be just a discussion. I heard that sometimes it takes years for a student to crack a koan. Got my book in the mail today. This one has 100 of them
                  If one thinks a reading is just words, and a discussion is just chewing the fat ... then one misses the sharp point that cuts through delusion. Neither a matter of words or silence ... but the Silence that Sings through the Heart of Life.

                  Nor is it a puzzle to crack, or weird gestures in the air, mysterious words and actions or MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOing like an old cow (though one certainly can MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO if one's heart needs to) ...

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjyqGnWGftE&feature=related[/video]] ... re=related

                  Let's see how it goes, don't jump to assumptions and conclusions about how it is supposed to be or the ways a Koan should be handled.

                  Koans are "cracked" in 1000 instants, practiced for life.

                  Gassho, J
                  Yes, Jundo, you’re absolutely right. From all the reading that I’ve done on koans I definitely did form an idea of what the koan study “supposed” to be like. I know that Dogen used koans in his teaching but it was probably different from rinzai approach of sitting and living with a koan. It would be interesting to learn more about it. As you mentioned many times there’re many ways up that mountain.
                  Gassho,
                  Andy

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                  • Jinyu
                    Member
                    • May 2009
                    • 768

                    #24
                    Re: Book of equanimity

                    Hi

                    Why do we need to study any koan? we have the big, tremendous genjokoan of daily life, isn't that what Dogen said... :mrgreen: OK OK I'm out... :roll:

                    More seriously, I may have understood wrongly but, did Taigu said he will start in 3 months or so?
                    Just ordered the book by the way .

                    Have a very nice day everyone,
                    deep gassho,
                    Jinyu
                    Jinyu aka Luis aka Silly guy from Brussels

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                    • Jundo
                      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 39964

                      #25
                      Re: Book of equanimity

                      Originally posted by Jinyu
                      Hi

                      Why do we need to study any koan? we have the big, tremendous genjokoan of daily life, isn't that what Dogen said... :mrgreen: OK OK I'm out... :roll:
                      Yes, Dogen spoke of this very life manifesting in 10,000 ways as the Genjo Koan ... the Fundamental Point Actualizing, Reality Realized, the Matter at Hand.

                      But Dogen's Shobogenzo and other writings and talks are wall-to-wall chock full of the "classic Koans", passages from Sutras and the like page after page ... though Dogen would play each like a Jazz musician bends and spins a "standard tune", bringing new life and new meanings to the old songs.

                      viewtopic.php?p=42367#p42367

                      Dogen was a big fan of both the Book of Equanimity and the Blue Cliff Record, and had his own notebook of Koans he collected himself called the "Shinji Shobogenzo" with many of the same Koans as those collections.

                      But, yes, it seems that he employed the Koans to teach and express his music, the "sound" of Buddhism he heard with his eyes. He did not use them in the Rinzai way as an object of focus or inspection during seated Zazen.

                      Gassho, J
                      ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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                      • Madrone
                        Member
                        • Oct 2011
                        • 27

                        #26
                        Re: Book of equanimity

                        Book ordered. Wife rolling her eyes at one more buddhism book. Thanks for the tip about bookdepository, kirkmc.

                        Let's see what happens.

                        Madrone.

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                        • bcaruthers
                          Member
                          • May 2011
                          • 46

                          #27
                          Re: Book of equanimity

                          Just ordered mine for the Nook. I can't wait to discuss the book.

                          Gassho,

                          Bryan
                          “And though it is like this, it is only that flowers, while loved, fall; and weeds while hated, flourish." ~ Dogen Zenji ~

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                          • Omoi Otoshi
                            Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 801

                            #28
                            Book of equanimity

                            Yup, ordered the book! (And Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf, poems by Ryokan! Couldn't resist it!)

                            /Pontus
                            In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
                            you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
                            now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
                            the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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                            • RichardH
                              Member
                              • Nov 2011
                              • 2800

                              #29
                              Re: Book of equanimity

                              Originally posted by Madrone
                              Wife rolling her eyes at one more buddhism book. .
                              :lol:

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                              • Dojin
                                Member
                                • May 2008
                                • 562

                                #30
                                Re: Book of equanimity

                                I have found this online version

                                http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/ ... yoroku.pdf

                                is it any good?
                                can i use it?

                                Gassho, Dojin.
                                I gained nothing at all from supreme enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called supreme enlightenment
                                - the Buddha

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