Step 1: Sit.
Step 2: There is no step two.
Step 2: There is no step two.
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Love it. Thank you
GasshoThank you for your practice
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
One could argue there is no step.
Gassho,
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Yeah, but what's next?Originally posted by kirkmc
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gregComment
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The two steps of Shikantaza
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 dayComment
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Step 3: Repeat step 1!Originally posted by ghopHo 法 (Dharma)
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Step 1: Sit.
Step 2: Live.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 dayComment
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
But this implies that we're not living when we sit...or bringing our sitting into our life...or...or...or...oh I'll never understand this zen business 8)Originally posted by Omoi Otoshi
Step 1: Disappear
Step 2. Reappear
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The two steps of Shikantaza
Yes, you are right!
But sitting and then nothing else sounds like a wasted life, being like a bump on a log, even when the sitting is sat as complete, as whole.
When walking on the path, taking step 1 with the left foot and step 2 with the right foot, the feet are meeting with every step, right? Woven into one fluid motion, into a wholeness of walking, with no thought of separation between left and right foot. Sitting as if life is complete and nothing is lacking. Living as if sitting, life complete and nothing lacking. Body-mind-sitting-living. Living-sitting-body-mind.
/PontusIn 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 dayComment
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Y'all could have been sitting this whole time. :twisted:
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The two steps of Shikantaza
Yes, but why? :twisted:Originally posted by Nenka
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/PontusIn 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 dayComment
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
_/_Originally posted by NenkaHo 法 (Dharma)
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
Wrong.Step 1: Sit.
Step 2: There is no step two.
Let's say
Step 1: breathe
Step 2: ...[size=85:z6oilzbt]
To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
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Re: The two steps of Shikantaza
:lol:Originally posted by NenkaComment
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