21/365 I hope nobody is getting tired of seeing this thread...Jundo, I dont see this as a race, just something 'challenging'...
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Maybe "challenge" is the wrong term for this thread. Challenge connotates competition. I use it as a simple reminder to sit if possible, not letting laziness get in the way. Just a thought.
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I agree...I meant a challenge to myselfComment
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Oh no, I understand Mark. By the way,I'm winning!
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Oh wait...what? We will see next year who is a buddha...lolComment
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Hi Mark,
Oh, it is most certainly a race, a challenge, a competition. This kind ...
Shikantaza “Just Sitting” is an unusual way of meditation, and might be compared to running a long distance foot race in a most unusual way. (Follow this link) ...
Hang in there! Though there is no where else to go and you are already Buddha ... you are all getting closer, making progress, better and better toward becoming Buddha with each step.
Funny how that works.
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This is certainly hard to understand...I sit with the goal of enlightenment, but I have already attained the goal each time I sit. I'll understand this eventually i'm sure.Comment
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Yes, simply (in Just Sitting) thoroughly drop thoughts and emotions of greed, anger and divisions ... thoughts of past and future ... aversions and attractions, likes and dislikes ... personal ratings of perfection and imperfection, pure vs. impure ... self-comparisons and jealousies, of "improving" or "worsening" ... thoughts of how things "should be" or "I want life to be" ... including thoughts of "Buddha" and "attaining" anything and "Enlightenment" ... drop all goals ... finding the way of body-mind where the self's little "me myself mine" self-centered judgments and desires are dropped away ...
... thus finding the Way to Buddha here all along that is Free of all That, Where and each step is a Total Arrival, thus attaining the goal of Pure Supreme Perfect Enlightenment ...
... then get up from the cushion and figure out just how to actualize and bring to life all that Wisdom and Compassion in this messy, disappointing, tangled world of thoughts and emotions, past and future, likes and dislikes, war and peace, sickness and health ... living free of all that mess as/in/through-and-through the mess ... untangled by life's constant tangles ...
... something you actually get better at with time and continued, sincere Practice (as with any skill, from cooking to sailing) ...
... all until we are someday Perfect Golden Buddhas like in the sacred Sutra story books.
It's not rocket science.
Gassho, JLast edited by Jundo; 08-26-2012, 01:05 AM.ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLEComment
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zazen kinhin zazen....and all that arises through day and night 11/365Comment
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MikeTo avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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MikeTo avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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MikeTo avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
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