Treena look, create yor own tradition.
Constancy in zazen, some studying you look forward to, settles your practice in intimacy. Allow it in, soon it is a part of you.
Even in the fog of daily turmoil my pracitce is me and I it, not two.
I go to mass often, my old tradition, because of my zazen I get so deeply into the liturgy it's ...well, personal, intimate. It owns me.
Trying to have no goals is a goal in itself.
You are free. Declare it to yourself.
In gassho to all.
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Sit whenever however. Dump the crap and sit, just sit.
It is best to do it at the same time daily or every other day. You decide.
At 70, I wake up early and then read this or that, or have tried to stay abreast of new books, etc. Always a goal, trying to become....?
The hell with that. No more. I just sit. 20 m is perfect for me now. Tonite I go to sangha and we sit 40, if that turns into another goal, the hell with it. I wil probaly get up slowly and do kinhin or just leave.
I'm free.
This way what is happening is that I am actually looking forward to stuff: sit, read, prepare some tea. The cats love it.
The practice is doing me.
Thank you to everyone who has shared on this thread.
Gassho,
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Guest repliedSit whenever however. Dump the crap and sit, just sit.
It is best to do it at the same time daily or every other day. You decide.
At 70, I wake up early and then read this or that, or have tried to stay abreast of new books, etc. Always a goal, trying to become....?
The hell with that. No more. I just sit. 20 m is perfect for me now. Tonite I go to sangha and we sit 40, if that turns into another goal, the hell with it. I wil probaly get up slowly and do kinhin or just leave.
I'm free.
This way what is happening is that I am actually looking forward to stuff: sit, read, prepare some tea. The cats love it.
The practice is doing me.
Gassho,
TreenaLeave a comment:
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Sit whenever however. Dump the crap and sit, just sit.
It is best to do it at the same time daily or every other day. You decide.
At 70, I wake up early and then read this or that, or have tried to stay abreast of new books, etc. Always a goal, trying to become....?
The hell with that. No more. I just sit. 20 m is perfect for me now. Tonite I go to sangha and we sit 40, if that turns into another goal, the hell with it. I wil probaly get up slowly and do kinhin or just leave.
I'm free.
This way what is happening is that I am actually looking forward to stuff: sit, read, prepare some tea. The cats love it.
The practice is doing me.
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It is best to do it at the same time daily or every other day. You decide.
At 70, I wake up early and then read this or that, or have tried to stay abreast of new books, etc. Always a goal, trying to become....?
The hell with that. No more. I just sit. 20 m is perfect for me now. Tonite I go to sangha and we sit 40, if that turns into another goal, the hell with it. I wil probaly get up slowly and do kinhin or just leave.
I'm free.
This way what is happening is that I am actually looking forward to stuff: sit, read, prepare some tea. The cats love it.
The practice is doing me.
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Guest repliedOh, this is so so so vital!
For Shikantaza to really be "Right" (strange as it sounds) it must be "right just as it is" even on those many days when it feels all wrong! If it is only "Right" when feeling "right", it is not truly transcendent and encompassing of "right or wrong" on an off the cushion.
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Right Zazen and Wrong Zazen
Hi, I BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING TO BE SO VITAL, FOR NEW AND OLD, THAT I AM GOING TO MAKE A SPECIAL REPOST. It is the "there is good Zazen, and bad Zazen ... but never any bad Zazen" post ... _________________________________________________ Hey All, I would like to repost something that I think is important to
It is crazy-sane that way ... and very much unlike most of life which we constant worry about "measuring up" and "getting right". We "get it right" by sitting beyong "getting right", and we "get it wrong" when we try too hard to "measure up and get it just right"
Gassho, J
Gassho,
TreenaLeave a comment:
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For Shikantaza to really be "Right" (strange as it sounds) it must be "right just as it is" even on those many days when it feels all wrong! If it is only "Right" when feeling "right", it is not truly transcendent and encompassing of "right or wrong" on an off the cushion.
More here ...
Right Zazen and Wrong Zazen
Hi, I BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING TO BE SO VITAL, FOR NEW AND OLD, THAT I AM GOING TO MAKE A SPECIAL REPOST. It is the "there is good Zazen, and bad Zazen ... but never any bad Zazen" post ... _________________________________________________ Hey All, I would like to repost something that I think is important to
It is crazy-sane that way ... and very much unlike most of life which we constant worry about "measuring up" and "getting right". We "get it right" by sitting beyond "getting right", and we "get it wrong" when we try too hard to "measure up and get it just right"
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Great! And never matter when (not if!) the clouds return. The sky is still thereLeave a comment:
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Jundo, I went to the Dr reluctantly. When I saw his face it scared me to the bone. He did say I was there just in time. Now it seems the problem was part of the attitude and the result part of the practice. Even as I quit I was never sure what it was I was quiting, but things got simplified mucho fast.
In gassho to all in this active sangha,
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Guest repliedEd, 5am, wow that is fantastic!! And yeah, best meditation advice--just dump the crap and breath
Gassho,
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