Postration

[Jundo]

... but I think Taigu and Jundo make a good point for just sitting as you can sit. ... There seems something awfully un-Zen about a fanatical need for perfection anyway.

Gassho

C

Well, perhaps we might say that we sit "as one can sit" ... so long as one is sincere about it. Any balanced and comfortable way is fine ... Lotus, Burmese, in a Chair ... as long as one is sincere and not just slacking off.

If there is pain, we try to find a way free of pain. If pain is unavoidable, we sit (even recline) with such ... mentally "free of suffering" even amid the pain. "Physical pain" and "suffering" are not the same in Buddhism.

We strive sincerely, with all our hearts, for perfection, to do something well and get it right ... all while dropping from our hearts all "striving" (even as we strive) ... all while realizing the perfect "just what it is-ness" of things even as we try to do the best possible, perfectly right or perfectly wrong.

Zen is not a one or the other way.

Gassho, J

[Ishin]

Well, perhaps we might say that we sit "as one can sit" ... so long as one is sincere about it. Any balanced and comfortable way is fine ... Lotus, Burmese, in a Chair ... as long as one is sincere and not just slacking off.

If there is pain, we try to find a way free of pain. If pain is unavoidable, we sit (even recline) with such ... mentally "free of suffering" even amid the pain. "Physical pain" and "suffering" are not the same in Buddhism.

We strive sincerely, with all our hearts, for perfection, to do something well and get it right ... all while dropping from our hearts all "striving" (even as we strive) ... all while realizing the perfect "just what it is-ness" of things even as we try to do the best possible, perfectly right or perfectly wrong.

Zen is not a one or the other way.

Gassho, J

Thank you Jundo.
Gassho
C

[Mp]

Zen is not a one or the other way.

I like this ... thanks Jundo. Simple and sweet!

Gassho
Shingen