Congratulations! I'd be curious to know, from all the unsui really, if you plan or see yourselves teaching far down the road? Or are some of you initially doing it more to just commit yourself more seriously to practice?
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Thanks,
Kaishin (開心, Open Heart)
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I haven't been able to see this until now. Congrats!!
Deep bows,
HeionLook upon the world as a bubble,
regard it as a mirage;
who thus perceives the world,
him Mara, the king of death, does not see.
—Dhammapada
Sat TodayComment
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Hi Kaishin,
I didn't want you to think you were being ignored. I've been thinking about your questions and I just can't come up with a "straight" answer. Like practice, it's not a static thing - sometimes it's one answer, sometimes it's something else. For me, it really is too early to tell for sure. I'm sorry my answer isn't more illuminating but it's the best I can come up with for now. I, of course, am only answering for my self.
Gassho,Meido Shugen
明道 修眼Comment
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Congratulations Shingen and Shugen!Gassho, Shawn Jakudo Hinton
It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
"Even to speak the word Buddha is dragging in the mud soaking wet; Even to say the word Zen is a total embarrassment."
寂道Comment
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Hello Kaishin,
For me I am can be a student one moment and at another, be a teacher. Each moment, each experience has the opportunity for both or just one. For me ... I am just walking this path and helping where and when I can ... nothing to attain ... and yet to embrace each moment as it is. =)
Gassho
ShingenComment
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Congrats to both of you!
Gassho,
Matt JComment
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Congratulations, guys!
Or should it be 'good luck!'?
Gassho,
ChetComment
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Shingen, this is an important perspective, whether monk or lay, sometimes a student, sometimes a teacher. Thanks for this. Sounds like "saving all beings" in its many opportunities. You, me, butterfly, blade of grass. Always both a host and a guest are present.
Quiet bows,
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