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Just thought I'd mention that I went to a 5 day sesshin last weekend, led by Paul Haller of the San Francisco Zen Center and took the precepts at the end of it. I managed the sesshin ok with a lot of help from a kind friend. My new name is Taizan Shin Do,
Thank you. It means 'Peaceful Mount Way Trust' or so I am told. I hope I can live up to it as well. Thought I might use 'Taizan' - never thought of Shindo, but it sounds ok too
Congratulations, Taizan (do you wear a loin cloth?)
Good to see the Dharma flourishing in old "Norn Iron".
Now, are you a Catholic Buddhist, or a Protestant Buddhist :?: :P
Me Taizan you Jain? There were 50 of us crammed into a room in Benburb priory - great to see it. I love the atmosphere of 50 people being completely still and silent. It's funny - there seem to be more Catholics attracted to Zen than Protestants in NI. Don't know why that is. Zen seems a more 'Presbyterian' i.e. starker and freer of ornamentation, form of Buddhism to me,
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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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