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Zazen Notes #7
Evening 26/02/09 – 30 mins zazen (posted 08:47, updated 11.05) The judging / discursive thoughts that intervene between awareness that the mind has wandered and the intention of returning to the breath seem to be the kicker. It’s impossible to return to the breath and body without dropping the judging / evaluating thoughts as they [...]
Zazen Notes #2
[Previous notes] I’ve been continuing with very short periods of zazen everyday. At the moment all I am concentrating on is getting into the habit of settling in a good posture. Back when I belonged to a local Zen group I learnt all the basic points of zazen preparation and posture but I never got [...]
Happy Holidays!
Thank you to all who read, commented on, and supported this blog during 2008 – especially Jeff (Daito), Shinyo, Doug, Jon, Marcus, and of course my co-authors Jishin, Gakko and Ray. Your practice becomes teaching for me. Namuamidabutsu. In the new year I expect to continue my reading of Dōgen’s works, but perhaps more importantly [...]
Link: Maverick Philosopher on ‘Athens and Benares’
Further to my recent rather rambling post about the place of ‘Reason’ in Shin Buddhism, or rather the question of whether it has one, I came across a very interesting post by the philosopher William F. Vallicella on a tension he finds in his own life between ‘Athens’ and ‘Benares’. My background and nature are [...]
Notes on ‘Introspective Reading’
In this post I would like to look in a little more detail at ‘introspective reading’ (my term). I touched on this in an earlier post as practiced in a group format but this time I would like to look at it more from the perspective of personal practice. Several years ago I went on [...]
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