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What is Zen?
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Master and Disciple
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I have heard...
Some years ago a successful American had a serious identity crisis. He sought help from psychiatrists but nothing came of it, for there were none who could tell him the meaning of life - which is what he wanted to know. By and by he learned of a venerable and incredibly wise guru who lived in a mysterious and most inaccessible region of the Himalayas.
Only that guru, he came to believe, would tell him what life meant and what his role in it ought to be. So he sold all his worldly possessions and began his search for the all-knowing guru. He spent eight years wandering from village to village throughout the Himalayas in an effort to find him. And then one day he chanced upon a shepherd who told him where the guru lived and how to reach the place.
It took him almost a year to find him, but he eventually did. There he came upon his guru, who was indeed venerable, in fact well over one hundred years old. The guru consented to help him, especially when he learned of all the sacrifices the man had made towards this end.
'What can I do for you, my son?' asked the guru. 'I need to know the meaning of life,' said the man.
To this the guru replied, without hesitation, 'Life,' he said, 'is a river without end.'
'A river without end?' said the man in a startled surprise. 'After coming all this way to find you, all you have to tell me is that life is a river without end?'
The guru was shaken, shocked. He became angry and he said, 'You mean it isn't?'
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The Proper State of Mind is 'No Mind'
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The Proper State of Mind is 'No Mind'
WHAT is meditation? Is it a technique that can be practiced? Is it an effort that you have to do? Is it something which the mind can achieve? It is not. All that the mind can do cannot be meditation -- it is something beyond the mind, the mind is absolutely helpless there. The mind cannot penetrate meditation; where mind ends, meditation begins. This has to be remembered, because in our life, whatsoever we do, we do through the mind; whatsoever we achieve, we achieve through the mind. And then, when we turn inwards, we again start thinking in terms of techniques, methods, d ... [Image Embedded Here] [This message is long. Retrieve the whole message]
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I see that I got the customary TWO negative votes ...
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A coffin is the final civilized device serving the body which in this story is somewhat representative of the self. Since Zen helps you to dis-associate from the self (identity, concepts about you ....
A coffin is the final civilized device serving the body which in this story is somewhat representative of the self. Since Zen helps you to dis-associate from the self (identity, concepts about you) and the man was truly expressing Zen, then he had no need for it.
It's great when someones final wish is to be cremated and his ashes spread to the wind. No body-self. Talk to people about how they perceive you and what you'll get are descriptions of your personality and characteristics directly related to or caused by the body. Hardly anyone sees you as life essence itself.
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The Hindu Side of Buddhist Steve Jobs
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No matter how old you are when you die - life is short. It is quicker than a blink of an eye when viewed in relation to "time" and a spiritual perspective. Life in a body has purpose and when we look within it also has spiritual direction and meaning. Birth and death are merely transitions and death itself is nothing to be feared.
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The Hindu Side of Buddhist Steve Jobs – A Great Inspiration to People Around the World
(CHAKRA) Steve Jobs, 56 and a Zen Buddhist, died on October 5th, 2011 once served as CEO of Pixar and Apple. In his popular Stanford University commencement address in 2005, Jobs said: “I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna (Hindu) temple. I loved it.” In the same speech, he talked about “karma”: “You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma…”
Many reports suggest that Jobs worked for the video game manufacturer Atari as a technician with the main purpose of raising enough money for about a year-long spiritual and dharmic retreat to India in the 1970s in search of enlightenment. The trip to India including visiting the Ashram of Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. Steve Jobs came back to America with a shaved head and wearing traditional Indian robes. He regularly walked around his office/neighborhood barefoot which is very common in Buddhist and Hindu faiths.
Hinduism was a definite source of spirituality and inspiration for Steve Jobs as he liked yoga and was also vegetarian, known for his strong love and compassion to all animals and was even known to explore Hinduism during his trip to India in 1970s.
Hinduism and Buddhism are Dharmic religions with many similarities and both originated in Ancient India.
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My experience with Feldenkrais
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My experience with Feldenkrais
At the core of enlightenment there is no distinction between Zen Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. I have always noticed that within Zen you are solely given the wisdom of the scriptures to work with and they leave it at that. Zen Buddhism will say something like this:
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.” ~ Zen proverb
Within Tibetan Buddhism you are not only given a set of wisdom-like principals but also a complete set of skillful methods to bring more mindfulness into our body, speech and mind. In the same way, Feldenkrais Movement therapy is a wonderful and skillful method to bring more awareness into every action our body makes.
From the Into Feldenkrais website:
“Limitations in movement are often due to the unconscious habits of muscular holding we develop through our lifetime. Most of us have experienced physical or emotional trauma at some point and though our body may have absorbed the effects of this at the time, stresses and strain remain stored in the muscles and held as pattern in the brain.
This creates bad posture and movement which make more stress and strain. It’s a vicious circle. Feldenkrais sessions break this circle, helping people recognize habits of tension and discover alternatives to eliminate limitations and restrictions. As a result we learn better body mechanics and discover ease through natural flexibility and new-found coordination.”
I remember working with my Feldenkrais therapist over ten years ago. She taught me that just to get up from a seated position and walk across the room is not so easy…but with full awareness one could move with innumerable variations. After a few months of working with her I came to feel my hips were unlocked – like a swing moving along a cradle. It was amazing to experience that level of freedom of movement.
She told me that one of her lamas saw Moshé Feldenkrais walk across the room and the high lama looked at her and said “Rinpoche”. Now, Rinpoche is an honorific title in Tibetan Buddhism that means precious one. I was a little disturbed when I heard this because he never taught the dharma in a formal sense and his books lacked the clarity that I had been familiar with.
However, only years later do I understand how it is quite possible that Moshe impressed the lama through the profound awareness he brought into the way he moved his body.
The dharma teaches us that there are many thousands of emanations of Buddhas all over the world doing various works to relieve the suffering of sentient beings. We just don’t know who they are because they look so ordinary – just like us. Likewise, a bodhisattva with a good intention can bring profound benefit to others when one has an aspiration to help all sentient beings and a skillful method to accomplish healing. When we look at the results of his or her work the truth becomes readily apparent.
“Through awareness we can learn to move with astonishing lightness and freedom.” — Moshé Feldenkrais
To show how beautiful this process can be… here is one simple method I found on YouTube that has its basis in movement therapy. This particular gentleman of 4 Season Fitness has a one minute exercise to quickly remove pain or stress. See if you can notice the channels or nerves opening up in various parts of your body such as your back or neck.
For more info on healing and links click here:
http://neozen888.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/feldenkrais-movement-therapy/
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A disciple, Zen Master and polo game
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A disciple, Zen Master and polo game
A Zen story:
A disciple came to the Master. He had gone to see a polo game. The Master asked him, "Tell me a few things. Were the riders on the horses tired?" The disciple said, "Yes, at the end of the game they looked tired."
Secondly the Master said, "Were the horses tired ?" The disciple said, "Yes, a little bit, not as much as the riders, but even the horses were tired."
Then the Master said, "The last and the final question: were the posts, the wooden posts which are needed in the game, were they tired too?"
Now this was too much! The disciple hesitated a little. The Master said, "Go into your room and meditate over it. Tomorrow morning you can answer."
The whole night he could not sleep; he tossed and turned. "The wooden posts -- how can they be tired? What a stupid question to ask! But when the Master asks, it can't be stupid; there must be something in it." The whole night he tried hard.
Early in the morning as the sun was rising he rushed to the Master, fell at his feet, and he said, "Yes, Master, they were tired." The Master said, "I am happy. Your going to the polo game has not been useless."
Others who were present, they could not understand what was going on. Wooden posts tired?! Somebody asked the Master, "What nonsense is this? How can wooden posts be tired?" And the Master said, "If wooden posts cannot be tired then nobody can be tired, because this whole existence is one." If man gets tired, if horses get tired, then wooden posts also get tired. The whole existence is a manifestation of one energy.
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cause and effect
"Curiosity, or love of the knowledge of causes, draws a man from consideration of the effect to seek the cause; and again, the cause of that cause, till of necessity he must come to this thought at last, that there is some cause, whereof there is no former cause, but is eternal, which - men call God."
-Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
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