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I’m compelled to draw attention to the totality of all experiences of aliveness. There seems to be an over emphasis on just the so-called positive aspects of being in contemporary spiritual discourse which, to me, seems inaccurate, and unhelpful.
I’m with Ordinary Mind Zendo’s lay teacher Barry Magid on this when he says:
Zazen is a complete experience of being for its own sake; it is not a means to an end, not some curative fantasy. All you're going to do is sit, and experience whatever is going on. This means feeling whatever you feel (emotionally or physically), think whatever you think - and just watch. What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings they are coming to meditation to escape.
Barry Magid
One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.
One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.
One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.
Your life
Your lived experience
Your own unique aliveness
That simply is
Without need or want
In every moment
Is the only possible way
Your life
Your lived experience
Your own unique aliveness
That simply is
Without need or want
In every moment
Is the only possible way
Your life
Your lived experience
Your own unique aliveness
That simply is
Without need or want
In every moment
Is the only possible way
You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?
‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?
‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?
‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus:
Layman Pang
There is no true and also no false.
Existence doesn’t concern me,
Nor does nonexistence hold me:
I’m not a holy sage,
But an ordinary fellow who understands things.
Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus:
Layman Pang
There is no true and also no false.
Existence doesn’t concern me,
Nor does nonexistence hold me:
I’m not a holy sage,
But an ordinary fellow who understands things.
Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus:
Layman Pang
There is no true and also no false.
Existence doesn’t concern me,
Nor does nonexistence hold me:
I’m not a holy sage,
But an ordinary fellow who understands things.
There is no obligation to place the recognition of the nature of one’s own mind into any particular spiritual tradition. The only appropriate context is the actuality of one’s own life.
There is no obligation to place the recognition of the nature of one’s own mind into any particular spiritual tradition. The only appropriate context is the actuality of one’s own life.
There is no obligation to place the recognition of the nature of one’s own mind into any particular spiritual tradition. The only appropriate context is the actuality of one’s own life.
All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.
All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.
All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.