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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Newer posts →. In and out of control. March 7, 2010. When I was doing my PhD I developed a stomach ulcer as a result of all the pressure I was putting on myself to succeed. Going to the university medical centre, the primary care physician/general practitioner there told me that the solution was to be less stressed. Very helpful advice, no? Continue reading →. A Stitch in Time. February 28, 2010. This mor...
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The Well Spring of Experience | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Thoughts on The Heart Sutra. The Well Spring of Experience. April 23, 2011. Reading Katagiri Roshi’s book ‘Return to Silence’. Recently, I was struck by the following passage:. From where does this spring water come? Although Buddhism does deal with issues such as what happens after death and cosmology, it differs from many other religions in placing the observation of experience and what we can actually ...
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Recommended Online Teachings | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. An Attempt At Instructions For Zazen by. To you who are still dissatisfied with your zazen. By Josho Pat Phelan. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Reading List | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. These are some of the books I have found helpful in my practice, I list them here in the hope they will help others. Some books appear in more than one section. This is entirely intentional. More introductory texts are marked with a *. 8216;A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment’. 8216;Buddhism Without Beliefs’, ‘Confession of a Buddhist Atheist’. 8216;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation’. Hanh, Thich Nhat.
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Monthly Archives: May 2014. Don’t Expect Applause. May 23, 2014. I have been a member of Treeleaf online sangha. One thing I have been noticing in myself recently is a tendency to look for encouragement on my sangha forum, especially from the two teachers, and, conversely, become disheartened if the opposite happens. Is a sign of mature practice? I don’t think so. Continue reading →. Why Zen Has No Raft.
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Mind Like The Sky | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Why Zen Has No Raft →. Mind Like The Sky. December 5, 2012. For the mind of Man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one… And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other. Body like a mountain. Breath like the wind.
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December | 2013 | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Monthly Archives: December 2013. Why Zen Has No Raft. December 23, 2013. 8220;From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice,. Outside us no Buddhas.”. 8212; Hakuin Ekaku. 8220;We usually don’t look. We overlook.”. 8212; Alan Watts. In the parable of the raft. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Don’t Expect Applause. Why Zen Has No Raft.
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September | 2012 | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Monthly Archives: September 2012. September 24, 2012. Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. 8212; Jack Kerouac. In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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Apprenticed to Silence | Endless River
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Thoughts from a seeker on the path. Buddhist Texts and Sutras. Just Sitting Meditation in East Kent. Mind Like The Sky →. September 24, 2012. Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it. 8212; Jack Kerouac. In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. So, what to do?
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