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Today’s Zazen is only 1 minute long … but (sometimes) time does not matter … I’m in a dreary government office to file some forms, waiting for my number to be called … it is taking forever … a perfect time for Insta-Zazen© (when isn’t?). (for those folks who don’t know about Insta-Zazen©, here’s a…

Now that the games are done for four more years, I’d like to propose that Zazen be made an event for the next Olympics … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

So, we now see that these lines of the Heart Sutra are shorthand for the “Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination“, ruuning from “ignorance” to “old age and death” … … and emptiness breaks the chain. In fact, what “chain“?(Please excuse a few oral “typos” … I keep calling the chain the “12 foot chain” ……

Let’s look at a bit more at the ‘Twelve-fold-Chain‘ … (1) chaos or ignorance (sk: avida), (2) action (karma), (3) consciousness (vijnana), (4) the external world (nama-rupa), (5) the six sense organs (shadayatana), (6) contact (spasha), (7) sensation (vedana), (8) desire (trishna), (9) grasping (upadana), (10) possession (bhava), (11) birth (jeti), and (12) sickness, old…
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