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Life is a million things to do. These days, all of us are juggling so much … Is Buddhism a teaching of passivity? Must it mean withdrawal from the world? Not at all! “Just Sitting” Shikantaza is stillness … whether sitting or when moving. We never leave our True Home … though there are places…

We begin ‘Zazen for Beginners (We’re All Beginners)’ … We’ll talk the basics of ‘Just Sitting’ Shikantaza Zazen … … There’s a bit more to it than ‘just sitting’ !! Today, we’ll see how Zen practice is for us dogs, chasing our own tails … .Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

. Just a quiet, father-son sitting today. At least for a few minutes, before Leon went off to play. He lost a tooth this week, his first. .Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

… “dropping body-mind” … … “forgetting the self” … … sounds really tricky to “do”. Maybe.it is! But so’s bicycle riding, swimming or tightrope walking if you try to explain these in words to someone who never has! (By the way, ‘just sitting’ Shikantaza, like riding a bike, is the most ordinary thing. Nothing special.…

.. you, me & tea __________________________ To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop…

. To “forget the self‘ is to be as an unborn child. A moment of Zazen is as if returned to a womb never departed, as a life without thought of its separate self. The unborn one, when very newly conceived, cannot ask where child begins or parent begins. It does not ask a reason…

. For Zen Master Hamlet, this need not be the question … . __________________________ To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well…

.As Dogen would say if he was from New Jersey … . __________________________ To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as…

. In realizing our fundamental nature, it is first necessary to appreciate the fiction which is our sense of self. We are each a set of factors and conditions that have fallen together temporarily as an ‘individual’. You are a folded paper crane that believes it can fly.* ** * But before you become overly…

find yourself by forgetting your self My Dharma Brother, Michael Leutchford, has a sweet modernized version of this … The truth that the Buddha taught is finding who “I” am. To find who “I” really am is to forget about “I.” To forget about “I” is to be whole with everything in experience. To be…
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