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EMAIL IS OFF AGAIN! .The key to “Non-Attachment” is a loosening, or fading away, of a hard sense of ‘self’ … … because it is the self that is selfish, it is the self that has self needs, it is the self that wants to please itself, it is the self that is afraid of…

EMAIL IS BACK! .“Non-Attachment” is being mindful, yet not attached. We allow events to go the way they go, do not cling to things. There are 1000 opportunities to practice ‘non-attachment’ during a normal day. (Please pardon my non-stop cough during Zazen. That cough is now attached to me!) . Press on arrow for ‘play’…

EMAIL DOWN: OUR EMAIL HAS BEEN DOWN FOR A FEW DAYS, FOR FOLKS TRYING TO REACH ME. . I posted this in a discussion on the Forum, as the subject was “Non-attachment” … I like to go with a gentle approach to “attachments,” because the simplest way to get rid of our “overly tight grip”…

EMAIL DOWN: OUR EMAIL HAS BEEN DOWN FOR A FEW DAYS, FOR FOLKS TRYING TO REACH ME. .Yesterday’s story of sadness, now this that comes from it … HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR YOUSSIF Few stories have touched CNN.com users like that of 5-year-old Youssif,an Iraqi boy set on fire by masked men.A U.S.…

.Yesterday, I described Buddhism as a positive, joyful, optimistic philosophy, with Zazen an experience pleasant and peaceful, filled with feelings of deep contentment. I was kidding around with my little nieces and son, shooting the garden hose, celebrating a child’s birthday … Then I looked at the news, and saw one of those stories ……

.Nishijima Roshi describes Buddhism as a positive, joyful, optimistic philosophy. It does not have that image to many people, who see it as a means of escape from all emotions, pleasing or not. It just is not so. Zazen is (usually) pleasant, joyful and filled with sensations of peace and contentment. On the contrary, one…

.In Asian legend, dragons are wonderous water dwelling creatures, a symbol of good fortune. Tigers live in their mountain lair. They are in their true element.. In Zazen, human beings find their true element …. .…. untouched by restrictions or hindrances. What is called sitting-Zen is not learning Zen meditation. It is just a peaceful…

.A koan for people growing older … If there is no self, whose arthritis is this? (From Zen Judaism, by David Bader) It’s not only the ‘big stuff‘, but the little aches and pains (sore knees, sore back), annoyances and distractions (the phone ringing during Zazen) that also must be embraced in our Practice. Nothing…

Today is my birthday, my first birthday … … or maybe it is my no-birthday. What does a Zen fellow get for his first birthday/no-birthday? Nothing, and the whole universe too! Press on arrow for ‘play’

.Today, I was going to explain how death is merely an illusion, that we truly live forever without end, that reincarnation is as real as the sunrise (just not in the simplistic manner often portrayed), that life is not at all as it seems … … and I was going to do so in such…
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