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Which of the following statements are true? (a) Zen Buddhists drop all opinions . (b) Zen Buddhists hold clear opinions . (c) Zen Buddhists drop all judgments of ‘right’ and ‘true’ . (d) Zen Buddhists judge many things as ‘right’ and ‘true’ . Answer: (a) (b) (c) & (d) Thus Dogen Zenji, a man of…

Notice the picture below … the center-pole anchoring opposing judgments of ‘true’ or ‘false’, see the whiteness from which all of it arises … Imagine that the pole stands for a world prior to all human judgments of right and wrong, true or false, this and that, left and right, good vs. bad, self and…

I like it so much when Master Dogen says to drop ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ … It’s good stuff to not think ‘good’ or ‘bad’ … Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a rest. Do not think of good and bad. Do not care about right and wrong. Stop the driving movement of mind, will,…

Drop thought of the ‘not-self’ things, what need then for a ‘self’? … Can you see the total circle of the picture? Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a rest. Do not think of good and bad. Do not care about right and wrong. Stop the driving movement of mind, will, consciousness. Cease intellectual…

Master Dogen presents the nuts & bolts ‘how to’ of Zazen … Shoen o hôsha shi, banji o kyûsoku shite,zen’aku o omawazu, zehi o kansuru koto nakare.Shin i shiki no unten o yame, nensôkan no shikiryô o yamete,sabutsu o hakaru koto nakare, ani zaga ni kakawaran ya. Abandon all involvements. Give the myriad things a…

Our fully enlightened being, Guru ‘Ram Ass’ – (the Great ‘Sai Bobo’) returns … We will discuss the secret of making choices that are always right, and never a mistake. Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

I just don’t feel like more words today … so let’s spent the extra time sitting together. If, for some reason, you cannot survive for one day without hearing the sound of my squeaky voice, please listen again to yesterday’s talk. I think it was a nice one. Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

Maybe the Buddha was just a clever, but ordinary, man. Maybe the Buddha didn’t even really exist. Maybe the Buddha was wrong about some things (and right about some things). Maybe nobody knows what the Buddha truly said. Maybe every single one of the Sutras was written centuries later by a writer putting words in…

All things in moderation. Even moderation. Sore sanzen wa jôshitsu yoroshiku, onjiki setsu ari. In general, a quiet room is good for experiencing Zen balance, and food and drink are taken in moderation. [Nishijima] For practicing Zen, a quiet room is suitable. Eat and drink moderately. [SZTP] Press on arrow for ‘play’ .

For practice in a ‘quiet room‘ to have real meaning, that room must hold the beautiful and the ugly. Thus, before leaving this topic, we will sit with the ugliest. We should avoid nothing in our room. In our sitting, we drop all thought of ‘good‘ and ‘bad‘, ‘war‘ and ‘peace‘ and the rest. We…
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