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Master was walking down the street in Paris when a beggar asked him for a cigarette and the beggar told to Master: "The only single thing which is not an illusion in this world is suffering" (pain, stress, afliction, dukkha)

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zhine (Dzogchen) and zazen (Zen) are similar, I feel...a fierceness and simplicity that lends itself to effortlessness in the end (LOL...whatta combination!). Fierceness without harshness which is gentle as gossamer when all is said and done

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banana !

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Master said that to stay soft is a victory..



He does not teach to hurt

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scout1 wrote:Once my Master was walking down the street in Paris when a beggar asked him for a cigarette and the beggar told to Master: "The only single thing which is not an illusion in this world is suffering" (pain, stress, afliction, dukkha)
that master does not seem to have found the root of suffering...
Check the 12 links in the chain of existence.

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"She Just Stared"
This big eyed sweet face sat in front of me on
my very very long bus ride from Bodhgaya to Varanasi, India. Only while
stepping down to leave did she look back and finally give me a smile to
keep forever. I had apparently earned it. :-)

Valerie took this photo

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Mornings Son wrotecout1 wrote:Once my Master was walking down the street in Paris when a beggar asked him for a cigarette and the beggar told to Master: "The only single thing which is not an illusion in this world is suffering" (pain, stress, afliction, dukkha)
that master does not seem to have found the root of suffering...
Check the 12 links in the chain of existence.

No, it was the First Noble Truth. About dukkha.

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The Master Obaku - Chuang Po - on zazen:



"Sitting properly and peacefully, not bound by the world ? this alone is called liberation! Everybody should strive diligently. Out of thousands and thousands of Dharma students in the Dhyana School, only three or five attain the fruit. If we do not care about our practice, misfortune could easily arise in the future. All of us should practice diligently and finish the task of liberation in this life. Who can or wants to bear misfortune for endless kalpas?"





In



The Dharma of Mind Transmission:

Zen Teachings of Huang-po



http://www.abuddhistlibra...ings%20of%20Huang-po.htm





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Dont be stupid, please. Zen is zazen as to the practice. Zen is dhyana.







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"Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life."



- Master Dogen

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When the mind dwells on nothing, true mind appears. » Diamond Sutra

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Genjo koan (Truth unfolding)



When various things are Buddhist things... (ZAZEN PRACTICE)





then there is wisdom

and there is practice, there is life and there is death,

there are buddhas and there are sentient beings. When all

things have no self, there is no delusion and there is no satori,

there are no buddhas and there are no sentient beings,

there are no beginnings and there are no endings. The way

of the buddha inherently soars above such extravagance

and austerity, uniting beginnings and endings, uniting delusion

and satori, uniting sentient beings and buddhas. It is

falling blossoms uniting love and sorrow, spreading weeds

uniting indifference and dislike, nothing more.



http://www.bob.myers.name/pub/Truth%20Unfolding.pdf

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~ZEN



IN ZAZEN



YOU UNITE THE WHOLE UNIVERSE

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Not too close, not too far, there is a natural distance between two persons, two things, two fenomons. We can find this natural distance at the same way we find a correct distance between us and the fire,if we stay too close from fire it burn us, if we stand too far we feel cold. We should neitheir stand too close from people, from the fenomens of the life, nor too far. Everybody is different, it explain why Master Dogen said '' The experiment of the practice of zazen it is to understand oneself ''in order to understand the world, the people around oneself, in order to find the right distance, the natural one, the most human attitude, the most kind, at the equal distance between indifference and fanatism for exemple. The causes of lot of troubles come from the non- respect or from the ignorance of those natural distance, it come from a lack of attention, of concentration from our side. Therefore it is something that we can correct by ourself , that we can make better by ourselves. The practice of zen attitude consist to correct onself in order to find at every instant the natural distance between us and the other, between us and the fenomenon, because what we remember long time after are only the manners.

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ZEN



The Dharma of Mind Transmission:

Zen Teachings of Huang-po



http://www.abuddhistlibra...ings%20of%20Huang-po.htm

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http://www.abuddhistlibra...ings%20of%20Huang-po.htm



This works better...and in regard HuangPo, I prefer this anecdote about him to his teachings...that after he achieved enlightenment and came down from the mountain, he encountered a monk and had this exchange: (btw...HP supposedly was over 7' tall)
"Magnificent!..Imposing!  Where have you come from?"
"Magnificent and imposing, I have come from the mountains."
"What have you come for?"
"Not for anything else."

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Good point.



A disciple of Zen has his/her whole life for the contemplation of this, letting his/her spirit to shine forever. Absolute.



Thus a disciple of Zen is not seeking it in either wordly affairs nor in esoteric affairs. Just the Absolute.

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You have to look directly at every footstep and motion, keeping your awareness alive.This is not just a technique, but is about deep cultivation. To not be moved around by the external world with your discriminating view of things. You say that every footstep is your path, but who is using those feet, who is walking that path? And if you make yourself something separate, that is also a great error. Who sees the world in discriminating ways? Who brings forth all of those thoughts? You build shadows and then you are imagining to resolve them. It is you who is looking at this world with discrimination, while saying: you have never let go of the Buddha´s way the whole time. It is like playing sumo all by your self. Making problems up and then thinking that you are resolving them. This is a big mistake.

- Shodo Harada Roshi

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