Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A Zen Koan, "What is this?"

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There are many seemingly simple spiritual practices that when engaged often bring to a person some surprising and purely deep results. Wh...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Seeking Someone to Cover the Holes

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" We find the courage to go on, even if it's only for one more breath."  --At Home in the Muddy Water --by Ezra Bayada Whe...
Friday, August 1, 2014

The Bubble of Fear

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"I realized that none of what I feared was happening now, nor had it ever happened!"  --Being Zen by Ezra Bayada In his book, ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Other Mudras

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"the soul must empty itself to be filled with God." by St. John of the Cross While many perceive the yogic mudras as part of es...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Precepts: Living Awake and in the Truth, Part 1

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Simple Mind is away from the computer. The following is a favorite which appeared here last year, December 31, 2008.--SimplemindZen Taking u...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Bassui: The Sole Practice of Zen

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Zen Master Bassui writes in the Book, Mud and Water, "clearly seeing into one's nature is called practice. And the seat that put...
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Precepts: Living Awake and in the Truth, part 1

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Taking up the precept of the Way of Speaking Truthfully is often a first precept encountered and one of the most obvious, yet not always to ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Commentary 2-- Just This

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In the study of the self, we find that wherever we go, there we are . Gaining this sort of awareness of the self is central to practice. App...