My teacher said that I should go to Eiheiji, you realize that it is nothing special — ‘This is all it is?’ Then you can relax and get down to practising. That’s the reality, isn’t it?
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CLACK! by Trevor Leggett
The Abbot set Kyogen the Koan riddle: “What is your true face before your father and mother were born?” Baffled and furious Kyogen left the monastery but the riddle haunted him…
Season’s Greetings from all at Buddhism Now
With Season’s Greetings to you from everyone at Buddhism Now and Buddhist Publishing Group…
Forest and the Way Out, by Ananda Maitreya
Centuries passed by. Incalculable was the crowd at the inn now and many were the discussions as to the interpretations of what had been written on the slab at the signpost. Some professed to know what the original exactly meant and others disagreed and consequently discord arose, parties were formed and actual progress ceased. Those who showed special brain skill and capability to interpret the symbols on the slabs at the post and those who were honoured and looked upon by others for numerous other reasons now became leaders of each party…
Final Lesson, by Arthur Braverman
And he [Uchiyama Kôshô Roshi] told us ‘to look at zazen and not at him as our teacher’. It’s almost as if he knew some of us would become disappointed in him and he didn’t want our disappointment to carry over into our zazen…
Dalai Lama birthday greetings to Desmond Tutu
His Holiness the Dalai Lama sends birthday greetings to Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 6min film.
The Heart Sutra, Harada Sekkei Roshi
Our purpose for living is to become No-mind/No-self, and a person who has become No-mind/No-self is called a Buddha. Each action we make is completely Empty, it is Nothingness, and if we express this using words, this is the ‘Buddha-dharma’. It is not possible for the ego to intervene in the Dharma…
Land of the Disappearing Buddha
This is an old film about Buddhism in Japan, but well worth watching.
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