‘However, everything I’ve just said – the seeing of the difference between fact and opinion, the ability to simply see everything arising, one thing after another – is only the first step.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — When you do zazen for awhile.
‘When you do zazen for awhile, you come to see that all there is is that little shadow of a perception which has nothing to do with your thoughts; and just being able to see that, you are brought to a point of freedom from suffering.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — When you sit, you’re sitting and when you stand, you’re standing.
‘When you sit, you’re sitting and when you stand, you’re standing, and there is no contradiction.
The contradiction takes place in your mind when you make a distinction applying the past to the present.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — People are deluded in that they see only what looks like their own self in operation.
‘People are deluded in that they see only what looks like their own self in operation, and fail to see their broad existence in which everything is simply coming together.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Morning meditation — You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind.
‘You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.’
Gien Inour Roshi
Insights into Thinking.
We suffer, we are stuck in some kind of pain, mostly mental — mental torment, mental pain.
Buddhism now 