tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post1768497682442301867..comments2023-06-20T13:05:35.901+01:00Comments on Ordinary Extraordinary: It will be gone with the otherShoninhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03635409886545725801noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-14058907871480020382007-06-06T22:41:00.000+01:002007-06-06T22:41:00.000+01:00By the way Genjo, I also posted it on flapping mou...By the way Genjo, I also posted it on <A HREF="http://flappingmouths.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-will-be-gone-with-other.html" REL="nofollow">flapping mouths</A> where it attracted quite a bit of interest.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes<BR/><BR/>JustinShoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635409886545725801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-17970175805192293492007-06-05T21:08:00.000+01:002007-06-05T21:08:00.000+01:00Genjo!What an honour!:gasshos:Genjo!<BR/><BR/>What an honour!<BR/><BR/>:gasshos:Shoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635409886545725801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-60356466872788273062007-06-05T20:46:00.000+01:002007-06-05T20:46:00.000+01:00Justin, it is very gratifying to see that you so c...Justin, it is very gratifying to see that you so clearly understood and were moved by my Dharma Talk. Thank you for sharing your experience with others.Genjohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07246083843961961239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-6014871998632590352007-04-08T05:12:00.000+01:002007-04-08T05:12:00.000+01:00Hello,I hope it is okay if I pass this on. If you...Hello,<BR/><BR/>I hope it is okay if I pass this on. If you know someone appropriate, you might tell them about it.<BR/><BR/>Gassho, Jundo <BR/><BR/>P.S. - Thank you for the interesting posts. <BR/><BR/>______________________________________________________<BR/><BR/> <B>ANNOUNCEMENT </B><BR/><BR/>We would like announce that the doors are 'officially' open on our <B>ONLINE ZENDO & SANGHA</B>, and our <B>VIDEO-BLOG</B>. We also soon will begin <B>LIVE online-video broadcasts of weekly Zazen sittings, talks and multi-day Sesshin </B>:<BR/><BR/>treeleafzen.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>The website, blog and broadcast sittings are meant for people who cannot travel to sit and be with others, perhaps due to health concerns, or not driving at night, having to take care of kids, or their living in a place without a Sangha close by. Our Zazen sittings and Sangha will always be close by.<BR/><BR/>For now, we have recorded Zazen sittings and talks, such as this <B>"Sit-a-long Zazen":</B><BR/><BR/>treeleafzen.blogspot.com/2007/04/sit-long-zazen.html<BR/><BR/>We also have <B>online and Ipod-ready Zazen timers </B>. Although our online Sangha is meant mainly for people who cannot travel far from home, we hope anyone and everyone will feel free to use and download our timers and broadcast sittings. They are our gift to everyone who finds them helpful (for example, who might wish to use the Ipod/Mp3 version for some Zazen at work).<BR/><BR/>www.treeleaf.org/meditation.html<BR/><BR/>We are a Soto Zen Sangha in the lineage of Gudo Wafu Nishijima, with teacher Jundo Cohen (who resides in Ibaraki, Japan and, sometimes, Florida with wife and son). Our focus is on a very down-to-earth, <I>'Just Sitting'</I> Zazen practice (not much for ceremonies, statues, beads, costumes or other bells and whistles).<BR/><BR/>www.treeleaf.org/aboutus.html<BR/><BR/>We hope to establish a true community, and questions or comments can be sent to Jundo at any time, or posted on the blog or community forum (www.treeleaf.org/meeting.html).<BR/><BR/>If you know anyone who, due to health concerns or the like, cannot commute to sit with others, please introduce them to our site.<BR/><BR/>Like life and the universe, it is all Free! Everyone is always welcome, and there is no being "far away."<BR/><BR/>Gassho, Treeleaf Zendo<BR/><BR/>www.treeleaf.orgjundo cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564338025084888194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-91916451789745375582007-03-21T07:39:00.000+00:002007-03-21T07:39:00.000+00:00Hi Pa!I'm glad you enjoyed it. I always felt there...Hi Pa!<BR/><BR/>I'm glad you enjoyed it. I always felt there was something fishy about the idea of a permanent Buddha Nature myself. There are many reputable teachers (maybe even a majority of them) who teach it this way. I think it originates with the Mahayana Tathagatagarbha sutras<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagatagarbha<BR/><BR/>But in one of those sutras, the Lankavatara Sutra it is explained that this doctrine is a teaching method, a simplified, positive account intended perhaps as a cure for the tendency for negative Madhyamaka philosophy (Nagarjuna's for example) to be misinterpreted as nihilism.Shoninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635409886545725801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091905.post-62760077650885197132007-03-20T21:31:00.000+00:002007-03-20T21:31:00.000+00:00That little dialogue at the end made me laugh~I sp...That little dialogue at the end made me laugh~<BR/>I spent absolutely ages clinging to the idea that there was something pure and unchanging in my mind somewhere that was the Buddha Mind - but it never felt right somehow...<BR/>Thanks for teaching me the word "stasis" too :-)PAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10903236008640499571noreply@blogger.com