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Clear Voice « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). It’s said that when the Buddha preached the Dharma, he did it in a voice that was somewhere between speech and song; the Japanese expression of this teaching is called. 聲明 or 声明, “clear voice”) . This half-singing eased the burden on the listener; it made the Buddha’s words easier to absorb. How to express Dharma? When people chant, what is the feeling? An unaf...

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Functional Dementia | It's Time for Your Meds. | Page 2

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It's Time for Your Meds. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Yes, It Gets Better. But Sometimes it Takes a While. October 11, 2011. Happy National Coming Out Day! A couple of days ago as I was following the rabbit trails that lead from one blog to another, I stumbled across this posting about Jamey Rodemeyer. The boy from upstate New York who killed himself after enduring anti-gay bullying. What stuck with me was this comment to the post:. Not to say that there were not bri...

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Matt | Functional Dementia

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It's Time for Your Meds. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Just a 40 something, tattooed , buddhist, nurse, living life in Columbus, Ohio with my partner of 14 years, trying to make sense of it all. I'm opinionated to a fault and politically correct would never be used to describe me. It's time for your meds. Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago? September 6, 2012. That’s the question being asked (again) by the republican presidential campaign. The US. economy IS in bette...

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Waiting for the Sincere Question « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). Waiting for the Sincere Question. My grandmother we called her Oma struggled with Alzheimer’s before passing away a few years ago. One evening after dinner, during her last Christmas visit with our family, we were sitting around the table Oma, my brother, Tracy, and I. Oma took a cookie from her plate, held it up, and asked, What is it? And since the rule is we...

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Nyohō Zen « the look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma « Page 2

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). Newer posts →. Waiting for the Sincere Question. One of us, in the gentle way that people do, said, Oma, that’s a cookie. She looked irritated. Again: What is it? How to make them, she said. She held up the cookie again. What IS it? We all looked hard at that cookie and said, Wow, Oma, I don’t know. That was how we left it. There is an old rule that a teacher s...

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brainwaves « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). Thoughts on Not Thinking about Non-thinking. One of Dogen’s favorite encounter stories goes like this:. When Priest Yaoshan was sitting in meditation a monk asked, ”What do you think about, sitting in steadfast composure? Yaoshan said, “I think not thinking.”. The monk said, “How do you think not thinking? Yaoshan said, “Non-thinking.”. Ō (非思量). The. Like so ma...

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shike « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). If only they had more tools. This is why I got into Zen, and this is something I like, so this must be the only thing that has any value or carries any authenticity. In the Soto tradition, the people formally known as “Zen masters,” or. Around, you cannot have a formally recognized training monastery. At least one person there needs to be that resource. In Japa...

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non-thinking « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). Thoughts on Not Thinking about Non-thinking. One of Dogen’s favorite encounter stories goes like this:. When Priest Yaoshan was sitting in meditation a monk asked, ”What do you think about, sitting in steadfast composure? Yaoshan said, “I think not thinking.”. The monk said, “How do you think not thinking? Yaoshan said, “Non-thinking.”. Ō (非思量). The. Like so ma...

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What Are the Depths to Which You’ll Go? « Nyohō Zen

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The look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma. Principles of Zazen (Shōbōgenzō Zazengi). Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen (Fukanzazengi). What Are the Depths to Which You’ll Go? To believe it. But mostly, for me, it was poetic talk. So early on, from before I ever sat on a cushion or met a Buddhist teacher, my version of practice was to look at the person across from me and ask myself, “Are we the same? 8221; It was “Am I capable of the same things that person is capable of? It doesn’t work...