Tag Archives: Zen

Zazen

Posted on July 21, 2024 by JRL

Breathing in and outIsn’t just for the cushion;It’s the entire thing.If you practice just sitting,This moment is everywhere. Try to stop breathing, And your attention can’t last;You are mind and body.Pretending at something elseRequires a lot of thinking. Everything you … Continue reading →

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Salt Dolls and Other Temporal Measures

Posted on July 18, 2024 by JRL

In a dharma talk given July 15th for the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (as part of their Summer 2024 Commit to Sit program), Zen teacher Norman Fischer said something quite interesting and profound. He was discussing the … Continue reading →

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Prajnaparamita

Posted on June 25, 2024 by JRL

With what great faculty would you describea something that is nothing in itself – an emptiness that does not rise or fall,but is and isn’t, both, at the same time, and lights, but doesn’t land, adrift in time(which is not … Continue reading →

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LJ Interests Meme Results

Posted on April 21, 2006 by John

Borrowed from Ed Book. After reading his results, I was intringued, but did not imagine that my own results would prove equally as insightful. I’m really quite surprised at how closely this set of ten selected interests REALLY sums up … Continue reading →

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Zen and the Art of Arc Welding

Posted on May 1, 2004 by John

Split ends of clock’s tick and flee from the circle of power where union is meet in a cooper’s wheel, hard and hot like fire from welding’s arc and concentrated blue flame. It’s not so much the trip, he says,  … Continue reading →

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