Yesterday posted again about trash. I used to think of it as a cosmetic problem but, especially after seeing the documentary Trashed, I realized how insidious the global trash problem is and how there is a continuum from litter to microscopic plastic particles in the oceans and awful chemicals like dioxins. And no one can say it's a local problem because the world is a big soup which mixes itself constantly.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Gaining Idea
Gaining idea usually limits
our meaning of practice. Our practice has limitless
meaning in it. So that is why Zen has eternal life in it. And why Zen
helps us in its true sense is because it will cut off the root of the problems
we have. If you know how to practice zazen, you will know how to cut off your
root of suffering-- root of trouble. That is why our practice is valuable.
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com - - Excerpt edited by DC
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-B as found on shunryusuzuki.com - - Excerpt edited by DC
Friday, January 30, 2015
Trash in Indonesia again
There's a tiny piece in the Sanur Weekly that the Buleleng River is clogged with trash. Nothing on the Internet about that but
Here's a piece from the Daily Mail on a trash-clogged river in Java
Here's a piece from the Daily Mail on a trash-clogged river in Java
Inviting Enlightenment
Suzuki is reading from Gakudo-yojin-shu, Section 3, in Reiho Masunaga (Ed. And Trans.), Zen for Daily Living, Tokyo, Shunjusha Publishing, 1964, pp. 56–72. (Dogen's Guidelines for Studying the Way)
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Boats and Rafts
Suzuki is
reading from Gakudo-yojin-shu, Section 3, in Reiho Masunaga (Ed. And Trans.),
Zen for Daily Living, Tokyo, Shunjusha Publishing, 1964, pp. 56–72. (Dogen's Guidelines for Studying the Way)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Cannot Escape Zazen
As long as you
practice, you cannot, you know-- you have no reason why you should stop practice [laughs]-- why you should give up. There is no reason. We are
completely, you know, caught by zazen [laughing]. Completely caught by it. You can stop it one or two days, or one year or two years. Or you
may think, “I shall not practice zazen any more as long as I am alive.” But
still you cannot get out of it. You are still in zazen. You cannot escape
our zazen, and you have no reason to. This is the -- what is
zazen. You think you can stop, that's all. But actually you cannot.
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com - - Excerpt edited by DC
See Eyes of Buddhism - for more along these lines.
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com - - Excerpt edited by DC
See Eyes of Buddhism - for more along these lines.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Evanescence of Life
When we feel the
evanescence of life directly, we will not have any more ego-centered idea. And
our practice will be quite pure and strong. And on each moment, we will do our
best in our practice. That is the most important point in our way.
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Excerpt edited by DC
Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 66-12-17-A as found on shunryusuzuki.com - Excerpt edited by DC
Indonesia Drug Deaths - tobacco #1 and alcohol #2 for sure
Here's a good brief article on Indonesia drug deaths, published yesterday in the Jakarta Post eight days after Indonesia executed six foreigners for smuggling some drugs in. Some more executions are coming soon. Linked to an article recently on this on cuke.com's saunters - 1-16-15. Just saw Amanpour CNN interview with Prez Joko Widodo where she asked about the executions and he said that 50 (last time 40) people a day die from narcotics so zero tolerance. She only mentioned that some nations had withdrawn diplomats, no hard questions following up. Fluff. - DC
Monday, January 26, 2015
To be Buddha or to be Boss
We say, although we have
Buddha nature, if you do not practice it - in other words if you try to
understand it some other way - you will not understand it.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Forget Everything
The best way is to forget
everything. Then your mind is calm and your mind always wide enough or clear
enough to see things and to feel things as they are without any effort.
This excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture closely follows yesterday's from 66-11-30 and is titled Beyond Consciousness for the edited version in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 127. - Excerpt edited by DC
This excerpt from a Shunryu Suzuki lecture closely follows yesterday's from 66-11-30 and is titled Beyond Consciousness for the edited version in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 127. - Excerpt edited by DC
Saturday, January 24, 2015
My computer still in hospital.
My computer in hospital so we started this blogger page for new posts. - DC
Establishing our Practice
We should establish our
practice where there is no practice or no enlightenment. As long as we practice
zazen in the area where there is practice and enlightenment there is no chance
to make perfect peace for ourselves. In other words we must firmly believe
in our true nature. It is beyond our conscious realm -- conscious experience.
This is not an easy Shunryu Suzuki excerpt to understand. Especially the 2nd sentence. Like he advised, don't stick to what he said. This comes from 66-11-30 - Excerpt edited by DC and is titled Beyond Consciousness for the edited version in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 127). When I get my computer back I'll see how these statements were treated in the book. - DC
This is not an easy Shunryu Suzuki excerpt to understand. Especially the 2nd sentence. Like he advised, don't stick to what he said. This comes from 66-11-30 - Excerpt edited by DC and is titled Beyond Consciousness for the edited version in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 127). When I get my computer back I'll see how these statements were treated in the book. - DC