January 4, 2009 – 8:53 pm
I received a call a while back, from one of my Chan sisters. She sounded anxious. She said that she was starting a new Heart Chan group at UC Berkeley. One of the other sisters from our group was suppose to help , but she had to go back to Taiwan for some reason and [...]
January 2, 2009 – 9:20 am
The body awoke early as usual on this New Years Day. I was up about my usual time of 6:30 am. It is still dark. It takes me a few minutes to get myself organized and awake enough to do morning sitting practice. It has been a couple of years now, I no longer think [...]
December 22, 2008 – 1:08 pm
There is an elderly couple in our condo complex. They are from Iran. Whenever I see them I speak to them in what little Farsi I know. They are pleased with that.
They come to us whenever they blow a fuse in their place and LZ or I throw the switch for them. A few month [...]
I received an email from my elder kyudo brother a few days ago. It was about the Asian Art Museum holding a lecture on Shaolin:
The Shaolin Fusion: Epitome of China’s Spiritual and Physical Culture?
With Andy Ferguson
This lecture will explore the fusion of China’s spiritual and physical culture in the Shaolin tradition. [...]
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics
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I came across three more reviews of this interesting book:
Zen at War
by Brian Victoria
Weatherhill, 1997. 228 pages.
Reviewed by Vladimir K, January 2005
Religion has often disappointed. Whether it has been paedophilic priests, suicidal Islamic terrorists, temple-burning Hindu nationalists, Jewish terrorists seeking a homeland, or self-aggrandising fundamentalist Christian presidents, the misuse of religious beliefs is starkly apparent [...]
* I came across this book and found it an interesting read. John Bright-Fey is a teacher of Martial Arts and several books on Zen. Below is a review of this book. I am not going to say this book is gospel, or from “an official source” but it is interesting reading. [...]
One of the things brought up at our Chan retreat was the word “Zen” and the karma attached to it from the War. How here in the West it has become a life style not so much a spirtual path. I had heard something before in another reading elsewhere, about if the elders of the [...]
Zanshin is a Japanese word meaning Reminding Heart or Mind. It is the name of the final position of the body in Kyudo ( Japanese archery) after releasing the arrow. When the mind is clear, the breath is slow and relaxed. The form has changed to formlessness, in a state that would be called Wu [...]
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