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. [...]
We had seven in session #5. The closing words of encouragement I provided was as follows:
Meditation is a great way to bring us back to ourselvesWhere we can really experience our full being, beyond all our unhealthy habitual patterns. In the stillness and silence of meditation, we can return to that deep inner connection that [...]
Had 5 attendees at session #4.
As in past practice, I made a closing statement as follows:
When we are feeling down or feel that the things are getting too heavy, we remind ourselves that quiet mediation will help us reconnect to the source from which we came from. Meditation can effectively help us reach our inner self which is a [...]
I was deeply honored to lead the Diamond Bar English session on July 13, 2008, as Brother JMJM and Sister Emily were out of town. I have been reading several books on the Zero-Point Field, Akashic Field, and Consciousness written by several well renowned physicists who are leaders in their field. While much of it [...]
There seems to be interest in learning mediation at my 1000-person workplace in downtown Los Angeles. A co-worker, who is a member of our workplace yoga group, knows that I meditate. So she suggested that I start a class to augment the short mediation that is done during those weekly yoga clasess. I started weekly sessions on July [...]
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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