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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 14, 2008 – 4:17 pm
I came across an article called a Buddhist Response to Global Warming. The Title reminded me of Brother Ronald’s post on that subject and my post about Karma and Environment. Following that title I came across this website Ecological Buddhism.
It was interesting to read some other Buddhist thoughts on our spiritual connection & responsibly to [...]
October 5, 2007 – 1:54 pm
Reading some of the posts here from JMJM, I am getting a better understanding of Karma. After seeing a video today and some others on Youtube.com, as a sailor it really struck a cord and more so as an environmentally concerned person.
I am wondering, the thought came to me,”bad karma” seems to me [...]
February 23, 2007 – 6:00 pm
I was told many times that karma visits those with “cleaner body”. I never quite understood this logic, though for the last three four years I have witnessed as well as experienced too many incidences of such occurrence.
At the dinner with Harry, his four pound fish and New Zealand lamb chop, I have arrived [...]
September 8, 2006 – 11:20 pm
When the plane was circulating on top of San Jose trying to land, my heart felt swollen at the center. Not a discomfort like those I felt from my father, but a hollow, swollen and pumped feeling.
Chin An came over to meet me at the airport. He was my roommate at Berkeley 40 [...]
It was during a regular English meditation session at my house on a Wednesday night. I remember I was sitting near he restroom.
Then Lynn came in and walked toward me. She said something like she needed to sit closer to me or something. Out of the blue, my entire left arm became [...]
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