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A Natural Mindfulness–PDF

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A Natural Mindfulness

  • Waking Up and Falling Asleep

  • Post: “I tried your practice last night”- humbleone, from “The Dao Bums”

  • Post: Feedback from ‘humbleone’

  • Post: The Case of the Suffocating Woman

  • Post: Old Habits

  • D. L. Bartelink, “No Special Effort”, and the “Best of Ways”

  • Limbering Up

  • Post: Common Ground

  • Shunryu Suzuki on Shikantaza and the Theravadin Stages

  • “Take the Backward Step”

  • Applying the Pali Instructions

  • The Inconceivable Nature of the Wind

  • The Diamond Trap, the Thicket of Thorns

  • “The Place Where You Stop and Rest”

  • Just to Sit

  • Appendix–“For a Friend”, Revisited

  • Appendix–A Way of Living

  • Appendix–From the Early Record

An Unauthorized and Incomplete Guide to Zazen

  • Preface

  • Zazen

  • Gautama the Buddha’s Way of Life

  • Flying by the Seat of the Pants

  • Feeling at the Surface of the Skin

  • The Activity of the Stretch

  • Alignment of the Spine and the Cranial-Sacral Rhythm

  • Fuxi’s Bridge

  • Shikantaza

  • Yuanwu Quotes an Ancient Master

  • The Gautamid Offers A Practice

  • From the Gospel of Thomas

  • Drawing Water and Chopping Wood

  • The Three Levels of T’ai Chi

  • The Great Sixfold (Sense-)Field

  • Yuanwu on the Transmission of Mind

  • Practice and Verification

  • Comments and Suggestions, Welcome

The Mudra of Zen

  • The Mudra of Zen

  • Waking Up

  • Translations of Motion in the Lotus

  • Shunryu Suzuki and the Zen of Ordinary Activity

  • The Gospel of Mary and the Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone

  • Zazen

  • Waking Up and Falling Asleep (Original)

  • Kobun Chino Otogawa on Zazen (Remembering Kobun)

  • Letting Go in Action: the Practice of Zazen

  • The Bridge That Flows

  • Reverse Breathing: the Ilio-Lumbars Engage in the Movement of Breath

  • Fuxi’s Poem

  • D. L. Bartelink, “No Special Effort”, and the “Best of Ways” (Original)

  • Dogen’s “Genjo Koan”

  • Shikantaza and Gautama the Buddha’s “Pleasant Way of Living”

  • Simultaneity of Things

  • Turning to the Left, Turning to the Right, Following Up Behind (Original)

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