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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
Post: Tohei’s Four Points of Ki Aikido
Shunryu Suzuki’s “Whole-Body Zazen”
D. L. Bartelink, “No Special Effort”, and the “Best of Ways”
Limbering Up
“For a Friend”, Revisited
Turning to the Left, Turning to the Right, Following Up Behind
Post: Common Ground
A Way of Living
Shunryu Suzuki on Shikantaza and the Theravadin Stages
Appendix–From the Early Record
Appendix–Kinesthesiology of Fascial Support

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
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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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