(from a correspondence with a friend)
hope your sitting is going well. I am still inspired by our conversation, and tonight I chance upon these words from Shunryu Suzuki:
“You may say that your mind is practicing zazen and ignore your body, the practice of your body. Sometimes when you think that you are doing zazen ...
Alright, I like to talk to myself, it’s true. Here I am, doing so again in the disguise of a comment on comments on comments.
My experience has been this: at some point in my practice, the long and the short of inhalation and exhalation enters in. It’s taken me a lot of years and a lot of luck to discover that the “cross-legged” ...
My understanding is that the four truths concerning suffering only apply when suffering exists. The Gautamid described suffering as “in short, the five groups of grasping”, so when there is suffering, then the origin of suffering is grasping in the five groups, the cessation of ignorance leads to the cessation of grasping, and the path ...
