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Month: January 2011

Posted on January 8, 2011March 1, 2021

Muho of Antaiji takes a swing at Brad in ‘The Truth About Hardcore Zen’

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“A Natural Mindfulness”, the Book
Just to Sit
“The Place Where You Stop and Rest”
The Diamond Trap, the Thicket of Thorns
One Way or Another
My Advice
The Inconceivable Nature of the Wind
Applying the Pali Instructions
“Take the Backward Step”
Knees on the Ground
The Practice of Time
“To Enjoy Our Life”
Shunryu Suzuki on Shikantaza and the Theravadin Stages
Cuke Audio Podcast–With Guest Mark Foote
Mindfulness of Death
A Way of Living
“Emotions Are the Path”
More of What Shunryu Suzuki Actually Said
What Shunryu Suzuki Actually Said
Common Ground
Response to “Not the Wind, Not the Flag”
Not the Wind, Not the Flag
Anapanasati (“Discourse on Mindfulness When Breathing In or Out”)
Transition
Like an Eagle Sleeping in its Nest
Dual, Non-Dual–Comments on “The Dao Bums”
Action in the Absence of Choice
About Enlightenment
On the Meditative States
From the Great Book of the Decease
One Thing and Another
Meditation Manuals
I’m Ok with Bowing
“The Clear Light Dharmakaya Experience”
“For a Friend”, Revisited
A Natural Rhythm
The Tree of Knowledge
Letter to the Author of “The Dark Side of Dharma” (Anna Lutkajtis)
For a Friend
Shunryu Suzuki’s “Whole-Body Zazen”
At the Berkeley Zendo
The Early Record
“About”, “Disclaimer”
What Remains
Moving from the Source
Nothing but Happiness
“Does anyone else out there struggle with a good seated position?” (“American Zen” Facebook group)
Free and Clear Function
The Interval of Practice
A Quote From Pablo Neruda
“Does Nonthinking Require Effort?”
Attained Through the Body
The Diamond Sutra
Putting the Dharma Body to Work
The Center of Gravity
Action That Arises in the Breath
From Letters to Friends
Drawing Water and Chopping Wood
The Mudra of Zen
Letting the Mind Move
Tohei’s Four Points of Ki Aikido
Comment on “What’s So Special About the Lotus”, from Dao Bums
“Is the Suffocation Response Something You Experience While Sitting?”
Response to Comment on “What is So Special About the Lotus?” (The Dao Bums)
Old Habits
Aching-Legs Buddhism (comment on “The Dao Bums”)
About Completed Infinities (“True Nature”)
“The Cessation of In-breathing and Out-breathing” (comment on Tao Bums, edited)
Zen, Part Three–from “Dao Bums” (edited)
Zen (and Mindfulness), Part Two–from “Dao Bums” (edited)
Zen (and Mindfulness), Part One–from “Dao Bums”
Denko-e
Twenty-second Case: Hsueh Feng’s Turtle-Nosed Snake
The Job (comment on “No Zen in the West”)
How I Learned to Dance
The Case of the Suffocating Woman
Reverse Breathing (initial response on “Questions to Spring Forest Qigong students”, Dao Bums)
Reverse Breathing (response on “Questions to Spring Forest Qigong students”, Dao Bums)
Comment on “Rotating the Lower Dan Tien”, on Dao Bums
Effort, Effortlessness, Reconciliation
Chih Men’s Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves
“Turning to the Left, Turning to the Right, Following Up Behind”
“The Secret of the Golden Flower”
“Zen Catholic Nun – Sister Elaine MacInnis”
Finding the “I”
The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 22
Comment on “Mindfulness or Menmitsu?” (from Rutschman-Byler’s blog)
Conversation with Apech (Dao Bums)
Consciousness and the Mind
A Natural Mindfulness
An Image in the Place of an Image
The Rhythm of Things in a Natural Way of Living
Concentration, contemplation: response to “French Roast” (from Hardcore Zen)
Things as They Are & Logic
“What really matters at the end of life”
What was it?
How so?
The Backward Step of Turning the Light
Dogen’s “Genjo Koan”
Addendum to ‘D. L. Bartilink, “No Special Effort”, and the “Best of Ways”‘
The Normal Unfolding of Things
Limbering Up
Bat on a City Street
“Breath Gets Cut Off During Meditation”
“How do you properly drop your Brain into the Lower Dan Tien?”
About the Anatomy in “Fuxi’s Poem”
Fuxi’s Poem
Aviation Terms: A Conversation
The “Turning Phrase” of Zen
Not Knowing Isn’t Necessarily Not Doing
Study and Relaxation
The Way the Chi Returns
Consciousness as the Result of Contact
From the Start
The Circle of the Way
The Eyes Are Open in Zazen (Reprise)
The Eyes Are Open in Zazen
Remembering How to Breathe
Soto Zen and the Left Knee (Reply from Hardcorezen.info)
Research on the Sense of Self
Mind, Having No Fixed Abode, Should Flow Forth
Hearing the Sutra: the Lankavatara
Belief is a Part of Practice
Shikantaza
No Latent Conceits
Mind Like a Wall
What I’m Saying
Discrete as Opposed to Infinite Reality
Walking with a Compass and a Map
Self as a Function of the Senses
“Non-Thinking” (comment on Nyoho Zen)
The State of Mind Where Here is Moving (Reply on Brad’s Blog)
“Why Can’t the Tail Pass Too?”
Letting Go in Action: the Practice of Zazen
Skill and the Taking of Vows
The Measure of the Hall
“Good morning- where am I?”
“Something Other Than”
From the Temples in Egypt
Walking on the Ground of Reality
The Link Between the Waking and the Sleeping States
Crossing the Line
Does Practice Deepen In Retreat? (Comment on Brad Warner’s Blog)
The Necessity Is There
Proprioception, From Latin Proprius, Meaning “One’s Own”, “Individual”
Stretch at the Sacrum
The Heart of the Practice
The Real Zen (Comment on Brad Warner’s “Hardcore Zen” blog)
From My Own Experience
Mind and Bones and Breath
The Place the Zen Teacher’s Action Comes From
Shift or Flow?
“Written on a Match Box, It Would Be?”
The Focus of Attention on Where I Am, Excluding Nothing
Exhalation to Inhalation
How Seeing Things as They Really Are is Zazen Sitting Zazen
Suffering and the Five Groups
Being Absorbed in Cleaning the Desk
Feeling to the Surface of the Skin
Buddha Nature and Weird Conversations (comment on hardcore zen)
Consciousness Taking Place Without Motor Ability
Coming Back to Location
A Turning Point For Me
The Practice of Zazen in Words
The Working Ingredient of the Precepts
The Basis of All Actions
Riding the Ox Home
Houdini Developed an Ability to Feel
The Cranial-Sacral Rhythm and the Location of Consciousness (comment on Tao Bums)
What We Truly Believe (comment on “Hardcore Zen”)
Necessity that Places the Mind Just So
“A Lamp Onto Oneself”
Why the Lotus
How psychics receive their visions
What is this Zen-Stuff for? (from the comments on “Hardcore Zen”)
‘My Connection to Everything Around Me’
“Could you explain a bit more”, from Tao Bums
More on Waking Up and Falling Asleep
question on hypnogogic states during the day
“I tried your practice last night”- humbleone, from Tao Bums
“If You Can, Please Give an Example”- from Tao Bums
Referred Sensation (comment on Hardcore Zen)
A Morning Reflection
The Left Knee
Comment on Gudo Nishijima Video (Carapeto)
Visual Thinking
Sitting the lotus- from the full lotus thread on Tao Bums
“Wu Wei” and impeccability, from Tao Bums
Wu Wei
A bowl with a dusting of soap powder- comment on Brad Warner’s “Hardcore Zen”
How do we inspire ourselves to sit?- comment on Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen
Storing Ch’i in the Tan-T’ien (Response to Drew Hempel, from The Tao Bums)
Autogenic training and Nishijima’s SNS-PNS balance
The Meaning of the Ankh (reply on Tao Bums)
Storing chi at the tan-t’ien, from Tao Bums
response to “The Full Lotus”, “sex energy”, on Tao Bums
How I sit the lotus (from “Tao Bums”)
On the full lotus, from “Tao Bums”
Shunryu Suzuki, “Don’t Spend Your Time in Vain”
How continuity enters practice- (a letter to a friend, rethought)
Why the cross-legged posture?
Comment on Brad Warner’s blog entry, “Sitting In Chairs Is Not Zazen”
The feeling of mind
Letter to a friend, about “Remembering Kobun”
from a letter to a friend
The difficulty of practice, a note to Apech- from Tao Bums
email to Adam Tebbe, editor of Sweeping Zen
Defining Enlightenment, from “The Tao Bums” Discussion
Certifying Zen
‘Zazen’, from “The Mudra of Zen”
On the effectiveness of mudras (response on Tao Bums)
what we’re debating here
Waking Up and Falling Asleep
On the Egyptian ‘akh’
from a letter to a friend
2nd Life, The Online Sangha, and zazen
the cessation that the Gautamid described
Muho of Antaiji takes a swing at Brad in ‘The Truth About Hardcore Zen’
‘At some point within Buddhism do you lose the structure?’- manitou, on Tao Bums
“to be actualized by the myriad things” (Dogen)
on dreaming- from the Castaneda thread, on Tao Bums
“…where we are sits, stands, and moves beyond doubt.”
the breathing techniques..are they supposed to help you achieve a certain state of mind
response to ‘why does it happen to me’, from Tao Bums
seeing true nature- from Ted Biringer’s Flatbed Sutra blog
response to question, from Tao Bums
Reverse breathing
Response to Chunyi Lin interview, on Tao Bums
isolating the motion of the sacrum
what I am as where I am
response to Rainbow_Vein on Tao Bums
asleep/awake, from Tao Bums
response to question, from cat on Tao Bums
consciousness conditioned by ignorance, attachment, or aversion
hypnosis + ‘the most important thing’
from Hardcore Zen comments
Last time I saw Kobun
comment, Warner’s “Hardcore Zen”
The End of Suffering, from Brad Warner’s site
“attunement”- comment on double-binds, from Tao Bums
zazen (animation)
Have you ever really practiced non-thinking?
The Lancet of Seated Meditation (Zazenshin)
in Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, “make the inner like the outer” (Tao Bums)
from a Tao Bums discussion of moving objects with the mind
words from Shunryu Suzuki
the long and the short of inhalation and exhalation (from Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen blog)
Has anyone come anywhere close to ‘the end of all suffering’ even after decades of practice?
THE END OF SUFFERING IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU (from Brad Warner s Hardcore Zen blog)
Connecting the upper thighs and the perineum (from Tao Bums)
what I needed to learn myself was how to let it all fall together (from Tao Bums)
is enlightenment obtained with the body, or the mind (from Tao Bums)
How important is it to have one’s back completely (as much as possible) straight during meditation? How important are these postures anyway? (from Tao Bums)
can someone recommend some stretching program to get closer to full lotus? (from Tao Bums)
straighten the clothes and sit precariously
…about full lotus (part 2)
…about full lotus

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