Month: June 2011

I understand what you are saying about the difficulty of an intentional practice. I was doing a set of shape-mind (xing-yi) exercises that I learned from a book for a long time, and then last fall I just stopped doing them.

I still rely on the sense of location in consciousness, and relaxation. I remind myself that if I stay with consciousness and ...  read more

I just read the interview with Scott Edelstein, which I enjoyed- interesting to hear the news, as it were.

I used to go hear Kobun speak at the Santa Cruz zendo in the 70’s, when I was a student at UCSC. One thing I remember Kobun said was “take your time with the lotus”. I have finally learned to sit the lotus, although my ...  read more

Checking the quote CowTao posted I find the following:

“The word Prajnaparamita comes through in its Sanskrit form. This means “Perfection of insight”, the highest, clearest, most straightforward or most important insight. This word insight does not just refer to an intellectual insight like the solving of a mathematical equation. ...  read more