Zazen Notes

Gautama’s teaching revolved around action, around one specific kind of action:

…I say that determinate thought is action. When one determines, one acts by deed, word, or thought.

(AN III 415, Pali Text Society Vol III p 294)

“When one determines”—when a person exercises volition, or choice, action of “deed, ...  read more

From “Emotions Are the Path”, on “The Dao Bums” online forum site:

My emotional state usually has a sort of positive uplift to it, if I’ve taken care of my health.  If the positive uplift goes missing, then I find I need to revisit recent experience, oftentimes to review what belongs to me and what belongs ...  read more

Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of Shunryu Suzuki’s lecture, “Breathing”:

If time come, space will follow. So there’s no choice for you. But when you separate idea of time and space you feel as if you have some choice, but actually you have to do something or you have to not-to-do something. …

All what ...  read more