Zazen Notes

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

A friend of mine took me to hear Kobun Chino Otogawa speak at the Santa Cruz Zen Center in about 1971. Kobun had a way of saying things where I thought he was speaking to me, and he was describing what I had to do (or not do) in order to be on-time or in time with my life. There was this sense of the future coming on, and although he could have no ...  read more

Dogen said: “To study the way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”

Simply by being where we are, we can come to forget the self. The sense of place engenders an ability to feel, and each thing we feel enters into the sense of place- even before we know it.

This being where we are with each thing, even before ...  read more