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 ...
THE END OF SUFFERING IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU (from Brad Warner s Hardcore Zen blog)
Hey to Brad & all,
As you know, Dogen opens “Fukan zazen gi” by wondering why, if the whole being is far beyond defilement, anyone could believe in a method to polish it.
I think you’ve left that out of your discussion, and that’s the hardest part of Buddhism to comprehend, which is why it was Dogen s question on the way ...
Connecting the upper thighs and the perineum (from Tao Bums)
The process (connecting the upper thighs and the perineum) is difficult to describe, because the fundamental is the occurrence of consciousness, and how the occurrence of consciousness resounds in the stretch of the fascia. The lion is totally relaxed, and enters into motion totally relaxed, because the action comes out of feeling generated by the ...