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Alright, I like to talk to myself, it’s true. Here I am, doing so again in the disguise of a comment on comments on comments.
My experience has been this: at some point in my practice, the long and the short of inhalation and exhalation enters in. It’s taken me a lot of years and a lot of luck to discover that the “cross-legged” ...
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 ...
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 ...