bret
@bret2.bsky.social
Zen layman, Katagiri lineage. sitting upright, bearing witness to vast beauty in every direction, drenched in human trifles, mischief and heedless suffering, brief lives frittered. True eternity still flows. 🙏
Not exactly. There is no thing that you can want that is zen. The wanting, the “I,” the “I wanting” separate you from what actually is. If there is anything to be called zen it is non seperation.
February 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Not exactly. There is no thing that you can want that is zen. The wanting, the “I,” the “I wanting” separate you from what actually is. If there is anything to be called zen it is non seperation.
“when you really want to know who you are or what the real significance of human life very naturally you return to silence..this silence is vast..like spring water endlessly coming up out of the earth..where does this spring water come?….This is where you have to sit down." dianin katagiri roshi
February 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“when you really want to know who you are or what the real significance of human life very naturally you return to silence..this silence is vast..like spring water endlessly coming up out of the earth..where does this spring water come?….This is where you have to sit down." dianin katagiri roshi
I only benefited by my early Vipassana silences with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield @ Barre, Mass. Their explicit guidance an excellent foundation. Ultimately I’ve come to roam the vast space of zazen, “shikantaza.”🙏
February 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I only benefited by my early Vipassana silences with Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield @ Barre, Mass. Their explicit guidance an excellent foundation. Ultimately I’ve come to roam the vast space of zazen, “shikantaza.”🙏
Buddhism’s root source of what many know as mindfulness. Vipassana practice generally more thoroughgoing than what has been variously adapted and popularized as “mindfulness”
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Buddhism’s root source of what many know as mindfulness. Vipassana practice generally more thoroughgoing than what has been variously adapted and popularized as “mindfulness”
Yes and yes. Buddhism is non theistic. Shakyamuni, the historic buddha, was a man not a god. the qualities he possessed and practices he taught can be experienced by all sentient beings. Once enlightened, each then strive to relieve the sufferings of all other beings.
January 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Yes and yes. Buddhism is non theistic. Shakyamuni, the historic buddha, was a man not a god. the qualities he possessed and practices he taught can be experienced by all sentient beings. Once enlightened, each then strive to relieve the sufferings of all other beings.
That is only mind’s game. Chi still flows.
January 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
That is only mind’s game. Chi still flows.
Except this is not so. At the phenomenal level acts can be good, bad, or neutral depending intent or effect. Does it harm, cause suffering? aid, prevent or relieve suffering? effects may be subtle or obvious, immediate or delayed, intention or inadvertent. At absolute level, no self, no karma. 🧘🏽
January 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Except this is not so. At the phenomenal level acts can be good, bad, or neutral depending intent or effect. Does it harm, cause suffering? aid, prevent or relieve suffering? effects may be subtle or obvious, immediate or delayed, intention or inadvertent. At absolute level, no self, no karma. 🧘🏽
I can only happily offer a 54yr old, 46yr old and a 9 yr old
December 31, 2024 at 1:33 AM
I can only happily offer a 54yr old, 46yr old and a 9 yr old
Jimmy would be the first to agree. 🙏
December 31, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Jimmy would be the first to agree. 🙏
In fairness, no “fight” exists in Buddhism. While clinging or avoiding desired or undesired “thoughts, feelings, perceptions,” is the raw material of suffering, rather than “fighting,” i.e. suppressing or avoiding we begin with generosity, patience, compassion for our deluded self. 🙏
December 30, 2024 at 3:31 AM
In fairness, no “fight” exists in Buddhism. While clinging or avoiding desired or undesired “thoughts, feelings, perceptions,” is the raw material of suffering, rather than “fighting,” i.e. suppressing or avoiding we begin with generosity, patience, compassion for our deluded self. 🙏
Or perhaps allow the wild horse its free range while you abide right here, right now in silent stillness, immersed in clarity, awareness. The horse will eventually slow, even occasionally quietly rest. “Give no thought to thoughts, gently return to breath breathing breath.” 🧘🏽
December 28, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Or perhaps allow the wild horse its free range while you abide right here, right now in silent stillness, immersed in clarity, awareness. The horse will eventually slow, even occasionally quietly rest. “Give no thought to thoughts, gently return to breath breathing breath.” 🧘🏽
Yes, in broadest sense this meets a most general description of mediation, cultivating such mindfulness is life enhancing. Yet, the clarity and awareness resting in silent stillness, when the veil created by our doing, thinking, being is removed, is of another degree. 🧘🏽
December 28, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Yes, in broadest sense this meets a most general description of mediation, cultivating such mindfulness is life enhancing. Yet, the clarity and awareness resting in silent stillness, when the veil created by our doing, thinking, being is removed, is of another degree. 🧘🏽
Strictly speaking,known hormetic mitochondrial benefits is limited to pretty intense physical stressors; ice bath, sauna, physical exercising to an anaerobic level, etc. But I freely extend it to pursuits of intellectual rigor and attention, such as you’ve chosen, as surely “anti-atrophy”🙏
December 28, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Strictly speaking,known hormetic mitochondrial benefits is limited to pretty intense physical stressors; ice bath, sauna, physical exercising to an anaerobic level, etc. But I freely extend it to pursuits of intellectual rigor and attention, such as you’ve chosen, as surely “anti-atrophy”🙏
Shirin-yoku has an element of non-preferential mindfulness that can cultivate a deepened sense of connection to the forest, something many of us are sadly without. This connecting has objectively measurable good effects on heart rate, blood pressure, sense of well being. No harm can come of it. 🙏
December 27, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Shirin-yoku has an element of non-preferential mindfulness that can cultivate a deepened sense of connection to the forest, something many of us are sadly without. This connecting has objectively measurable good effects on heart rate, blood pressure, sense of well being. No harm can come of it. 🙏
whenever we evoke non-lethal stressors (you’ve mentioned meditation, a fundamental challenge to ego-driven identity narrative) there is potential to nurture resilience at cellular/mitochondrial level, neural and other. This is known as hormesis
December 27, 2024 at 6:08 PM
whenever we evoke non-lethal stressors (you’ve mentioned meditation, a fundamental challenge to ego-driven identity narrative) there is potential to nurture resilience at cellular/mitochondrial level, neural and other. This is known as hormesis
Next, go with Lodge cast iron pizza pan, heat it as oven preheats ~30 min. indestructible at ~1/3 price.
December 23, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Next, go with Lodge cast iron pizza pan, heat it as oven preheats ~30 min. indestructible at ~1/3 price.
Outsider? Define outsider. Dude’s on the inside looking out. F**k’d-up.
December 20, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Outsider? Define outsider. Dude’s on the inside looking out. F**k’d-up.