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Following is a new series, serial, storyline, a lifelong practice intertwined with the work. Beginning where Field Of Weeds left off, itself a realization of what The Zen Revolution uncovered: The archetype of the field of weeds. I first encountered this in nature. I've always been attracted to abandoned fields, where the natural forces won against someone’s idea. No more clean lines and monotonous order, instead a swirling chaos of weeds and flowers, so beautifully arranged. A stand of trees, all the intersecting branches and scattered light moving in the wind -- there’s some meaning beyond the simple fact that it exists. It conveys something of the place from which it came. It became alive in me. I first noticed when I had to do the morning bell chant at Musangsa, solo. I’m not a vocalist. I don’t have any natural ability with the voice. I could do it, but not clearly. Out of desperation, I recalled the sunlight through the trees, and I found my voice. It took a few years for me to understand this. My voice became the same as the sunlight through the trees. When I chanted from that place, it conveyed the same information. Then it slowly began to dawn on me that I should live this way. I've moved from Seoul. For most of the year I'm living and training at Baekdamsa, a large temple-complex in a deep forest of the inner Sorak Valley. It’s where Man Hae (1879-1944) attained enlightenment and wrote the manifesto for the Korean independence movement. Since I’ll be there for the next four years, and largely offline, these blog posts are automated. I’m completely off-line until the end of August. Tags: man hae, musangsa, the zen revolution
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IMHO, the reason for all of our diseases are the tense nervous system. Our body is very tense because of this. Psychosomatics! But if we learn to relax your mind, the body will recover itself. Our body has an innate self-healing mechanism. IMHO, First, our internal resource will be spent on self-healing of the body.. After the self-healing of the body, our internal resource begins to develop more interesting things.: it will begin to develop the latent subtle function and services of our body. As we have a lot of interesting things! But the unknown and mysterious power can not express themselves because they are in their infancy and the undeveloped state - they do not have the internal resource, that resource until we need it for health. But when we relax and learn to live in a relaxed state, the first internal resource that will heal us, and then begin the development of higher and more complex nervous, mental, and spiritual functions! At first I did not realize it. What kind of internal resource everyone says? But then I realized ... When we are less often the skin, then first is bleeding, but then the blood ceases to move. When a speck of dust falls to us in the eye, then it follows, along with a tear. And so on ... I learned how to relax through meditation. I began to study meditation exercises in a complex, systemically. I was 10 years of meditation school Wu Chan Zhong Qigong and the result has made a very good health, never get tired. Within three months of practice I have ceased to swell and hurt his feet, half a year has passed, and varicose veins for 10 years I have never had a headache, but before I had a terrible migraine attacks once a week. I now live, and feel the bliss, I want to fly. I look at 28 years, no one guessed that I was bigger. And actually I have 41! Several years ago I met a group of people who also wanted to study the practice of qigong. It was very interesting to see how they change! The best part is that qigong is universal. Tablets are selective for each disease need a special tool. A Qigong heals all diseases. This is because the cure is, of course, not the qigong. Qigong just leads our internal resources in order to optimize it, allows you to wake up to our own, natural self-healing mechanisms. And there's nothing more powerful than our own resources, which has been coined for millions of years of evolution. http://en.dzendo.orgTags: meditation, qigong
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Originally posted by vatoyogaold at InspirationTags: ancient writings, esotericism, legends, meditation, mythology, myths, philosophy, prometheus, secret knowledge, upanishads, veda, yoga, йога, медитация
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Originally posted by vatoyogaold at MantraTags: ancient writings, esotericism, legends, meditation, mythology, myths, philosophy, prometheus, secret knowledge, upanishads, veda, yoga, йога, медитация
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I caught the second half of American Public Media's radio program, Speaking of Faith, this morning and thought folks in this community would be interested. The program is called Burma Buddhism and Power and is described as: "A look inside the spiritual culture of Burma, exploring the meaning of monks taking to the streets there in September, the way in which religion and military rule are intertwined, and how Buddhism remains a force in and beyond the current crisis." It features an interview with Ingrid Jordt, "an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, former Buddhist nun, and author of Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement." I found her words about the bravery of the Buddhist monks, as well as her take on the need for compassion in confronting oppression, incredibly powerful and moving. Here's the website, which includes a link to hear the radio program as well as to hear the complete interview with Jordt (they couldn't fit the entire interview into the hour-long show): http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/burma/index.shtmlCross-posted to: buddhistsbuddhists_fyadbuddhists_mzen_buddhistszen_recoveryTags: buddhist monks, burma, myanmar
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Hi, I’m a Dutch woman, new on LJ and in this community.
Some recent entries in this community immediately felt familiar to me.
I realize however that Buddhists, like Christians or Muslims, don’t form one community.
That shows on LJ, in different communities involving Buddhism. And after once visiting this community I already got the impression, that
< what we have in common >, maybe is not even the core of Buddhism. The overlaps may be even more arbitrary and more detailed than I realized, at first.
People are from different cultures, countries, social standings; have had (or are having- if any -) different levels and sorts of educations, occupations and social relations; have different intellectual intelligence, emotional intelligence, taste, aesthetics, ethics, sensory orientation (auditive, visual, etc.); have different reasons for, methods and goals in occupying themselves in Buddhism, have reached different levels of enlightenment, etc. etc.
--- Luckily having no expectations is a Buddhist exercise? In a haiku- and in a ‘whatiweartoday’-community, I perceived that - due to expectations - there was some understandable, justifiable disappointment in the - say - kind of, in fact < quality of input > they were getting. Well, let’s name it: there may be people who understandably, justifiably, think that they really know what - like a proper haiku and cool clothing - Buddhism is really about, and/or think that they are really practicing Buddhism like it is supposed to be practiced, according to authoritative holy books or Buddha himself, and/or réally consistent and disciplined. And on the other end of the continuum there are persons - like me - who feel drawn to, and inspired by Buddhism, take it seriously, but share sòme ideas and ideals ‘to an extent’ and practice it merely as a guide for conducting oneself.
--- Are they, am I, less worthy, perhaps? Or in the wrong community? I read the guidelines and ‘About Zen/ …’ by butsz/enclear, and that may or may not include me. I understand the concern.
--- On the surface, these persons seem incompatible. But are they? Or can we inspire each other anyway, because we can learn from various people in various ways? I’ll introduce myself by indicating < my connection to Buddhism > :
Tags: commonality, connection, input, intention
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