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Re: Zen or Mahayana Buddhism asserts that enlightenment can be attained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition rather than through faith and devotion and that is practiced mainly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
This nice little topic has now eliminated confusion,conflict and insanity from my brain. Thank you for the short but very informative reply Teo.
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My goodness Teo. What a long reply. Here is a little bit of your reply . we must eliminate from the mind the culturally and existentially Indoctrinated, illusionary concepts of good and bad, right and wrong, Ugly and beautiful, great and inferior, etc. we must eliminate from the mind all value, moral and ethical Judgements. in time our entire being will be at one with reality. the need will no longer exist to differentiate judgementally Between this and that. values, morals and ethics do not...
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Thank you Teo for this very interesting and very long topic. Obviously some situations are harder than others; there’s no doubt about it, some situations are harder than others. But nonetheless from a Buddhist point of view, in any situation, no matter how extreme, it is possible to let go, be present, and experience existence beyond suffering in that moment. Even though we may suffer deeply in that moment on a personal level.
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but we need to be able to be aware within our actions and to let go of the desire to impose what we believe is right on others. Nice little post. Thank you Teo. It is very informative.
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It’s something that reveals itself in practice. It’s always there, glimpsed in moments. And with time those moments can come more often. They can be a source of inspiration in your life. You’ll always have work to do from the point of view of Zen. There’s never a kind of moment that suddenly everything is OK forever. As long as you’re alive there will be problems, which are both sources of suffering and opportunities for awareness. But the moments of letting go that come in practice are a...
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Dearestestest friends, I'm so glad you liked this post and what wonderful replies! I realized while looking for something completely else that I had this writing on Zen, I'll paste it below. Love, peace and chicken grease, Teom Thirty minutes to enlightenment the demystification of zen a definitive guide to the realization of nirvana. a post cultural, post existential, zen encounter. the following zen encounter has been written to enlighten you to The cause of human suffering and conflict...
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Zen or Mahayana Buddhism asserts that enlightenment can be attained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition rather than through faith and devotion and that is practiced mainly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
The word ' Zen ' is the Japanese attempt at pronouncing the Chinese word 'Chan', which in turn is the Chinese attempt at pronouncing the Sanskrit word 'Dhyana', which translates as 'meditation'. And indeed, the word Zen conjures up an image of motionless Buddhist monks lost in deep meditation. www2.bakersfieldcollege.edu/resperic/what_is_the_ meaning _of_ zen .htm Chinese name Simplified Chinese 禅 Traditional Chinese 禪 WIKIPEDIA: Chan ( simplified Chinese : 禅 ; traditional Chinese : 禪 ;...
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Re: Zen or Mahayana Buddhism asserts that enlightenment can be attained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition rather than through faith and devotion and that is practiced mainly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
The word ' Zen ' is the Japanese attempt at pronouncing the Chinese word 'Chan', which in turn is the Chinese attempt at pronouncing the Sanskrit word 'Dhyana', which translates as 'meditation'. And indeed, the word Zen conjures up an image of motionless Buddhist monks lost in deep meditation.