Now And Zen: Reflect on your original nature...

http://www.mydzi.blogspot.com/2008/06/dhyani-buddha-vairochana.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen

That page above whose motion gif I borrowed seems to be the authority on the Dhyani Wisdom - Dhyana being the sanskrit form of the word that we know as Zen.

The two links offer images and text.

There are a lot of ways to reach ones natural state. If one is limber enough this posture comes naturally. Some things I don't try at home.

My original state was New York but I'm not from Buffalo.

Thank you for the post Teo and for the book recommendation.

Love,
Vicky

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.

Zen wisdom

Thank you Teo for the post and the images.

I have no idea what my original nature is, it goes so far back that I can't remember it.
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Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Zen

Thank you Teo.

Like Sue, I need to go back to eternity to find out what my original nature is. The brain needs to take a long walk stretch


“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”....Zen quote

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Zen: Seeing into one's own nature.
Hui-neng


Alas! the world is full of enormous lights and mysteries, and man shuts them from himself with one small hand!....Zen Quote by Baal Shem Tov.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on....Zen

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
Ugo Betti

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.
Fen-Yang

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
D. T. Suzuki

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
Shunryu Suzuki

Self is the lord of self.
Zen

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Originally posted by dear yogionefromobie:

There are a lot of ways to reach ones natural state. If one is limber enough this posture comes naturally. Some things I don't try at home.

You allow me to share something I haven't had the excuse.. er.. I mean REASON to share... not really an original nature thing.. uhm.. yea! Here is my original nature:

click for larger Captain Yoga!!!

Thank you for sharing the wisdom.

Love,
yoko


Eventually you will experience the great awakening,
and then you will discover that life is a great dream.

Chuang Tzu