Attention means: attention
There is no subject, no object, no goals
--Chris
Still writing from a sunny patio
On Oct 26, 2012 2:24 PM, "Merle Lester" <merlewiit...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> mike: to which one?..merle
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> why mike ... we are all but buddhas and demons..which one are you?..merle
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> Merle,
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> Whilst it is true that Siddhartha Gautama out-grew his teachers to become
> The Buddha, and it's true that anyone can become a Buddha ('Buddha'
> simply means 'one who has awoken'). But having said that... a Siddhartha
> Gautama, Edgar ain't!
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> Mike
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> *From:* Merle Lester <merlewiit...@yahoo.com>
> *To:* "Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com" <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, 26 October 2012, 21:44
> *Subject:* [Zen] the teacher
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> joe..again i ask who was buddha's teacher?..merle
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> Merle,
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> It's one's practice of a koan that enables it to open and reveal what it
> treats of. That revelation comes from your nature, not the koan's. And it's
> you who opens, not the koan. The koan can do nothing without your practice.
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> The marrow of Zen is not conveyed by reading. The text is simply medicine.
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> With the restoration of your own health comes awakening, not before.
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> There is no understanding of Zen, in fact.
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> In Zen, we speak of one's "understanding", and what is meant is one's
> realization, one's awakening.
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> "Understanding" in Zen is not an intellectual appreciation that one holds,
> nor a poetic metaphor that one holds.
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> Expressions of Zen, or expressions of one's realization do not always come
> through words. There are other ways: painting, martial arts, cooking,
> archery, poetry, gardening, arranging flowers, making tea, drinking tea,
> washing, cleaning, brushing the teeth, driving a car, etc.
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> Koan practice is a medical treatment of oneself carried out by oneself in
> consultation with a Specialist, a Zen teacher. Otherwise,
> without the specialist at hand, it is Quackery.
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> --Joe
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> > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
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> > joe..my understanding of zen was it reached to the bone of the
> matter...merle
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