hey Joe, Thanks for the quick response! Taiwan is far more do-able! I'll check them out on the internet. Unfortunately, after living in Japan all those years, my brain short circuited, and Chinese is waaaaayyyy too difficult for me. I can speak i dian dian, but sound completely retarded I'm afraid. Well, I'm off to check out Sheng Yen. Thanks again, Scott-AKA Bummy "Charles" McNeedy
--- In [email protected], "Joe" wrote: > > Scott, > > If you could get over to Taiwan, you could practice with Sheng Yen's folks > there. No need to go to New York! Their place can be found on the web. If > your Chinese is good, you'll feel at home. But their English is good also. > > Let them show you the basics as they practice them. Ordinarily, we don't > ourselves know what the basics are until we encounter a good introduction to > them by people who have inherited them and rely on them in daily life. When > we practice them on intensive retreat, we come to see what is basic and what > is not, and why things are basic. Also, in Zen practice, the more basic the > better, I think. But let the competent teachers teach what is basic. > Posture, methods, and all the other practices besides Zazen, are basic. Each > practice supports another, and puts us more and more in a condition to enable > us to wake up suddenly. Anyway, you have my best wishes. > > --Joe > > --- In [email protected], Scott Williams wrote: > > > > Hey Joe,You've got a good point. Since I'm doing all this on my own, > > because I'm living in China, I am certain to be all screwed up. Its a real > > mess trying to mesh together personal experience, stuff I've read, and > > suprisingly as you said, science. Could be that I need to discard > > everything, and just get back to basics, and stop post-analyzing. I guess > > at the moment, thats all I can do.Thanks again,Bummy-chan > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
