Joe, Thanks! You're post below was very thought provoking...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > Bill!, > > "Think about it" before you begin a practice of some kind, I think Suresh may > mean. > > Maharshi is saying that all he did was begin to sit with his eyes open, > rather than as he did previously, with eyes closed. So he changed to sitting > with eyes open, as we do in zazen. And, at some point it's not that he did > something intentionally, but something acted, and maybe that was that. He > mentions a "higher power", and that could as well have been our original > nature, Buddha Nature, or, at that time, just a necessity of the body, while > his mind was quiet and he obviously did not resist. > > See?, some things I can re-word, and other things I'm too lazy to. > > --Joe > > > "Bill!" <BillSmart@> wrote: > > > > Suresh, > > > > Yes, this is very 'thought provoking'; but is exactly the opposite of what > > you want to practice in zen which is 'thought quiescence'. > > > > ...Bill! > > > > --- In [email protected], SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@> wrote: > > > > > > From Ramana Maharishi - (very thought provoking) > > > > > > "I have never done any sadhana. I did not even know what > > > sadhana was. Only long afterwards I came to know what sadhana > > > was and how many different kinds of it there were. Only if there > > > was a goal to attain, I should have made sadhana to attain that goal. > > > There was nothing which I wanted to obtain. I am now sitting with > > > my eyes open. I was then sitting with my eyes closed. That was all > > > the difference. I was not doing any sadhana even then. As I sat with > > > my eyes closed, people said I was in samadhi. As I was not talking, > > > they said I was in mauna. The fact is, I did nothing. Some Higher > > > Power took hold of me and I was entirely in Its hand."16 > ------------------------------------ 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/
