I too went to the ChanCenter and also enjoyed many readings today. I don't know where I found the following link, http://amidatrust.ning.com/
but they were offering a link to a free kindle book from amazon called 'Not Everything is Impermanent' by Dharmavidya David Brazier. I was too late to get the free book but the web site has some free audios taken from the book and I downloaded them. They also have a podcast that has not been updated yet. If you find the free audios for the book Not Everything is Impermanent, right click on the link to each individual file and save as mp3 or wave form to your documents. You can listen to them at your leisure and then can determine if you want to read the book or not. M On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Bill! <billsm...@hhs1963.org> wrote: > Mike, > > I did read this newsletter and thought it was excellent! > > The only exception I would have with it is its claim that "When the method > of silent illumination was taken to Japan it was changed somewhat. The name > given to it, "just sitting", means just paying attention to sitting or just > keeping the physical posture of sitting, and this was the new emphasis." > > This was not the way shikantaza (just sitting) was explained to me from > two different Japanese Zen Buddhist roshis. In fact shikantaza was > explained exactly as the way "silent illumination" is defined in this > newsletter. The only difference I could find was the breaking the > experience into three stages as is done at the bottom of this article. The > zen training I received did not at all emphasize a lot of stages of things > or a specific number of this or that like Buddhism in general does. My > training was very sparse on explanation, especially explanation which goes > down into great detail. Teaching was by example accompanied with very > terse explanations, and emphasized doing (experience) over learning > (understanding). > > ...Bill! > > --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > > > Bill!,<br/><br/>If you have time, take a look at this 1995 newsletter > from Chan Center. <br/><br/> > http://chancenter.org/cmc/1995/02/01/shikantaza-and-silent-illumination/<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/><br/>Sent > from Yahoo! Mail for iPad > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are > reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
