... and mindfulness of daily experiences. Zen practitioners believe that this provides ...to the Lankavatara Sutra, the Zen school was initially identified with...founder Huineng, this famously "illiterate" Zen master cites and explains the...training monasteries or sutra teaching centers. After Bodhidharma's arrival in...alongside the historical Buddha. Despite Zen's emphasis on transmission independent...

...has enlightened Kapleau on a few points, for instance the connection between Zen and ETI.  Before his death, he visited me in dreams to see...and I had one dokusan, even though not a member of the Center.  I received a further koan.  My initial experience was on "One...a living Buddhist Master, the way it's been done in Chan/Zen linneage since the Buddha held up a flower. Then you ...

... How about you? and an issue-skirter too. let's play dodgeball! :) It's not necessary for all your perspectives to be centered on your self. ha ha, funny you should say that, because we were talking about you, not me. guess you're intent on avoiding the subject. No, we were not....

... people. How about you? and an issue-skirter too. let's play dodgeball! :) It's not necessary for all your perspectives to be centered on your self. ha ha, funny you should say that, because we were talking about you, not me. guess you're intent on avoiding the subject. No, we were not. But, you were. ...

... be different things to different people. How about you? and an issue-skirter too. let's play dodgeball! :) It's not necessary for all your perspectives to be centered on your self. ha ha, funny you should say that, because we were talking about you, not me. guess you're intent on avoiding the subject. robert - - - - - - - -

..., what is left to be set free from what by what? you appear to be an abstractionist, and an enlightenment a priorist. I love to be different things to different people. How about you? and an issue-skirter too. let's play dodgeball! :) It's not necessary for all your perspectives to be centered on your self. -- ~Oxtail

... is the transmutation of the empirical or Freudian ego into the transcendental ego of Husserl and Descartes. Unlike the empirical ego, which is brain-based and skin-encapsulated and the center of its own universe, the transcendental ego is simply the witness of the transcendental God Consciousness, which is connoted by cogito in cogito ergo sum. That statement would be ludicrous if...

... is the transmutation of the empirical or Freudian ego into the transcendental ego of Husserl and Descartes. Unlike the empirical ego, which is brain-based and skin-encapsulated and the center of its own universe, the transcendental ego is simply the witness of the transcendental God Consciousness, which is connoted by cogito in cogito ergo sum. That statement would be ludicrous if it ...

...it is not a terribly deep koan. The sun sets. Do I, an aging zen master, set, just like the sun? No. As the sun sets, the moon...around three times and died of a heart attack. That is the way the Zen Masters of old died. Why was Kapleau so vulnerable to the forces of nature?... of spiritual ego and a failure to go beyond Hinayana practice, which is after all rather selfish and self-centered.

...has enlightened Kapleau on a few points, for instance the connection between Zen and ETI. Before his death, he visited me in dreams to see...and I had one dokusan, even though not a member of the Center. I received a further koan. My initial experience was on "One ...a living Buddhist Master, the way it's been done in Chan/Zen linneage since the Buddha held up a flower. Then you might ...