Zen Anybody

[Catsquotl]

Originally Posted by Redchic12

Catsquotl
Thanks for that beautiful video. Really enjoyed it.

So did I, And whilst my mind went on to dream of going to the Zhongnang mountains I came upon this other gem. Which made me reconsider.

Zen - principles and practices.

[AnotherBob]

Originally Posted by Joe Mc

“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Actually, Han Shan, a Taoist poet, not Jack K.

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[AnotherBob]

I would offer that Angelo Dilullo's work represents a good example of how Zen is morphing to put down roots in the West, without the Asian cultural baggage:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPb...eh_mMywK70kFaQ

[Catsquotl]

Originally Posted by AnotherBob

I would offer that Angelo Dilullo's work represents a good example of how Zen is morphing to put down roots in the West, without the Asian cultural baggage:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPb...eh_mMywK70kFaQ

Thank you for posting,
I listened to his Buddha at the gaspump interview a few weeks ago, I must have somehow missed his roots were in Zen Buddhism.

[sky]

Originally Posted by AnotherBob

Actually, Han Shan, a Taoist poet, not Jack K.

I often wonder who He was ? He wrote some beautiful verses

" People ask the way to Cold Mountain
As if its thousand broken paths were a throughway!

Go, but on ice that not even summer melts;
Go, but blindly where mists blot the sun.

How is it, then, that I got here?
Because our natures are not alike--

If we had the same hearts and minds,
You'd now be sitting in my lap! "

[Joe Mc]

Originally Posted by AnotherBob

Actually, Han Shan, a Taoist poet, not Jack K.

Didn't know that. I've read Han Shan's translated poetry and some of Kerouac's writings. I never remembered the line though. It's taken from Han Shan's poem Cold Mountain apparently.
The quote appears in websites as attributable to Kerouac, in the novel, Dharma Bums. I see a snippet of the writing where Kerouac uses the quote but I can't see where he has attributed
the line back to Han Shan, perhaps earlier or later in the chapter he does ? Ah well that means it's Kerouac's fault !

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[Joe Mc]

Please forgive me for introducing the Thai Forest Teacher Ajahn Cha to this Zen thread ! Although not a Zen teacher in the strictest sense of the word, it might be hard to argue that he wasn't a teacher of Zen. Here is a small story.

“You see this goblet?” asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master. “For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

(from Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective)

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[Catsquotl]

Originally Posted by Joe Mc

I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

I love Ajahn Chah quotes.
The more I study buddhism, the more I feel drawn to his down to earth teachings..

[Joe Mc]

Originally Posted by Catsquotl

I love Ajahn Chah quotes.
The more I study buddhism, the more I feel drawn to his down to earth teachings..

Excellent, glad you are finding inspiration in his down to earth teachings.

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[Redchic12]

I also love Ajan Chah work.

My local Buddhist monk called Ajan Brahm spent 15 years learning from him in south east Asia and is always mentioning him lol.

I mentioned in a thread awhile ago one of his sayings I loved:

If you can’t improve on silence
Then don’t open you mouth.

Love it!