"Meditation For Starters" video með Swami Kriyananda

 

Hér getið þið séð myndband með Swami Kriyananda þar sem hann talar um hugleiðslu. Sjálfur hefur hann hugleitt í 50 ár:

 

http://www.ananda.org/meditation/technique.html#medforstarters

 

 

 

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What is Zen?

Zen is very simple... What are you?

 

In this whole world everyone searches for happiness outside, but nobody understands their true self inside.

 

Everybody says, "I" -- "I want this, I am like that..." But nobody understands this "I." Before you were born, where did your I come from? When you die, where will your I go? If you sincerely ask, "what am I?" sooner or later you will run into a wall where all thinking is cut off. We call this "don't know."

 

Zen is keeping this "don't know" mind always and everywhere.

 

When walking, standing, sitting,
     lying down, speaking, being
     silent, moving, being still.
At all times, in all places, without
     interruption -- what is this?
One mind is infinite kalpas.

 

Meditation in Zen means keeping don't-know mind when bowing, chanting and sitting Zen. This is formal Zen practice. And when doing something, just do it. When driving, just drive; when eating, just eat; when working, just work.

 

Finally, your don't-know mind will become clear. Then you can see the sky, only blue. You can see the tree, only green. Your mind is like a clear mirror. Red comes, the mirror is red; white comes the mirror is white. A hungry person comes, you can give him food; a thirsty person comes, you can give her something to drink. There is no desire for myself, only for all beings. That mind is already enlightenment, what we call Great Love, Great Compassion, the Great Bodhisattva Way. It's very simple, not difficult!

 

So Buddha said that all beings have Buddha-nature (enlightenment nature). But Zen Master Joju said that a dog has no Buddha-nature. Which one is right? Which one is wrong? If you find that, you find the true way.

 

 

Seung Sahn 

Becoming a Buddha

 

Becoming a Buddha is not difficult because "Buddha" means
someone who is enlightened, who is capable of loving and forgiving.

 

 

Thich Nhat Hanh

Byrjendanámskeið í zen-hugleiðslu 2. júni.

 

Byrjendanámskeið í zen-hugleiðslu 2. júni. Sjá betur hér:

http://www.zen.is/namskeid_zen_a_islandi.htm

 

Zen iðkun byggist á öndun og vakandi huga. Þjálfunin fer aðallega fram í hugleiðsluæfingum sem kallast zazen eða sitjandi Zen. Iðkunin felst í því að snerta hreinan hug í miðri blekkingunni. Öll þekkjum við þá tilfinningu þegar við festumst í hugsanakeðju sem hringsólar í hausnum á okkur og heltekur líkama og sál. Leið Zen-hugleiðslunnar er einföld en krefjandi, þú þjálfar vitundina þannig að hún ferðist aftur og aftur mjúklega frá hugsun að öndun. Þannig getur þú verið þar sem þú ert.

www.zen.is

 

 

Gassho

To seek reality requires immense energy

 

To seek reality requires immense energy; and if man is not doing that, he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth and, in the process of discovering what is true, to be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom society cannot destroy?

 

You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek truth, this energy becomes destructive; therefore society controls and shapes the individual, which smothers this energy... And perhaps you have noticed another interesting and very simple fact: that the moment you really want to do something, you have the energy to do it. ...That very energy becomes the means of controlling itself, so you don't need outside discipline. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the right kind of citizen, which is not according to the pattern of any particular society or government.

 

J. Krishnamurti - Energy Creates Its Own Discipline - The Book of Life