Zen fyrirlestur (Dharma Talk) og byrjendaleiðbeiningar í zen-hugleiðslu á laugardaginn

 

Zen fyrirlestur

Óskar Daian Ingólfsson

laugardag 28. febrúar kl. 11:00

 

 

Á undan fyrirlestri 28.feb kl. 10:20 er þeim sem aldrei hafa iðkað zen boðið upp á leiðbeiningu í zazen (sitjandi zen)

Grensásvegi 8, 4.hæð

Allir velkomnir

 

sjá: www.zen.is

Meditation is the answer

 

When life is stressful and distressing, the opportunity for relaxation and real joy is diminished. We are busy, running without purpose, ultimately we become tired, bored, and unhappy. Our hearts, lungs, and other internal organs are overburdened with the pressure of work and anxiety.  How can we enjoy a life of peace, relaxation, and harmony?

Meditation is the answer.

 

Paramahansa Prajnanananda

www.kriya.org

Dalai Lama talar um Hin fjögur göfugu sannindi (The Four Noble Truths)

 

 

 

Hér getið þið fengið miða á fyrirlestur Dala Lama á Íslandi: http://midi.is/atburdir/1/5451/

Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um helgina

 

Föstudaginn 20. febrúar  kl 20,30 Steinunn Helga Lárusdóttir: Að drottna eða þjóna. Hugleiðingar um hlutverk leiðtoga

 

Laugardaginn 21. febrúar kl 15,30 Halldór Haraldsson: Tónlist sem hugleiðing.

Næsta sunnudagskvöld kl. 20 er hugleiðing fyrir byrjendur. Öllum opið og frítt.

Síðan á hálfs mánaðar fresti.

www.gudspekifelagid.is

We are buddha

 

For twenty-five hundred years the Buddha has been teaching us that we are buddha, that we lack nothing of the highest enlightenment.  Still we do not completely understand, and even though we understand, it has not settled down in our hearts.  That is why we have to practice constantly.  We have to practice because we have a mind.

 

Mind is tranquility; it means peace and harmony.  What is wrong with mind?  Nothing is wrong with mind.  What is wrong is that for many years we have given our mind the chance, the environment, the circumstances for it to be a monkey mind.  Monkey mind means the mind is always going out, in many directions, picking up many things that are fun and exciting.  If we always leave the mind to take its own course, finally before we are conscious of it we are going in a different direction than we expected and we become completely confused.  That is why we have to take care of mind.  We have to take care of chances, circumstance, time, and occasions.

 

 

Dainin Katagiri (1928-1990)

 

Zen fyrirlestur og byrjendanámskeið

 

Zen fyrirlestur

Óskar Daian Ingólfsson

laugardag 28. febrúar kl. 11:00

 

10:20 er þeim sem aldrei hafa iðkað zen boðið upp á leiðbeiningu í zazen (sitjandi zen)

Grensásvegi 8, 4.hæð

Allir velkomnir

 

www.zen.is

Eckhart Tolle hugleiðslustund sunnudaginn 15. febrúar - Your Inner Purpose

 

 

Dagskrá sunnudaginn 15. febrúar: 9. Kafli: Your Inner Purpose.
kl. 20 á annarri hæð í húsi Guðspekifélagsins að Ingólfsstræti 22. 

 

“Nothing matters absolutely; the truth is: it only matters relatively.” - Eckhart Tolle
 
 
Hér er slóð inn á heimasíðu með lauslegri þýðingu á viðtali við Eckhart Tolle: http://notendur.centrum.is/~eliasj/tolle.htm

 

 

Hér er slóð inn á dagskrá hugleiðsluhópsins í vetur: http://notendur.centrum.is/~eliasj/eckharttolle.htm

 

 
http://www.gudspekifelagid.is/

Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed

 

Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed -- that is human.
When you are born, where do you come from?
When you die, where do you go?
Life is like a floating cloud which appears.
Death is like a floating cloud which disappears.
The floating cloud itself originally does not exist.
Life and death, coming and going, are also like that.
But there is one thing which always remains clear.
It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death.

 

Then what is the one pure and clear thing?

Zen is Understanding Yourself

One day a student from Chicago came to the Providence Zen Center and asked Seung Sahn Soen-Sa, "What is Zen?"

Soen-sa held his Zen stick above his head and said, "Do you understand?"

The student said, "I don't know."

Soen-sa said, "This don't know mind is you. Zen is understanding yourself."

"What do you understand about me? Teach me."

Soen-sa said, "In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

"In the same way, all things in the universe - the sun, the moon, the stars, mountains, rivers, people, and so forth - have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same substance. The universe is organized into pairs of opposites: light and darkness, man and woman, sound and silence, good and bad. But all these opposites are mutual, because they are made from the same substance. Their names and their forms are different, but their substance is the same. Names and forms are made by your thinking. If you are not thinking and have no attachment to name and form, then all substance is one. Your don't know mind cuts off all thinking. This is your substance. The substance of this Zen stick and your own substance are the same. You are this stick; this stick is you."

The student said, "Some philosophers say this substance is energy, or mind, or God, or matter. Which is the truth?"

Soen-sa said, "Four blind men went to the zoo and visited the elephant. One blind man touched its side and said, 'The elephant is like a wall.' The next blind man touched its trunk and said, 'The elephant is like a snake.' The next blind man touched its leg and said, 'The elephant is like a column.' The last blind man touched its tail and said, 'The elephant is like a broom.' Then the four blind men started to fight, each one believing that his opinion was the right one. Each only understood the part he had touched; none of them understood the whole.

"Substance has no name and no form. Energy, mind, God, and matter are all name and form. Substance is the Absolute. Having name and form is having opposites. So the whole world is like the blind men fighting among themselves. Not understanding yourself is not understanding the truth. That is why there is fighting among ourselves. If all the people in the world understood themselves, they would attain the Absolute. Then the world would be at peace. World peace is Zen."

The student said, "How can practicing Zen make world peace?"

Soen-sa said, "People desire money, fame, sex, food, and rest. All this desire is thinking. Thinking is suffering. Suffering means no world peace. Not thinking is not suffering. Not suffering means world peace. World peace is the Absolute. The Absolute is I."

The student said, "How can I understand the Absolute?"

Soen-sa said, "You must first understand yourself."

"How can I understand myself?"

Soen-sa held up the Zen stick and said, "Do you see this?"

He then quickly hit the table with the stick and said, "Do you hear this? This stick, this sound, your mind - are they the same or different?"

The student said, "The same."

Soen-sa said, "If you say they are the same, I will hit you thirty times. If you say they are different, I will still hit you thirty times. Why?"

The student was silent.

Soen-sa shouted, "KATZ!!!" Then he said, "Spring comes, the grass grows by itself."

 

 

Sjá: http://www.kwanumzen.com/

Dagskrá Guðspekifélagsins um helgina

 

Föstudaginn 6. febrúar kl. 20,30 flytur
Halldór Haraldsson  erindi eftir John Algeo:“Harry Potter og hetjan með þúsund andlitin

Laugardaginn 7. febrúar   kl 15,30   DVD-mynd um höfund bókanna Samræður við guð