Everything said about God is false

 

“Everything said about God is false.”

 

The disciples knew what was coming next.

 

The master continued, “Words are only a distortion of a reality that can never be comprehended by reason.”

 Frustrated, the disciples asked him what they should do.

“Just be in silence.”

 

A young disciple ventured, “Why do you keep on talking then?”

 The master smiled. “Ah, but you have not understood.  Don’t just listen to my words. Listen to the silence.”

 

Brown rice is just right

 

How do you like zazen? I think it may be better to ask, how do you like brown rice? Zazen is too big a topic. Brown rice is just right. Actually, there is not much difference.

 

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi - Not Always so. Practicing the true spirit of Zen.

The purpose of human life is to enquire:

 

Who am I?

Where have I come from?

What will happen to me at death?

Why do I suffer?

Why do others suffer?

Who is God?

How can I serve God?

Why is there variety of living beings?

How can I get out this cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death?

How can I live eternally?

 

 

 

Sjá: http://www.gitamrta.org/ 

 

 

 

Þó ég skrifi nær ekkert um sjálfan mig á þessari bloggsíðu þá verð ég að gera undantekningu núna og segja ykkur frá því að ég eignaðist minn annan son í gær kl. 18:42. Það var að sjálfsögðu alveg einstök upplifun, hreint ótrúlegt. Lífið er snilld. Om Shanti.

The Zen of Recovery

 

The practice of Zen is the alarm clock that wakes us up to our lives and enables us to stop sleepwalking through reality. It is the friendly map that says: "Right here is the place. You have always been here. Where else is there?" It is the calendar that says: "Right now is the time. Who could want another?" Zen practice identifies the liars and thieves in the temples of our hearts and casts them out so that we may live as we are meant to live: whole, fearless, and rejoined with that for which we so desperately long.

 

Mel Ash - The Zen of Recovery

They who know do not tell

 

They who tell do not know; they who know do not tell.

  Lao Tzu

 

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world

 

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there he is like butter on water, and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity. To fulfill one's earthly responsibilities is indeed the higher path, provided the yogi, maintaining a mental uninvolvement with egotistical desires, plays his part as a willing instrument of God.

 

 

Paramahansa Yogananda – Autobiography of a Yogi (1st edition, p. 222)

 

What is the best way of helping other people?

 

Zen mind is not Zen mind. That is, if you are attached to Zen mind, then you have a problem, and your way is very narrow.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

Only keep the question, "What is the best way of helping other people?"

 

Seung Sahn - Essential Zen

Encourage others

 

A student asked Soen Nakagawa during a meditation retreat, "I am very discouraged. What should I do?"

 

Soen replied, "Encourage others."

 

Essential Zen

Without Fear

 

During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master. Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger. "You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!" But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved. "And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

 

 

 

Eftir zazen þann 26. janúar síðastliðinn hófst fyrsti leshringur af þremur um rit Eihei Dogen (upphafsmanns Soto Zen skólans) BENDOVA "THE WHOLEHEARTED WAY"  .

Umsjón. Helga Jóakims.

 

Sjá betur á: www.zen.is

 

Dharma

 

Betra er hverjum manni að rækja skyldu sína, þótt honum verði hróðursvant, en inna af hendi skylduverk annara manna vel og sómasamlega. Gott er hverjum manni að falla frá, er hann gegnir sínum eigin skyldum. Skylduverk annara eru umkringd hættum.

   Hávamál Indíalands (Bhagavad Gita) 3. kviða, 35. vers