Not Dead Yet

The Emperor asked Master Gudo, "What happens to a man of enlightenment after death?"

"How should I know?" replied Gudo.

"Because you are a master," answered the Emperor.

"Yes sir," said Gudo, "but not a dead one."

 

 

Sjá: http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/notdead.html

Sit zazen!

 

As I was telling Suzuki Roshi what a disaster my life had become, he began to chuckle. I found myself laughing along with him. There was a pause. I asked him what I should do. 

“Sit zazen*,” he replied. “Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly, but it doesn´t tell time.”

David Chadwick – Zen is right here     

 

 

*Zazen –Sjá hér leiðbeiningar fyrir zazen (Zen-hugleiðsu): http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/meditation.php  

 

Sex is like brushing your teeth

 

One day a student asked, "Roshi, I have a lot of sexual desire. I´m thinking of becomming celibate. Should I try to limit myself in this way?"

"Sex is like brushing your teeth," Suzuki answered. "It´s a good thing to do, but not so good to do it all day long."

 

 

David Chadwick - Zen is right here 

Yoga: The science of religion

 

Essentially, what we are seeking is God, whether or not we use that name....What we crave at the deepest level of our being cannot be found in anything the world can give us.

One of the ancient scriptures of India says, in relation to this truth: "Know it now or after a thousand incarnations." In other words, do you want to go on seeking in the wrong place and continually be frustrated?...People are frantically searching, but they cannot find what they are looking for; and that leads to despair. And not just despair; tremendous resentment and anger accrue in the process – a lot of anger, a lot of violence. Again, it is because people are seeking in the wrong place and therefore not finding true fulfillment....

So...where do we find God?  God, or Spirit, or the Infinite Consciousness (it doesn't matter what word you want to use) is all-pervading, omnipresent. But as long as we are looking for That outside of ourselves, we are using the senses and the mortal mind, the faculties through which we cognize the outer world. Great saints of all religions have affirmed this truth: the senses and the human intellect cannot perceive God; these gross instruments are far too limited. We have to go inside. There, through the intuition of the soul, we find Him.

On this point, the esoteric teachings of all the great religions agree: what we seek is inside....Jesus Christ said, "The kingdom of God is within you."...The same truth is in the Old Testament: "Be still and know that I am God." But the Bible does not say how to do it. Lord Krishna personally taught the highest techniques of yoga to his disciples, yet those methods were not set forth in his discourse in the Bhagavad Gita....

How to go within? That is what Paramahansa Yogananda has given to us: the definite science of attaining direct, personal experience of God.

 Brother Anandamoy – Yoga: The science of religion Sjá: http://www.srf-yogananda.org/excerpts/xcerpts.html

 

Ný bók með tilvitununum í Suzuki-roshi

 

One day during a tea break a student standing next to Suzuki roshi asked, "So what do you think about all of us crazy Zen students?"

Roshi said. " I think you´re all enlightened until you open your mouth."

 

 

David Chadwick - Zen Is Right Hear

 

 

Hér getið þið nálgast þessa nýju bók: http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Right-Here-Anecdotes-Beginners/dp/1590304918/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197576791&sr=8-1

Uppspretta sannleikans

 

Andi þinn er hluti af Guði og öll þekking býr innra með þér. Ef þú ferð djúpt inn á við í hugleiðslu þinni munt þú finna miðstöð sannleika og óendanlegs krafts sem bíður þess að hann sé notaður. Þú munt snerta uppsprettu allrar gleði og heilbrigði.

White Eagle - Hinn kyrri hugur

Byrjendanámskeið í zen-hugleiðslu

 

Byrjendanámskeið í zen-hugleiðslu í upphafi nýs árs 14. og 21. janúar.

 

Skráning hjá [e-mail]

 

www.zen.is

One with everything

 

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars that you see. Even if you jump out of the airplane, you don´t go anywhere else. You are still one with everything. That is more true than I can say and more true than you can hear.

 

 

Shunryu Suzuki - Not always so (bls. 120)

Yoga is the master-science of the future II

Yoga is the only gateway to a more elevated humanity, to a well-provided, progressive, war-free, harmonious and happy world. It is the only vessel in which one can cross the stormy ocean of existence to the other shore, where eternal life and unbounded happiness await the passenger.

 

Yoga, in short, is the methodology and the science by which the embodied soul can become aware of its own identity and of the glorious world to which it belongs. Material science unearths the laws of matter; yoga reveals the secrets of the soul.

Gopi Krishna - About Consciousness Research and How We Can Help Save the World

Sjá: http://www.koausa.org/Kundalini/

 

Yoga is the master-science of the future

Yoga is the generic name employed in India to designate all forms of mental, physical, and spiritual, disciplines necessary to explore the incredibly wondrous world of consciousness. From this point of view, all efficacious methods of spiritual discipline, adopted in any religion of the world, can be classified as yoga.

 Used in this sense, yoga is the master-science of the future, the door of entry to intelligent levels of creation impervious to the five senses and unapproachable to the intellect. Why yoga is as important for the hard-boiled, practical man of the world, as it is for the seeker after God and self-awareness, is because it is only self-knowledge and discipline that can help modem scholars and scientists to know more about consciousness and the profound depths of the human psyche.

And because it is only yoga that provides effective methods for the opening of the sealed super-sensory compartment in the brain which, when opened, can lead to illumination or to the florescence of genius and psychic gifts in human beings.

 

 

Gopi Krishna - About Consciousness Research and How We Can Help Save the World

Sjá: http://www.koausa.org/Kundalini/