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#1 2007-01-02 01:02:47
Zen quip for the New Year
Shunryu Suzuki, on breathing, wrote:
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which
moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
When it is rainy, I am in the rain. When it is windy, I am in the wind. - Mitsuo Aida
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#2 2007-01-02 10:02:55
- Karmajampa
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Re: Zen quip for the New Year
What about the period between the inhalation and exhalation ? ....or, exhalation and inhalation ?
Kel. §
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#3 2007-01-02 10:45:21
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Re: Zen quip for the New Year
"Morning, noon and evening, you slave in the service of the self" - Buddha.
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#4 2007-01-02 12:40:36
Re: Zen quip for the New Year
Karmajampa wrote:
What about the period between the inhalation and exhalation ? ....or, exhalation and inhalation ?
The door stops, momentarily, and changes direction of its swing. At that instant, maybe we do not exist at all.
Not existing when not breathing. Seems reasonable.
-Darren.
When it is rainy, I am in the rain. When it is windy, I am in the wind. - Mitsuo Aida
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#5 2007-01-02 16:05:46
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Re: Zen quip for the New Year
"seems reasonable"......nothing is reasonable !
Why are we born only to find out the only certainty we have is that we will die !
I spend my days trying to re-invent a God I don't hate.
Between the breaths is a moment when we may see that all is illusion. A moment of non-clinging and non-grasping, but alas, we are so human.
Happy breathing, happy dying.
Back to face that wall with this desperate will.
Kel. §
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#7 2007-01-03 15:04:05
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Re: Zen quip for the New Year
When the Dragon swallows the Black Pearl.
Kel......§
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#9 2007-01-03 21:05:48
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Re: Zen quip for the New Year
as the dog wallows.....ascent.
kerry:)
The temple bell stops, but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers. -Basho
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