SIT-A-LONG with Taigu FUKANZAZENGI 6

[Daizan]

If the least tendency arises to go against or conform....

Between a rock and a hard place, without a millimetre, I shatter.

When my wife was undergoing radiation therapy for cancer, she was badly burned, and could only lay still in bed... The pain was complete and could not be escaped from. There was no escape. She said to me " I am like a bug pinned to a wall, I can either wiggle or just be the wall". She was only the pain, the bed, the room.

I'm not sure if your talk speaks to this exactly, but your quoted line ,for me, points directly at this no room to wiggle, this instant of frozenness, that shatters, leaving open, fluid, aloneness.

Gassho.kojip

[murasaki]

This is the base of it all for me. If I had to choose one single teaching to take away from Treeleaf, I think this would be it.
Gassho
Julia

[Myozan Kodo]

Merci Taigu.
Gassho
Myozan

[Hoyu]

I wish not to use the Dharma, but be used by the Dharma

This says it all!

Gassho,
Hoyu

[Rimon]

Watching the gap between my life and the Dharma... Hmmmm... It's pretty big.
Good to know that trying to fill it is not the answer.

So I'll keep an eye on it.

Merci Taigu

[Yugen]

C'est la vie sportive!

Gassho
Yugen

[Shokai]

Thank you Taigu, I enjoy this series and look forward to more (oops, "What's next!")

[kyo]

Great thank you

[Risho]

Gassho,

Risho

[Bids]

Thank you.
Gassho

Nadi

[Rich]

Thanks Taigu. Dogen rocks.

[Myoku]

Thank you Taigu,
Gassho
Myoku

[Kyonin]

Thank you, Taigu

[Shingen]

Wonderful, thanks again Taigu.

Gassho,
Michael

[Marek]

Thank you

[disastermouse]

Do people ever actually think that they are accomplished meditators in this practice? There's always this admonishment - so many Zen teachers talk about it, but it seems that the practice itself repels that kind of thinking. Is there a way to sit zazen where it doesn't just automatically repel this sort of thinking?

Humility in Zen is letting go, right? Not picking up self-chastisement. I'm thinking about Alan's thread..

Chet

[Taigu]

Hi Chet,


When the mind wanders, just come back here and now. When in here and now, just here and now.

Gassho

Taigu

[Shingen]

When the mind wanders, just come back here and now. When in here and now, just here and now.

Wonderful Taigu ... I remember a meditation retreat at the Tamagawa Campus in Nanaimo, BC and we were being taught about the practice of mindfulness. He said, "Simple ... when you breathe in, say to yourself, bring the mind home ... and when breathing out, say, letting go".

[Ray]

Thanks taigu,

May be more Aware that i am a fool through bringing awareness to the gap when off the cushion!

Many thanks again

Gassho

[galen]

Nice, Taigu, thank you.

Sitting sitting, forever slowly slowly closing the gap that never closes, until it does.

Standing up from sitting, forever slowly slowly closing the gap while among the ten thousand gappers. Not sitting, the standing gap only widens.


galen