SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: FINGER WAGGING at SOTO TEACHERS & STUDENTS

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:11:00 -0700

I would like to criticize some Soto Zen Teachers for how we may be teaching Shikantaza (I know that all the Soto Teachers fully understand what I say. My point is merely whether we are conveying the message clearly enough).

Yes, we teach the importance of sitting in a balanced way, be it in Lotus, Seiza, on a chair or the like. We may show students how to place the mind on the breath, the Hara, how to "return to the posture" or sit boundlessly or

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Beautiful-Ugly-Buddha Eye

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:13:00 -0800

Sitting with the beautiful AND the ugly in this world ... finding that which simultaneously transcends and holds, breathes in and breathes out, "beautiful vs. ugly" ... is our Practice.

We are free of aversion and attraction even as we have our ordinary human aversions and attractions, pulling the weeds we can and watering the flowers ... even as we embrace each as just what they are. One finds Wholeness, Light, Beauty that is unconcerned by small human judgments of beauty and ugliness.

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The BEST Zen is SO DISAPPOINTING!

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:57:00 -0800

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ZEN TALK YOU WILL EVER HEAR. It will save Zen Students endless tail chasing and dead-ends, disappointments and wasted days. It will allow every Sitting to be Magnificent ... both the Sittings which are magnificent and those which are not. One will never be let down by one's Zen's Practice again ... nor by one's life, family and friends, nor this whole world ... both when fulfilling your every dream and when falling far short.

In an old Koan

Treeleaf Zendo

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: FINGER WAGGING at SOTO TEACHERS & STUDENTS

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Beautiful-Ugly-Buddha Eye

SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The BEST Zen is SO DISAPPOINTING!