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Hey Tracy,
Excellent and thoughtful post (as usual). I can certainly relate. You're not the only dunce, you know! :D
Gassho,
Keith
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Count me in on the dunce club.
Gassho
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Originally Posted by TracyF
I was sitting during the first zazen session with Jundo and the gang when I noticed that one of my bras was hanging off my Buddha statue's shoulder
Buddha's Bra ... One size fits all. {snicker snicker}
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Hello Tracy,
I'm a dunce too...I feel like a baby trying to walk for the first time. Fumbling around, falling backwards on your tush, but never giving up, just keep on trying...then once you take that first step...ahhh, you find it leads to another, and another and another.
Thank you for sharing your very honest and funny experience. It definitely helps to know that others are having the same experiences as I am. Buddha with a bra :lol: - you just made my day!
Gassho,
Kelly Rok
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I thought it was a Manzier.
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Or a Bro! :mrgreen:
Buddha Bro: it lifts, separates and transforms delusions. :wink:
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Or a Bro! :mrgreen:
Buddha Bro: it lifts, separates and transforms delusions. :wink:
:lol:
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Hi.
You're not the only dunce, we all have bad hair days...
The main thing not to forget is that they're there for a reason, what if everything in life were easy?
How would that feel?
Be grateful that you have something to sink your teeth in and remember this moment when you "break through".
May the force be with you
Tb
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I read sangha dunce and immediately thought ... is me. :D seriously :B
im cool with my daftness. ... i realized early on that my Zen doesnt need a scholarly pursuit right now*. Perhaps if i live long enough to retire i will look then. right now ill expend that energy in making myself sit down and chasing the kid(s) and just living it- rather than reading about how long dead masters lived theirs.
*i dont think i COULD :D im perdy dense
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Or a Bro!
Buddha Bro: it lifts, separates and transforms delusions.
ROFL!!
Gassho
Dunce
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Playtex Cross Your Heart Sutra.
LOL
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Hey Tracy,
Thanks for the post. :D
We can have the Slow Olympics soon and see who wins :roll: . I am slow and I am enjoying it: I just figured out (after decades!) that I am not really in a hurry, nope, not really. So I take it real slow these days. Even intellectualise... slowly :wink:
Hope to be able to join you and the rest of the "slow club" for the next zazenkai. :)
Yours slow,
Irina
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steve hagen, in one of his books, had a thing about how this isn't like all the other races we've run -- with this target, as you get closer to the center, each circle is actually less points(like getting to wear funny hats, and having a dharma name) -- only the absolute center counts, and who can hit that?(nobody :wink: ) -- so you're actually better off hitting the outermost ring -- more of the "beginner's mind" thing
come to think of it, nobody seems to win these zen things all the time!
gassho, bob
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Tracy
I have spent most of my life feeling stupid & this Soto Zen malarky is no different. However, the older I get (45) the more comfortable I get with my ignorance and am prepared to admit it.
I also found the zazenkai on Saturday of benefit. I have noticed the effects of the extended practice throughout the week.
Kind regards
Jools
ps - I will adjust the webcam next time so I am more recognisable & so it's not just a view of my nostrils :D
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Originally Posted by HezB
Playtex Cross Your Heart Sutra.
Regards,
H.
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We can have the Slow Olympics soon and see who wins
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so it's not just a view of my nostrils
:lol:
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Me?
A dunce?
Yup, uh-huh...
So?
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You?
A dunce?
Yup, nuh-uh...
So?
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That's a great story. I remember the first couple of sesshins I went to: I couldn't do anything right. I'd walk into the zendo with my shoes on, spill my oryoki meal on the floor, walk the wrong direction in kinhin...I just couldn't get with the protocol. It was a real humiliating experience. Then I heard someone else talking about feeling the same, and I realized that that's all part of the experience.
Robert Aitken wrote, "Carry your practice lightly." You can take practice seriously without being all glum about it. I have a feeling the Buddha would have smiled at his image with a bra draped over it.