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    Sit-a-Long with Jundo: FluZazen



    Feeling better, so can post this today. Below is my demonstration of how to "sit" Zazen with the flu or like illness. Not sure what I was mummbling but I think it was this:

    All is just what it is, sick is just sick ... yet yucky is yucky.

    Nothing to cure ... yet take your medicine, try to get better.

    Okay to moan ... even the Buddha got sick.


    When he had eaten Cunda's food, I heard,
    With fortitude the deadly pains he bore.
    From the sukara-maddava a sore
    And dreadful sickness came upon the Lord.
    But nature's pangs he endured. "Come, let us go
    To Kusinara," was his dauntless word.

    Mahaparinirvana Sutta

    Not sure how dauntless I was, need to ask my wife about that one (She was sick too, a couple of days ahead of me). She isn't married to the Buddha.

    Anyway, this is how to "sit" Zazen when sick ...


    PS- the picture, whatever it looks like, were some scientists and doctors trying to see what was hidden in an old Buddha statue.There was a mummy of an old Chan Master inside. LINK
    Last edited by Jundo; 12-15-2016 at 02:24 AM.
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    Mp
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    Oh Jundo ... feel better soon. So true though eh, even colds and flus are impermenant. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shingen View Post
    Oh Jundo ... feel better soon. So true though eh, even colds and flus are impermenant. =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Well, the disease is impermanent ... and so are we ... so something has to give in the end.

    Gassho, Jundo

    ReclineZazened today too.
    ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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    Mp
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    Well, the disease is impermanent ... and so are we ... so something has to give in the end.

    Gassho, Jundo

    ReclineZazened today too.
    Well, I am routing for yah ... =)

    Gassho
    Shingen

    s@today

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    Thank you, Jundo.

    At least, you gave the dead substance 'virus' a new life for some days and passed it further on for development, to come back later, next year :-).
    Get better soon, poor teacher.

    Gassho,
    Kotei sattoday.

    義道 冴庭 / Gidō Kotei.
    Being a novice priest doesn't mean my writing about the Dharma is more substantial than yours. Actually, it might well be the other way round.

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    Oh dear! That doesn't look fun. Feel better soon Jundo May you be healthy and at ease in all your ills.
    Gassho
    Jakuden
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    May you get well soon, Jundo.

    Gassho
    Washin
    sat today

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    Jundo,

    Please take care of yourself and get well soon.

    Gassho
    Mike
    Sat2day

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    Get well soon, Jundo.

    Gassho,
    Andoitz.

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    Kyotai
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    You weren't kidding. Feel better Jundo.

    Gassho, Kyotai
    ST

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    Hope you feel better soon Jundo !
    Gassho
    Marina
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    May you feel healthy . Reminds me, I probably need a flu shot. And thanks for reminding that we sit / be with everything.

    Sat today

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    May you feel healthy . Reminds me, I probably need a flu shot. And thanks for reminding that we sit / be with everything.

    Sat today

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    Yep. Reminded me too. At the clinic waiting for my flu shot right now. Lol.
    Gassho
    Jakuden
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    Get well soon. Thank you for the reminder that everything can be brought into practice, even the flu. It is what it is.

    Gassho,
    Onkai
    Sat Today

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakuden View Post
    Yep. Reminded me too. At the clinic waiting for my flu shot right now. Lol.
    Gassho
    Jakuden
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    We had the flu shot! I was reading recently that they have to guess a couple of years before, and their are many variations, and it is hit or miss. I guess they missed for us this year.

    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

    HOWEVER, always highly recommended I believe for children, the elderly and others with physical risk. Consult you doctor.

    Anyway ... 80& better here.

    Gassho, J

    SatToday a bit wobbly
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    We had the flu shot! I was reading recently that they have to guess a couple of years before, and their are many variations, and it is hit or miss. I guess they missed for us this year.

    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm

    HOWEVER, always highly recommended I believe for children, the elderly and others with physical risk. Consult you doctor.

    Anyway ... 80& better here.

    Gassho, J

    SatToday a bit wobbly
    I figured you must have had the shot, since you were traveling and all. We are traveling for the holiday too, airports and restaurants and hotels and all their assorted germiness. My kids hate how I am always brandishing the hand sanitizer.

    So glad you are feeling better!!

    Gassho
    Jakuden
    SatToday


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    Maybe India was a bit of a stressful whirlwind? ........on the body if not the mind? I hope you're feeling better soon, Jundo.

    Feeling crappy sucks... in a suckless way .....that nonetheless sucks....uh.


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    Daizan

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    Ansan
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    Feel better quickly, Jundo. I just came off a bout of Strep Throat. The after effects of medication was almost as bad. Sickness passes. Zazen stays.

    Gassho,
    Ansan

    Sitting in 1/2 hour

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daizan View Post
    Maybe India was a bit of a stressful whirlwind? ........
    No, my wife got the same thing two days ahead of me like clockwork. My joke is that I made it through India without a tummy ache ... and got socked with something from the wife.

    By the way, did I mention how I went into one restaurant in India, recommended by a friend, where a cow wandered in to sample the soup, siticking its head into and lapping up the pot. The owner chased off the cow ... apparently you can't kill cows in India, but you can hit them and yell ... then went ahead and served the soup out of the same pot? I had been served pre-cow, so went ahead with the meal.

    Gassho, J

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    Last edited by Jundo; 12-16-2016 at 05:27 AM.
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    Mp
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jundo View Post
    No, my wife got the same thing two days ahead of me like clockwork. My joke is that I made it through India without a tummy ache ... and got socked with something from the wife.

    By the way, did I mention how I went into one restaurant in India, recommended by a friend, where a cow wandered in to sample the soup, siticking its head into and lapping up the pot. The owner chased off the cow ... apparently you can't kill cows in India, but you can hit them and yell ... then went ahead and served the soup out of the same pot? I had been served pre-cow, so went ahead with the meal.

    Gassho, J

    SatToday
    OH you are a braver man then I am!!! LOL

    Gassho
    Shingen

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    Hi Jundo!

    Hope you are better today and that you had some rest.

    Gassho,

    Kyonin
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    I needed to see this.
    I have been fighting a bug lately and slept in today despite giving zazen my best effort the last couple of days.
    Thank you for this.
    Gassho,
    -K2

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    Kyotai
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    Quote Originally Posted by kliffkapus View Post
    I needed to see this.
    I have been fighting a bug lately and slept in today despite giving zazen my best effort the last couple of days.
    Thank you for this.
    Gassho,
    -K2
    I had the flu last Wednesday. Sitting is not easy when you can't get out of bed lol.

    Gassho, Kyotai
    ST

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    Feel better soon Jundo. I bet that cow approved of the soup too!

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