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    The 35th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

    Gate Thirty-five
    Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.

    The non-arising of ill-will is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we protect ourselves and protect others...

    By “Dharma Gate”, we mean a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.

    Koan:
    "Ordinary people are dragged around by their karmic conditioning. Looking at the world from their standpoint of their conditioned feelings and get on each other's nerves. That is why there isn't anything else left to do besides right now, in the midst of this karmic conditioning, freeing ourselves from this karma. When we remove for a moment the spectacles of our conditioned feelings, we recognize what Shakyamuni Buddha said upon his awakening; "The great earth and all its living beings attain the way in this very moment. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees are without exception buddha nature." That means that in Shakyamui's eyes not a single one of us is in illusion. We, all suffering beings, are the ones who insist so stubbornly on our illusions. Shakyamuni's compassion and the Buddha's teaching consist in awakening us to this fact."
    - To You, Zen Sayings of kodo Sawaki, pg 181

    Most note worthy replies :
    If I can find the Way
    To subdue Godzilla within,
    Then I protect against what malevolence brings
    to Myself.

    Fires of hatred
    Find no fuel
    In minds filled with love


    合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
    合掌,生開
    gassho, Shokai

    仁道 生開 / Jindo Shokai

    "Open to life in a benevolent way"

    https://sarushinzendo.wordpress.com/

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    Life itself is the only teacher.
    一 Joko Beck


    STLah
    安知 Anchi

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    hobo kore dojo / 歩歩是道場 / step, step, there is my place of practice

    Aprāpti (अप्राप्ति) non-attainment

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    Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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    Tairin
    Sat today and lah

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    Why hate another, when I could love them as myself?
    No other, no self. Not one, not two.
    Hating another only draws my ire back home.

    Gassho,
    Nengyoku
    Sat
    Thank you for being the warmth in my world.

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    Juki
    sat today and lah
    "First you have to give up." Tyler Durden

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