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Zen Ideas

Like Clouds Drifting By
Zen Ideas

Like Clouds Drifting By

Like Clouds Mov­ing By — two twisty, turny lit­tle ideas. The first idea is this: we know things by their oppo­site, and all cou­plets are an essen­tial uni­ty. The sec­ond idea is this: thoughts are not real — they are, in a sense, like clouds drift­ing along on a blue sky day.
Soft Eyes and an Open Heart
Zen Ideas

Soft Eyes and an Open Heart

Soft Eyes and an Open Heart — open heart­ed­ness requires an emp­ty heart — a dif­fi­cult con­cept for West­ern­ers to grasp. Soft eyes pro­duce astound­ing clar­i­ty. Let’s see how this works as a dance of intimacy.
beliefs and motes
Zen Ideas

Beliefs and Motes

Beliefs and Motes — There is no objec­tive real­i­ty. Every­thing is fil­tered through our beliefs. Know­ing that can make a difference
on killing the buddha face othe buddha
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On Killing the Buddha

On killing the Bud­dha — This means ‘being with’ myself as I am, with­out judge­ment. I am how I am. And as I go there, I real­ize that, if I do not cling to the idea that I will be this way ‘for­ev­er,’ how I am shifts as time goes by. If I do not invest in my ‘tale of woe,’ I pass through it — until the next time.
ironic sign
Zen Ideas

Be Where You Are

Be Where You Are — The wise per­son does not know the des­ti­na­tion. The wise per­son does know where he or she is now.
compassionate wholeness
Zen Ideas

Finding Compassionate Wholeness

Com­pas­sion­ate whole­ness hap­pens infre­quent­ly in our world, because of the down­ward pull toward secu­ri­ty and safe­ty — things val­ued by
emptiness
Zen Ideas

Another Look at Emptiness

Anoth­er Look at Empti­ness — a West­ern look at empti­ness, and how dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of “know­ing” affect us 
emptiness
Zen Ideas

The Emptiness of Everything

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Zen 101
The Empti­ness of Every­thing — watch­ing the work­ings of our mind as we invent mean­ings — how doing this gets us into trou­ble, is the point of the Heart Sutra
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