tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22546653225073761672024-03-13T12:59:34.783-07:00Comox Valley Zen (Chan)We are no longer offering a Chan Meditation practice in the Comox Valley. Please refer to www.cosmoschan.org for further information on Chan (Zen) meditation.comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-83439234133753748532016-08-13T15:19:00.001-07:002016-08-13T15:19:15.569-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you wish your name removed from this, please let me know.comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-60460546208135855852016-02-23T20:06:00.000-08:002016-02-23T20:06:51.434-08:00What is pure awareness with Prajna Wisdom? and sunday morning meditation addition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In Chan meditation, the central function of practice is to apply Pure Awareness with Prajna Wisdom in every moment whether walking, standing, sitting, lying...But what is Pure Awareness? Awareness we can understand, but Pure??? In this case, it is best to use the description 'Non-abiding awareness'. We don't hang out in any structure of Dharma (teachings) or dharma (phenomena) form, whether it be thought, emotion, sensation.<br />
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And not only do we not hang out (attach) to any form, we use Prajna Wisdom so we do not discriminate. There's no craving and no aversion. Pain in the knee? Don't care. Someone yelling at us? Don't care. Win a thousand dollars? Don't care. Lose a thousand dollars? Don't care. <br />
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And where does all this come from? The Sixth Chan Patriarch, upon hearing a quotation from the Diamond Sutra, "Without abiding in anything, mind (illuminated) arises, lost all his self centeredness and entered the 3rd level of Chan Enlightenment: Complete Enlightenment. His foundation of his practice had been Non-abiding Awareness with Prajna Wisdom.<br />
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This sunday the 29th, there will be a sitting from 9 am to 12pm and coffee/tea afterward at 1460 Grieve Ave. in Courtenay. We will be sitting on the last Sunday of each month.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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<br />comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-26744836065970633362016-01-03T19:04:00.000-08:002016-01-03T19:04:04.854-08:00Upcoming Retreat and Local Advaita teacher Colin Mallard dies....<div class="p1">
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It’s a long time since “The Mountain Stream" was sent out. In February Colin was diagnosed with a virulent form of cancer caused by asbestos and given only a short time to live. He spent the next months writing the book <i>Going to Gaza, Ten days that changed the World,</i> which was a sequel to <i>Stillpoint, A novel of war peace, politics and Palestine.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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seemed time to repost it. This essay, “Sufism & Zen” is taken from a
collection of Nyogen Senzaki Sensei’s lectures and writings which was published
in Japan in 1936 as ON ZEN MEDITATION by the Rinzai priest Nanshin Okamoto. It
describes the Zen teacher’s encounter with the Sufi master Inayat Khan. As both
teachers inform my spirituality, I’m particularly taken that there was a direct
connection between them at one point in their lives. It should be noted that a
lot of water has flowed under the bridge since this essay was written. Both Zen
Buddhism in its many varieties as well as many, many schools of Sufism have
begun to take root in the West in the ensuing years. And, frankly, it is
unlikely that all the assumptions of this essay would be endorsed by most
advocates of either the Zen or the Sufi schools. In some ways this essay should
be seen as an artifact of a particular moment in time. But, I really feel it
also speaks to deeper truths that one may encounter as one walks a path of open
heart and open mind. And it is in that spirit I post it here…</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Nyogen Senzaki<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Inayat Khan, the Sufi teacher, came to America
some ten years ago, I met him in San Francisco and wrote an account of our
association for a Japanese daily paper of that city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan succeeded in introducing Sufism into the
Western World. Although he passed away several years ago, his books on Sufism
as well as on other subjects have been well received in both America and
Europe. The Sufi movement, therefore, still survives in the currents of thought
to such an extent that it is now an important element in the world’s religion
of the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other day I found a clipping of the article which
I wrote, published in The Japanese American on May 11, 1923. Having been told
by one of the disciples of Inayat Khan that certain Sufi friends in Europe are
compiling a biography of their deceased leader, and that contributions of material
are therefore desired, I am going to send the translation of this article to
those Sufi friends through Mrs. Beth Rowland, an admirer and student of Inayat
Khan. The following is the translation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mohammedan Zen – Sufism in America<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zen is not confined to Buddhism. In Christianity there
is an element of Zen. It also appears in Taoism and in Confucianism, however
colored by those respective schools of thought.<br />
Mohammedanism is supposed to be monotheistic, but its offspring which calls
itself “Sufism” encourages introspection among its students so as to realize
Allah, or God, within one’s inner self. If the thoughts of St. Bernard and of
Meister Eckhart can be called “Zen”, then the ideas of Jalal-uddin Rumi of
Persia, as well as those of Kabir, the Indian poet, may also be called
“Mohammedan Zen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been told that there is only one Sufi teacher
in America, a woman residing in San Francisco, though there are several
teachers of both sexes in Europe, mainly in England. The Sufi teachings, I
understand, also have some influence in India. The teacher in San Francisco is
Mrs. Martin, a Hebrew scholar, whom her students call “Murshida”, the Persian
feminine form for the word “Murshid”, which means teacher.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan is known to his followers as “Pir-o-Murshid”,
and they consider him to he the greatest teacher of this age. Since the latter
part of March he has been at the Sufi Temple, 153 Kearny Street, of this city
[San Francisco], engaged in lectures and the personal guidance of his students.</span><br />
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The Murshid was born in Baroda, India, having the well known musician, Maula
Bakhsh, often termed the Beethoven of India, and also the saint, Jumma Shah,
whom some Hindus even now worship, in his lineage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan is now 41 years old. He is a man of
commanding personality, being quite tall and stout, and wearing long hair and
beard. His bright eyes lend an air of dignity to his dark-colored face. He is
author of more than ten books, which range through such subjects as art,
philosophy, and poetry. He is also a poet and a musician in addition to his
other accomplishments, and he is now lecturing on Sufism under the auspices of
Paul Elder, the book-dealer, while the intellectual groups of San Francisco
crowd around him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mrs. Martin invited me to her home to meet her
teacher, and as I had benefited very much by the use of her library over a
period of several years, I did not hesitate in accepting her kind invitation.
On my way there, I met Doctor Hayes, my old friend, the psychologist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Where are you going?” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am going to meet Inayat Khan,” I replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Oh, that Sufi teacher?” said the doctor. “I attended
his lecture this morning at the Sufi Temple. It was such a tiresome ceremony –
the lighting of candles, much bowing, and all that. The lecture bristled with
too much about God and Love. There was nothing new in it, and I had to pay one
dollar for admission. I believe I will go along with you to meet him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If you do not feel like going,” I replied, “you need
not come with me. I am not asking you to do so.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well,” he said, “they may not charge anything for an
interview. I will come with you.”<br />
Thus it was that the two of us went to the home of Mrs. Martin, the only
Murshida in America. When we arrived we were ushered into the meditation room.
It was dimly lighted by a lamp covered with green silk cloth, while fragrant
Persian incense filled the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After Mrs. Martin introduced us, and after shaking
hands in the American custom with the Murshid, we were seated at a square
table, Mrs. Martin facing Dr. Hayes, and the teacher facing me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My friend the psychologist began talking to the
teacher by asking him how he liked America and its people, meanwhile selecting
a cigar from his pocket, which, however, he hesitated to light at such a
meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan smiled at me and asked, “Mr. Senzaki, will
you tell me what the significance of Zen is?<br />
I remained silent for a little while, and then smiled at him. He smiled back at
me. Our dialogue was over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The psychologist, not having recognized what had
happened, said, “You see, Mr. Khan, Zen is Japanized from Sanskrit. Its
original meaning was Dhyana, which means meditation, and-”<br />
At that point, Inayat Khan waved his right hand gracefully, and stopped the
psychologist’s conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mrs. Martin then interposed, “I will get a book which
describes Zen very well. It is an English translation from Japanese of The
Twelve Sects of Buddhism. I will get it for you.”<br />
Before she could rise from her seat, Inayat Khan again waved-this time with his
left hand-gracefully stopping the Murshida, then he glanced at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His eyes were full of water-not the tears of the
world, but water from The Great Ocean-calm and transparent. I recited an old
Zen poem-not with my mouth-not in thought, but with a blink, like a flash. It
reads:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No living soul comes near that water–<br />
A vast sheet of water as blue as indigo.<br />
The abyss has a depth of ten-thousand feet.<br />
When all is quiet and calm at midnight,<br />
Only the moonlight penetrates through the waves,<br />
Reaching the bottom easily and freely</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Murshid,” said I, “I see a Zen in you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mr. Senzaki, I see a Sufism in you,” he replied. Both
of us then smiled at each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mrs. Martin again interposed, “Mr. Senzaki, you should
practice your English. Why don’t you talk more about Zen?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At this both the Murshid and I laughed loudly, in
which the Murshida and the psychologist both joined, without knowing why. The
happy interview was over. I should have gone home at this time, but the
psychologist seemed to wish to talk further with the Murshid and interpose his
whys and becauses, while the Murshida, our Hebrew scholar, must show us her
collection of books and documents. So we remained there the whole evening while
we discussed Life, Death, Humanity, and the Universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I noticed that the Murshid uses the Nyaya system of logic
in making affirmations, and this made me feel very much at home with him, as we
Buddhists use the same system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Murshid told us his ideal of a universal
brotherhood which he believes will be established, and which he thinks will
transcend all racial considerations, as well as harmonize all religions to the
extent that they will work together in harmony for the uplifting of humanity,
and for the advancement of the spiritual world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am sure that Sufism can commune harmoniously with
both Bahai and Vedanta, but the question remains as to how it can associate
harmoniously with Christianity and Buddhism, both of which have their own
historical backgrounds. The Unitarians, the Christian Scientists, and the New
Thought people may understand Sufism easily, but all strictly sectarian people
will remain strangers to Sufism for many years to come. And as to the
Buddhists, those in Japan alone cannot work together harmoniously, even within
the same sects, so how Japan can ever see the dawn of unification, I do not
know. It is true enough that Japan has the true teachings of the Buddha hidden
away in the scriptures, but the old church systems there will prevent the
opening up of those treasures, even for the benefit of the remainder of the
world. Germany, though, has a new form of Buddhism which is related to that of
Ceylon and Burma. There I can see a few hopeful lights.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan now has adherents in London, Paris and
Geneva. May his brotherhood become stronger, year after year-let us sincerely
hope for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One day, Inayat Khan expressed the wish to attend a
Japanese, concert. I could not find any that were billed for that week, so I
went to Madam Nakamura, who teaches the koto in her home, and asked her to
invite him to hear her play. She consented gladly, and I went to the Sufi
Temple to tell Inayat Khan about this arrangement. It was about two o’clock in
the afternoon, and the Murshid asked me to meditate with him in a secluded room
where his pupils received personal guidance. We sat down to meditate together,
but before even one stick of incense was consumed, both of us must have entered
into Samadhi, for Mrs. Martin suddenly called us, stating that it was already
dark, time for us to go home for our respective dinners. We looked at each
other with surprise, but nodded a knowing assent to each other. The incense had
been completely consumed so long that no fragrance remained in the room. Both
Sufism and Zen had become, after all, only yesterday’s dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was the evening of May 4, 1923, that we, Inayat
Khan, accompanied by Mrs. Martin and me, went to Madam Nakamura’s studio. The
simplicity of Inayat Khan’s manners and conduct on the way reminded me of the
time when a certain Japanese high priest came to America, accompanied by a
flock of attending priests, with a great show of pomp and ceremonials–he could
not even move a hand without the assistance of his two chief attendants (the
chief and his vice-chief). This high priest was the abbot of a certain Japanese
sect, but with all his pomp and glory, his influence in America never reached
an inch beyond the Japanese immigrants, and his appearances here went entirely
unnoticed by Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the other hand, Inayat Khan’s influence was widely
spread among intellectual groups, both in Europe and America. He could have put
on a “big show” of himself alone, if he had wished to do so, but he was not
that kind of teacher. Wearing a Turkish hat and a long black mantle and
carrying a cane, the Murshid modestly rode in the street-cars, instead of in a
flock of honking automobiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The concert at Madam Nakamura’s was a success. The
first number on her program was Chidori (Plovers), played on the koto by
herself, accompanied by another koto and a shakuhachi, played by one of her
pupils and a Japanese youth respectively. The next and last number was The
Three Intimates (the pine, the bamboo and the plum tree), which Mrs. Nakamura
led on the koto, again accompanied by another koto and a shakuhachi. Although
the shakuhachi was played by the same youth as before, the second koto was
played by another of Mrs. Nakamura’s pupils.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That evening all the players wore American dress, as
it was an informal recital, but they sat on the floor in the Japanese custom
for such performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After definite expression, through keen attention and breathless
silence, of his appreciation of the performance, Inayat Khan warmly praised
Madam Nakamura, saying that she was music itself, not only with her koto but
also even in drinking tea or in walking around the room. Madam Nakamura should
appreciate this commendation very much, as the Murshid is a poet and a musician
who is not given to flattery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having been served with tea and cakes, and having been
presented with pictures of other performances given by Madam Nakamura, Inayat
Khan left the studio, saying that he would tell European musicians about the
deep impression this music had made upon him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the corner of the street where I was about to bid
the Murshid goodbye, I remarked, “All sounds return to one, and where does that
one go?”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inayat Khan stopped walking and, shaking hands with
me, responded, “Goodnight, Mr. Senzaki.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 18pt;">Now, Bodhisattvas, I have translated my old clipping.
What do you think of Inayat Khan? If you wish to meet him today, just open the
door and face the lovely shrubbery in front of this Meditation Hall....entire text and pics taken from james ford. More info in "Eloquent Silemce by Nyogen Senzaki.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-14422265784173062742015-09-23T20:35:00.001-07:002015-09-23T20:35:03.799-07:00Fashion Master Karl Lagerfeld on his Zen practice<br />
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<span class="s1">As well as Chan, I have also studied Sufism for 15 years prior to my involvement with Chan, so I am quite familiar with Islamic practice, if indeed the three invitees would even practice. Religion is not ‘hot topic’ issue in my life. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Do you have any community members who would be interested in co-sponsoring 3 Syrian refugees, and willing to commit the time to organize this process. Can you forward this email to possible helpers?</span></div>
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<br />comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-61931145581789380022015-09-03T15:19:00.000-07:002015-09-03T15:19:22.445-07:00Master Chi Chern: Self Nature is Immaculate and official start for Comox Valley meditation is Sept. 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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Very Important News:<br />
The Bethlehem Retreat Centre in Nanaimo has changed ownership and the centre may not be able to guarantee our retreat date on the 18th of July. We have been very fortunate to find another centre, and at <b>a third of the cost.</b><br />
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This retreat is a 7 day retreat. However, if that time period is unattainable, register instead for a 3 day retreat. It is suitable for both seasoned and beginners.<br />
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Place :<br /><span class="s1">Sunshine Zen Centre 日光禪寺</span><span class="s1">11148 Sunshine Coast Highway / HYW 101</span><span class="s1">Halfmoon Bay, B.C.</span><span class="s1">V0N 1Y2, Canada</span><span class="s2"><br /></span><span class="s1">* Time : July 18 - 25</span><span class="s1">* Fee : C$ 250 (as donation for food & board)</span><span class="s1">* Optional : 3-day (C$ 100)</span><span class="s1">* Register : (1) Adrian : <<a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca"><span class="s4">adrian2@shaw.ca</span></a>></span><span class="s1"> (2) Lisa Su : <<a href="mailto:exedust@gmail.com"><span class="s4">exedust@gmail.com</span></a>></span><span class="s1"> Please Register ASAP </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">For me, meditation and contemplation are similar, at least in the
first stage.. My practice is a Zen-style methodology (breathing in and out and
counting from 1 to 10), but any other way is fine if it is helpful to
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The conference or interviews may help you sort out problems in
your practice or deep pains like recurring anguish.from the stories that the
"monkey mind" spins in your head. People meditate for a variety
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Whereas Zen practice points to emptiness and eventually to
Enlightenment, Contemplation seeks to find the deeper Self, inner
clarity, more authenticity, an ability to embrace a new way of
"knowing" and a meaningful Truth that will lead to willing sacrifice
and service for others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-65973623150182335582015-04-15T21:26:00.000-07:002015-04-15T21:26:01.619-07:00Chan meditation starts again this 16th of April<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Time to start anew this spring...and from a Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled The Mirror of Clear Meaning we gain some insight into the nature of Mind...<br />
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What is called 'mind' cannot be identified as this or that. It is not an entity and it has no defining characteristics. If you search for it, it cannot be found for it has baeen empty from the very beginning, without substantial essence. Empty is is beyond expression, untouched by birth, death, coming and going. It is not created by any cause nor destroyed by any condition. It remains untouched in emptiness, free of increase and decrease, development and decline, or any kind of change.....pg 74-75 translation/commentary by James Low.</blockquote>
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We are looking for financial assistance fpr our trip to Rwanda this summer. You can receive a Canadian Charitable Receipt for your donation. Google http://www.infocusmagazine.ca/2015/peaceful-resolution/ for more information.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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"But the correct practice of meditation means attaining one pointed mind without wanting anything. This is the goal of any mantra practice, not only Namu myoho renge-kyo. Any kind of mantra is the same. Even repeating "Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola," if done with complete determination, will have the same result. The most important point is, How do you take away your thinking? How do you keep your mind? How do you keep your mind empty? If you keep empty mind, that is the Absolute. We sometimes call that primary point. When you keep primary point for a long time, you can take away your primary cause. All your happiness and suffering come from primary cause. Then as you take away primary cause, your condition changes and you get a different result. You will change your suffering so that compassion and happiness can appear. This is the teaching of dependent origination.<br />
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So how do you take away primary cause? Only keep One Mind. When you are doing something, just do it. Just do it. In just-do-it mind, there is no subject and no object. Inside and outside become one. As a result, you can connect with universal energy. The name we sometimes use for that is primary point. When you keep primary point for a long time, then slowly, slowly, slowly primary cause disappears. Thinking makes your primary cause. So, taking away your opposites-mind takes away opposites energy, and primary cause disappears, like water when left out for a long time in the sun. It evaporates by itself. When you practice hard it is very easy to do this! But your thinking makes karma, and karma blocks the sun, so this primary cause water cannot evaporate as quickly."....pg. 148 in Seung Sahn's The Compass of Zen<br />
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Actually what we call impermanence is a process of time, a manifestation of time, a process of time. All the phenomena of time can be called impermanent. Second by second they go by: that is impermanence. The experience of impermanence can be felt in many material ways as well as psychological ways. The material experience, for example, can be seen...read more at<span id="goog_1825081819"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. <span style="color: black;">MAIN WEBSITE: Cosmos Chan Zen Community at http://www.cosmoschan.org/</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Master Cheng Yen in Facebook;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. <span class="apple-style-span">the Western Chan Fellowship at <a href="http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-66456995255546854332014-12-30T22:13:00.000-08:002014-12-30T22:13:20.901-08:00Just plain sitting...and upcoming January 4 retreat day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sitting enables and forces us to discover all the ways "I'm" doing the universe, or "I'm" believing thoughts about the universe. We see all the ways that thinking and feeling are interfering, all the ways they are getting in the way of this blank slate that we always are right now, this original face that is functioning., responding, and manifesting morning to night. Because I believe thoughts, feelings, and emotions, this original face seems not at all this life. Holding on to body-mind habits, we miss this that we are from the beginning ---just this....from Elihu Genmyo Smith in NONSELF in everything is the way, pg. 162<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For this retreat, if you are not a Chan
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Bring
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Contact Adrian Symonds: 250-650-9055 or adrian2@shaw.ca</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">January 4, 2015 </span>8:30 a.m to 12; 1:15 to 5 p.m. – Salish
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">George
Brose and Adrian Symonds are seeking your financial support for this project.
You will receive a Canadian Charitable Receipt for your taxation year. Make your
cheque payable to Comox Valley Community Justice…Attention Rwanda Mediation
Project, Suite E-450 Eighth St., Courtenay, B.C. V9N 1N5. Please ensure you
clearly write your name and address so a taxation receipt may be issued to
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Project Goal</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">: To support the ongoing process of
training community mediators in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, and Tanzania<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Participants:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mediators Adrian Symonds and George Brose from
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Cooperating Agency in Africa:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">African Great Lakes Initiative
(AGLI)</span>, a Quaker initiative based in East Africa, AGLI <</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://aglifpt.org/"><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">http://aglifpt.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">> was founded shortly after the
1994 genocide in Rwanda to provide conflict resolution and reconciliation
between people from both sides of that genocide and in neighboring countries. AGLI
provides three principal programs of conflict resolution: Healing and Rebuilding
our Communities (HROC), Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and Mediation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Training aspect</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">: A training session will include
approximately 20-25 trainees who will return to their respective communities to
provide mediation service in their villages and urban neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In most of these communities the residents
have little or no access to the courts to resolve conflict which without
resolution often results in escalated violence between the disputing parties. It
is proposed that the two mediators Brose and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Symonds will conduct at least 4 trainings in the time they will be in
country: one hundred new mediators!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Previous Efforts</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">: The first mediation training began
with AGLI in 2007. Five North American mediators have directly trained over 300
mediators who have in turn trained another 2000 mediators. The 2014 training
project will be Brose's fifth time participating on the mediation project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will be Symonds’ first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as Rwanda, the two will return to
Pemba Island, Tanzania to reinforce the training that George did there three
years ago with Sharia judges, Imams, Social Workers, and Teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Why are More Mediators Needed?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">The continuous conflict and war
going on in the Eastern Congo and occasionally still in Burundi has cost the
lives of over 6 million people. As well, the refugee camps are a seething mass
of human conflict. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no police
protection to speak of, crimes such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>homicides, rape, burglary, and domestic
violence have no resolution. In the absence of a well functioning court system,
these countries have a pressing need for more trained mediators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-31390913201645829742014-12-02T19:21:00.001-08:002014-12-03T08:08:31.175-08:00More (commentary) on Suchness, this time by the Dalai Lama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From Nagarjuna:<br />
Not knowable from another, tranquil<br />
not fabricated by mental elaboration,<br />
devoid of conceptualization, and not differentiated--<br />
that is the character of suchness.</blockquote>
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This stanza presents what are known as the five main characteristics of ultimate truth. Basically, the stanza is stating that suchness lies beyond the purview of language and thought. Unlike everyday objects--where we can distinguish, say, between a thing and its properties--the emptiness that is mere negation of intrinsic existence is free of any such differentiations. It exists in the manner of a single taste. This does not mean that the suchness of all phenomena exists as one. Although each and every individual phenomenon has suchness, that just means all phenomena share the nature of being empty of intrinsic existence. That is the meaning of this stanza.<br />
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Whatever comes into being in dependence on another<br />
is not identical with that thing.<br />
Since it is not different from that thing either,<br />
it is neither nonexistent nor permanent. ...from The Middle Way...Faith Grounded in Reason by The Dalai Lama, pp. 86-87</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. <span style="color: black;">MAIN WEBSITE: Cosmos Chan Zen Community at http://www.cosmoschan.org/</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Master Cheng Yen in Facebook;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. <span class="apple-style-span">the Western Chan Fellowship at <a href="http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-83828510169506484682014-11-24T22:39:00.000-08:002014-11-24T22:39:04.750-08:00The self-nature of true suchness manifests thought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Good fellow practitioners, regarding "no" of no thought, what should we let go of? And regarding "thought" of "no thought", what should we be aware of? We should let go of the attachment to the duality and the mind exhaustion of sense objects, while we should be aware of the self-nature of true suchness. True suchness is the quintessence of thought, and thought is the function of true suchness. The self-nature of true suchness manifests thought, and it is not the six sense faculties that manifest thought. The true suchness has a nature of emptiness, therefore, it is able to manifest thought in accord with conditions. If true suchness has no empty nature, then the six sense faculties and six sense objects lose their functions simultaneously.<br />
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Good fellow practitioners, the self-nature of true suchness manifests thoughts. Though the six sense faculties have the functions of seeing, hearing, and awareness, yet they are not defiled by myriad objects, and the self-nature of true suchness is always liberated. Therefore, the Pure Name Sutra says, "One is adept at differentiating the forms of all dharma/Dharma, while simultaneously rest immovably in the Ultimate Principle."....from a translation/commentary by Master Beishi Ghohan of the 6th Patriarch's Platform Sutra.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. <span style="color: black;">MAIN WEBSITE: Cosmos Chan Zen Community at http://www.cosmoschan.org/</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. <span class="apple-style-span">the Western Chan Fellowship at <a href="http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"Good fellow practitioners, people in confusion verbally recite Mahaprajnaparamita, and while they are reciting it the deluded and evil thoughts arise. If they devote to <i>mind's effortless effort*</i> thought after thought, they realize its Dharma-nature of true suchness. To realize this Dharma-nature is the Mind Dharma of Prajna, while to devote to mind training in accordance with Dharma-nature is the Act of Prajna. If you do not train your mind in this way, you are ordinary people. If you do your mind training in this way even for one thought, you yourselves are equal to the Buddha.<br />
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Good fellow practitioners, ordinary being is Buddha, and vexation is bodhi (enlightenment). A confused preceding thought makes one an ordinary being, while an enlightened succeeding thought makes one a Buddha. A preceding thought that attaches to sense objects is vexation, while a succeeding thought that frees one from attachment to sense objects is bodhi.<br />
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Good fellow practitioners, Mahaprajnaparamita is the most honorable, the supreme, and the foremost. It has no abiding, no going, and no coming. The Buddha of past, present, and future manifest from it. You should use great prajna wisdom to break through; the vexation and mind exhaustion related to the five <i>skandas*</i>. If you do mind training in this way, you will surely attain the Buddhahood, and turn the three poisons (greed, hatred and ignorance) into discipline, samadhi and wisdom"......from the 2nd chapter of the translation/commentary by Master Guohan of The Platform Sutra of Sixth Patriarch Huineng.<br />
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<i>*Pure Awareness of Prajna Wisdom: awareness of everything outside, everything inside (thoughts and emotions) and body sensations, without injecting your self centeredness into that awareness by discriminating and creating attachments.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. <span style="color: black;">MAIN WEBSITE: Cosmos Chan Zen Community at http://www.cosmoschan.org/</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Master Cheng Yen in Facebook;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">3. Listen to dharma talks with Gilbert Gutierrez <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 13.3333330154419px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://dharmatalks.riversidechan.org/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. <span class="apple-style-span">the Western Chan Fellowship at <a href="http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;">6. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-91260548345867074262014-10-08T08:25:00.000-07:002014-10-08T08:25:38.655-07:00Meditation in Action: Warfare or Healthcare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An Innovative
Canadian Foreign Policy: Hornets or DARTS?<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<o:p> </o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Hornet Strategy: we
can protect the lives of thousands of Canadians by bombing the infrastructures
and the soldiers of the ISIS into submission. As in any bombing campaign,
violence will beget more violence, and as for the innocents, collateral damage will
generate a web of new resentments that will be rekindled for generations. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The DART Strategy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we can protect the lives of thousands of
Canadians by sending in 40 or 50 Canadian military Disaster Assistance Response
Teams to West Africa. At the rate of infection, this disease could easily
spread around the world. What kind of reputation would we garner if Canada
stopped it cold? And continued to respond to natural tragedies with DART teams
throughout the world? Let’s park the Hornets, and change our notion of boots on
the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
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again, anywhere, with a Canadian badge glued to my packsack. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt;">7. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span></div>
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comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-23759191726654165312014-09-29T20:09:00.000-07:002014-09-29T20:10:54.121-07:00In your practice, 'Lightness and Ease' can be easily attached to....don't!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US">"When the mind is unified with the body,
you cannot be aware of the sensations of the whole body sitting because the
sensations disappear. Why? The sensations become one with mind, so you cannot
become aware of them. But that does not mean you have no body anymore. Don’t be
afraid of that. When you close your eyes, you may get fear, and you may feel
your body disappear. If you open your eyes, you still see your body. If you
reach this state, you can experience the ‘Lightness and Ease’ of your body and
mind, and this kind of experience you may never have tasted before in your
daily life. Some people may feel, “Oh how wonderful this is. Oh how good. I
enjoy it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they just abide in this
state, they don’t want to get out; they just want to enjoy it. They don’t want
to do anything. They think if they can just stay in this state for the rest of
their life, that would be so wonderful. So they don’t want to leave. Of course,
if they want to stay in that state, they stop their forward practice. We could
say that they attach to the form of the mind (Lightness and Ease) in that
moment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, later on after some period
of time, that state of Lightness and Ease will disappear. It depends on how far
the state of your mind has faded away. Then, the mind will return to the Concentrated
mind state or even the Scattered mind state. So, do not attach to any kind of
Form of mind, of the good experience."...from talks by Master Beishi Guohan 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For this retreat, if you are not a Chan
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contemplation practice. If you do not presently have a practice, or are
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before the retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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your own cushion; chairs are available. Limited seating, please RSVP.<br />
Contact Adrian Symonds: 250-650-9055 or adrian2@shaw.ca</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Oct 5, Nov 2, Dec 2: 8:30 a.m to 5 p.m. – Salish House, Lewis Park
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Cost: by donation <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>===========================================</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />1. <span style="color: black;">MAIN WEBSITE: Cosmos Chan Zen Community at http://www.cosmoschan.org/</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. <span class="apple-style-span">the Western Chan Fellowship at <a href="http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt;">7. Questions? Adrian at 250 650 9055; </span><a href="mailto:adrian2@shaw.ca" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">adrian2@shaw.ca</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 10pt;"> and this blog http://comoxvalleyzenchan.blogspot.ca/</span><br />
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<br />comox valley inayat sufi meditation work grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01076000763745297020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2254665322507376167.post-14798145306076943982014-09-22T17:06:00.002-07:002014-09-22T17:06:35.639-07:00To have seen into the self-nature<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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What is the "Pure Dharma Body of Buddha"? The self-nature of worldly beings is intrinsically pure, and all dharma/Dharma manifest from the self-nature. When you think about evil things, it reveals evil things. When you think about all good things, it reveals good deeds. Thus all things of self-nature are like the sky, which is always clear, and also like the sun and the moon, which are always bright. While they are covered by floating clouds, there is brightness above and darkness below. If suddenly a wind blows away the clouds, then the brightness reappear in both above and below, and myriad things are fully manifested. The mind of worldly beings is confused and always floating, just like the clouds in the sky. Good fellow-practitioners, wisdom is like the sun, insight is like the moon, and both of them are always bright. But if you attach to the external sense objects, you have your self-nature covered by the floating clouds of deluded thoughts, so that your wisdom and insight have no brightness and clarity. On the other hand, if you meet a greatly enlightened being and hear authentic Dharma of Teachings, then you let go of the confused attachment and the deluded thinking so that both the interior and exterior are spontaneously bright and clear, and myriad things manifest from the self-nature. This is what happens to those who have seen into the self-nature. This is what is called the "Pure Dharma Body of Buddha". ....from The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Translated by Beishi Guohan (Old Teacher Tsao)<br />
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Does being present without Pure Awareness of Prajna Wisdom still work to move a player toward recognizing self nature?<br />
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One thing t'ai chi chuan encourages the players to do is to be aware. Movement reflects personality reflects movement. Where is the self nature in this two person expression?<br />
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If there is ever an attachment to a Form of the Mind...anger, arrogance, vulnerability, confusion...even Lightness and Ease....that exhibits itself in the personality reflected in the movement, there presents itself the opportunity for the other player to suddenly have something solid upon which he/she can launch the other out of the circle!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. <span style="color: black;">Listen/download audio talks from the Tallahassee</span> <span style="color: black;">Chan group at http://www.tallahasseechan.com/talks.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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