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ERRATA: April 2008
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Tuesday, 29 April 2008. Final Paragrah - Wait For It! I have learnt from experience, particularly in the context of Alexander work, that nearly at the end is a place where things are very liable to go wrong. Quad Erat Demonstrandum, Ad Nauseam. The word ZA, sitting, appears many times throughout the present chapter, and we tend to think we know what Master Dogen, Master Nagarjuna, and Gautama Buddha, meant when they spoke of "sitting.". Before I came to Alexander wor...
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ERRATA: Quick Realization of a Buddha's Body
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Thursday, 22 May 2008. Quick Realization of a Buddha's Body. In Shobogenzo Hotsu-Bodai-Shin, Kick-Starting the Bodhi-Mind, Master Dogen quotes four lines from the Lotus Sutra:. Constant spontaneous production of this thought:. How to make living beings. Able to enter the supreme truth/Way/awakening,. And quickly realize a buddha's body.". What is a buddha's body like? What is the body like of Sitting buddha? What is the body like of buddha Sitting? Is the neck stiff?
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ERRATA: Reaching Up, Not Clouding Over the Sun & Moon
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Saturday, 17 May 2008. Reaching Up, Not Clouding Over the Sun and Moon. FM Alexander wrote an enigmatic footnote in his second book, Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual, and then referred back to again it is his fourth and last book. He wrote: "I wish it to be understood that throughout this book I use the term conscious guidance and control to indicate, primarily, A PLANE TO BE REACHED rather than a method of reaching it.". There is mental effort, based...
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ERRATA: Playing Keep-Up With the Sun & Moon
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Monday, 12 May 2008. Playing Keep-Up With the Sun and Moon. A monk asks Zen Master Chimon Koso, "What is the matter of buddha going on up? The Master says, "The head of the staff is playing keep-up with the sun and moon.". The original meanings of the verb in question, given in the Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, include "contend for" and "make love to." ("The knob of the staff is fucking with the sun and moon"? Maybe a step too far.). Hmmmm I kind of l...
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ERRATA: February 2008
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Friday, 29 February 2008. Six Samsaric Realms: Preamble. Master Dogen wrote, in Shobogenzo chapter 4, Ikka no Myoju, The One Bright Pearl:. Do not worry about falling or not falling into the six states of cause and effect. They are the original state of being right from head to tail, which is never unclear, and the bright pearl is its features and the bright pearl is its eyes.". Links to this post. Truly being in hell is sitting in full lotus at dawn in Japan, spine ...
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ERRATA: January 2008
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Thursday, 31 January 2008. My wife has lots of cause to know. How mature I am. Yesterday she watched me throw. My toys out of the pram. Links to this post. Monday, 21 January 2008. The quest for authenticity. And turning of the light. Turns into, all too easily,. Trying to be right,. Which, sure as two plus one is three,. Makes neck and shoulders tight. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About the vestibular reflexes. Far from smoothing my path, however,...
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ERRATA: Performing Buddha
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Monday, 26 May 2008. I would like to get away from the manufactured dignity of professional Zen actors and performers. You know what I mean - so-called Dharma-heirs who are lay men and yet call each other "Venerable So and So," and like to sign off with "Gassho" or protestations of their desire for universal peace and compassion. "Get away" is probably not strong enough. I would like to kick that kind of dignity in the bollocks. No, that is not it, either. What I mea...
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ERRATA: Taking It Personally -- ERRATA
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Monday, 2 June 2008. Taking It Personally - ERRATA. Gudo's thesis is that the essence of his true Buddhism is to do something - to keep the spine straight vertically in order to balance the autonomic nervous system. Philosophically speaking, Gudo has presented his thesis against which I have posited my anti-thesis. Simply that. But the antagonism between Gudo and me has got many more dimensions to it than the philosophical. Sometimes it seems to me that so much of Bu...
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ERRATA: .... Will First Cross Over You, True Buddhists
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Thursday, 29 May 2008. Will First Cross Over You, True Buddhists. What is a true Buddhist? A true Buddhist might be one of those many thousands or millions of people in the world today who is searching for (or in some cases think they have found) the true meaning of Buddhism. What then, really, is Buddhism? Buddhism is a concept which is most truly understood by non-buddha. BUPPO, again, is the Buddha-Dharma, the Buddha's Truth of Sitting, the Method of Sitting of Ga...
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ERRATA: Q.E.D.
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WHO TURNED FREEDOM INTO ITS OPPOSITE? Thursday, 5 June 2008. If comments received on the previous post are representative of who is reading my blog, I would like to give up. In so doing, I shall state my conclusion, as follows:. Your posts are great, they bring light in to our ignorance, in our delusions. They try to clarify the essential, without any worries about personal image! For me the Shobogenzo was always impenetrable, with your help it makes more sense! Here is a question I have though! What we ...
