Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How Many Ww Points For Kettle Corn

Bodhitag? Schmodietag!

Thursday 09 December 2010

One of the favorite bands of American Hardcore -author Steven Bush Zero Defex from Akron, Ohio! click on the sentence to read what he has to say!

I also have now a f RENCH author page . So go and look at you when you French or Canadian or Ghanaian or whatever else you're always a-ere where they speak French.

is also part two of my interview of Dr. Dick's Sexberatung now online. So you will let you go listen.

Yesterday I am on the 30th Anniversary of John Lennon's death went to the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. I have not included this video. But it is a visual report about what I experienced there (you have no idea how damn cold it was):


I think I'm some taken hours after that of this video has arrived there, but it was basically the same scene. And I'm just stayed for about as long as this video is running. I think three or four songs I've heard. I could see the musicians as little as one who has taken on this video. I think they were somewhere in the middle of the circle. There was a trumpet player who is entered with from the moment I got there. I have no idea how anyone could play guitar in the cold. Then again it was freezing cold when the Beatles played on the roof of the Apple offices, their last concert (which for the film Let It Be). written

When I do something on Facebook have, some people were surprised about the fact that I would write something about John Lennon's death rather than to Bodhitag, the supposed day of Buddha's enlightenment, which is also on 8 Decemeber is committed. has

Bodhitag But I never meant so much. None of the teachers with whom I have ever sat a big deal made of it or Rohatsu Sesshins held that the common practice in many Zen centers around this season. Nishijima Roshi was always a bit grumpy about everything that was even a little ceremonious or superstitious. I think that it was the idea of a special Sesshin in one day to the Buddha probably did not really enlightened pretty ridiculous occurred.

I do not think it particularly important. Sometimes you get an arbitrary date out for a cause and a Sesshin around 8 December is as good as any other day. So why not? I plan on a Rohatsu Sesshin here this weekend to participate in New York.

But I tend to share Gudo Nishijima's attitude to which certain days as "holy" to see than others. I mean, I love Christmas even though I am not a Christian. But it is not more or less sacred than any other day.

The idea of such things as einn Christmas truce in the war has always puzzled me. I mean if a cease-fire on 25 may have December, why not stop shooting each other with the same all over? Makes no sense to me.

I sit zazen every day except any really tough circumstances prevent it. That's the most essential part of Buddhist practice. aufzusparen All your zazen for a Sesshin early December is for me just as much sense as a fire break at Christmas. It is about the same setting, actually. Of course, it is a less violent expression of this attitude. But it comes pretty much from the same direction.


Kates Playgroundfeets

New Suicide Girls column: Live simply

Monday 6 December 2010

OK, I have a new Suicide Girls blog yet. It says Living Simply [in the sense of "lead a simple life"] and you can find where you on the words " Living Simply clicking. Is not that simple? And it is the "safe work" page. necked No breasts or ass!

I did last night a Skype call from a friend from Japan. They just came back from a 5-day Zen retreat in another tradition which is to remain unnamed, but rhymes with Barada Basutani. She showed me this big fat wounds on her two shoulders of violent blows to the kyosaku [Department of Compassion]. She said not once heard a beat on her when she screamed. cried types in the Zendo "Mu! Mu! Muuuuuuu!" while they were sitting. Apparently three people from the group gained enlightenment. She was not one of them.

The whole thing sounded very strange and even ridiculous. I'm glad I've never been to such a Zen retreat. I would have immediately rejected. Maybe if I'm not so tired I sometimes write an entry about why I find this type of exercise so incredibly silly.

Right now I'm just puzzled.


Deck Snowmobile Truck

podcast Often Awesome, urban Zen and the right attitude (again)


Wednesday 1 December 2010


First, the Hardcore Zen Podcast was just upgraded. It's all about SEX! So go ahead, stop it out!

I am now on another podcast: Dr. Dick's Sex Advice

Second, now there is the Christmas time there, I would like to draw your attention once more on Often Awesome , a group of friends of mine who have joined forces to bring her boyfriend Tim LaFollette in his fight against Lou Gehrig's disease support. It's a damn shame to live in a country where the only way with which someone can he get the help he needs is to be begging strangers. But that is the USA. Leave me alone ... just what Donation!

Back to questions of readers. I have no special e-mail for my first question. It's just something that comes up again and again, right now I'm moving to New York. The question goes something like this: How can I practice in a city environment, with all the noise and anger and pace and distraction?

I did last night in an Shohaku Okumuras Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo [The realization of the Genjokoan: The key to Dogen Shobogenzo] and met with the answer. Okumura says the old Japanese folk tale of the rabbit in the moon. The story I of I this site copied and pasted, goes something like this:

" The old man of the moon one day looked at a large forest down to the earth and saw three friends sitting together around a fire. There were a rabbit, a monkey and a fox. Surprised such a group to see friends, he drove down to earth and turned into a beggar. He said the three friends that he was very hungry. When they heard this, they were all going to get him something to eat. The monkey brought the man a lot of fruit, and he came back with a big fish. However, the rabbit could find no food for the man and asked the monkey to collect firewood and the fox in order to foment a big fire. When the fire was burning very brightly, said the rabbit to the beggar that there was nothing he could give him, so he would jump into the fire and when he was roasted, the beggar could eat it. Just as the rabbit to jump into the fire, was transformed back to the beggar to the man of the moon and the rabbit said that it was very friendly, and that it should do what it could not hurt. Because he found that the rabbit was the friendliest of the three animals, he took it ascribes to the moon. "

Okumura, that he often as a young Buddhist monk like this Rabbit felt. He was ordained at 21 and began to live off the donations of others. He says he never developed because of skills that would enable him to engage in normal work. He often felt guilty for getting contributions from people that "real work" carried on without them return something. All he had to offer was his practice. He says: "I tried to practice zazen, like I would offer my body and mind all the Buddhas." And of course he means by "all the Buddhas" every human being.

In New York City is like the people to honk. It is not so bad as in Cairo or Jerusalem because here you have to actually pay for unnecessary honking, a fine, if you get caught. Although I doubt that anyone will ever be punished for it .. Whatever the case, every time I hear some asshole honking without good reason *, I remember that I am doing my practice for him. I train themselves to be better able to stress and frustration contribute nothing to the guys like him get to vent his anger on others. Every little bit helps.

FIRST E-MAIL QUESTIONS FOR TODAY:

typed A great friend of mine this question for me because I now 'm in prison. In your book "Sit Down and Shut up [sit down, shut up]" You say that Buddhism Dogen said not to study without a teacher. But what if you're in a place where there are no teachers? I have read all your books more than once. I have read books by Gudo Nishijima, drugs, etc. I take time every day for zazen. What more can (or should) do I do? Is there a way to study Buddhism without a teacher?

MY ANSWER:

I get many questions in the way "How can I study Buddhism when I'm so far away from a teacher, poor me". And I'm not terribly sympathetic because I've managed to find a teacher in Kent, Ohio in 1983, a time and a place where no one would have to be there to teach me Zen. I know of excellent teachers in such remote places like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Helsinki, Finland. There are incredible teachers at every corner when you nachsiehst only once. Many people who ask this question are either too lazy to look around or too fussy to find a teacher who reflects the way they pre-image. If I had been waiting for a teacher's right for my ideals of a teacher, I never would have learned from Tim McCarthy and Gudo Nishijima.

But some people like the guy who wrote to me, are really in a position where is simply no teachers. To which I say, they should simply continue their practice. There are times in practice where you really need the opinion of another. can happen as an example what if you're trying to meditation to teach myself, I often tell the story of Shoko Asahara, the butthead who said he was enlightened, and that meant it was OK to anticipate the apocalypse by Tokyo's subway with poison gas fully inflated.

This is a very extreme case. You'll never do what likely. I hope. Most likely, your zazen is kinda boring and maybe a little confusing. You might sometimes feel have to give up. But you'll be all right. Wait a bit and you'll find in the vicinity of a teacher again just at the moment when you really need that. I really believe in the old cliche "if the student is ready the teacher appears."

types who try to solve the problem of students who think they need a teacher NOW NOW, by being readily available to do, probably no one a favor. The difficulty is linked to this is to find a teacher often part of the process of ensuring that you are ready when you finally find one.

As for things other than what you Zazen and reading can do ... I do not know. That's all I've really done for my practice to speak out with my teachers. Joshu Sasaki says to read many good books. I liked this advice has always been. I made my own website Zenbücher of which, I believe that they are not crap .

SECOND E-MAIL QUESTION:

I have your excellent book Sit Down and Shut Up read and have a question about the chapter "Proper Posture Required [right Attitude required]. " It is out of the way in which the chapter is written not clear how zazen your opinion, is possible in other positions. Although I have learned that the attitude is very important, I have also learned that it is possible to zazen practice by kneeling on a bench, sitting in a chair, in walking or even lying down, as long as the practitioner of body posture enough keen interest. Currently I have not the elasticity to practice in the prestigious Lotus attitude, so I use a Meditationsbänkchen. Do you think my meditation practice complete crap is that? Because - I do not think so! However, I'm just not a real Sangha, to the I could go and ask questions.

MY ANSWER:

As I have said many times before, to the holding in zazen is arbitrary. It is part of the practice. Yoga is not a real teacher would sit a normal, healthy person in a chair and lean forward slightly can to tell them they would have taken the position "down-looking dog" just like everyone else in the course. But if this yoga teacher sees that prevented easily on a chair, the best approximation sit at the attitude of "down-looking dog, he would do his best for that person to help take one day with a little practice, the right attitude to.

I think Zen teacher her students do not have big favor if they tell them that on chairs or benches to sit or even lie on the floor was the same as cross-legged on a cushion to sit. Yes, I know that the full lotus position is hell. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FULL LOTUS POSITION TAKE! I do not know why every time I say something the right attitude one million commentators immediately assume I mean the full lotus position and get over it a bright red head and angry.

But unless you can really, honestly, no crap, absolutely not on the one or the other way kreuzbeinig then sitting on a cushion you have to really kreuzbeinig sit on a pillow to practice zazen correctly. Gudo Nishijima here describes how to do it .

your meditation practice is NOT complete ass, because you operate on a bench. Do I have to say that again? Perhaps already, because so many people seem to miss it when I make such statements. So here again:

your meditation practice is NOT complete ass, because you operate on a bench.

This Kniebänkchen get a usable zazen posture close to some extent. But it's still not the same. I would continue to work on my flexibility. Try some yoga classes. They'll do well! You might even get to know because some sweet people! Then, after a while, you can do the bench away to the time when you are old and arthritic and no longer the position fix. Then if you really need the bench get it back out and use it.


* And I do mean "assholes the horns, without good cause." I am here once in the 1.7 seconds it been honked at the car needs from neutral to first gear to switch. I have also heard how another was honked because he had refused me to go, as I crossed the street in front of a car in the front of him went (I had way green on the pedestrian traffic lights, as if that would ever make any difference).


Thursday, December 9, 2010

West Bend Stir Crazy Tough Popcorn

The death again


Sunday 28 November 2010 asking

Eric:

" Although you have spoken in all your books from death ka I nn me just remind you that once the fear've mentioned before death to finally say: Buddhism can not do anything against our fear of death. And our lives would not be shit without them somehow? I disagree. If I could spend the rest of my life without this bloodcurdling fear of nonexistence, I would be much happier. When I read that I assumed that you are referring to us on the evolutionary biology's inherent fear that most of us saved from things like Russian roulette with a full magazine to play or pipe cleaners, drinking contests to hold with his mates. If that's what you mean, I'm full of your opinion. But what about the essential existential fear - or nausea in Sartre's sense - that arises at the thought of his own death. If I seriously confront the fact that my consciousness in a few decades - not more than six or seven - will be wiped out, the last one for me) to keep from sleeping, and 2) to make me really depressed. Now I know that Buddhism says that we die all the time. I know that there is no essential self that over the years of a life is a constant unit of time. However, it is damn scary about the Nothing to ponder. So, Zazen provides a remedy? If it does, great. But if it does not, why one should rather practice zazen as to extinguish themselves with video games, wild sex and Alk. Or whatever. To say that was the practice their own profit is quite fine and nice, but where's the sense when we still will turn pale with fear and sadness, given the omnipresence of death "


Brad says?

Zazen is not free you from your fear of death. Or maybe. But Alk, wild sex and video games are not. not least this far have I heard. Although I've never really played video games and I do not like to be * drunk. As for wild sex I'll leave that to other bloggers to speculate.

But I guess you mean more general distraction to you is to help to forget about serious matters. So in my case are the more Gamera- films , Pad Thai and ... uh ... wild sex (as ob ..). And you ask yourself if your fear of death Zen practice in a way will finally extinguish as such temporary solutions do not.

I can not tell you what it will do for you. I will give no guarantees or promises at all. I can only say how it worked for me.

How did I found that I was terrified of death. When I was a teenager I realized that there was a terrible genetic disease in my family that often people crippled and / or killed before they reached the age that I have now. I thought I would not live long and have made me with fear in his pants.

But for whatever reason However I did not my search designed as do most people. I was not looking for an escape from their lives. When I was interested in religion was all about escape. They offered opportunities of which they said they could escape from this life to a life in heaven or Krishna Loka or many other places. They did not deny death. They were obsessed with death. But they denied life. What they said sounded to me something like "swap your current life for a chance at something wonderful after death".

They did it sound as if the exchange was reasonable. I may live only a few decades in this world. But it changed his life, they said, was for all eternity. So should I now have a bland, boring, limited bread and butter-life periods in the hope of a really super fantastic future in the afterlife that would last forever.

The problem was, I was able to give life after death, no belief. The evidence for the existence of which were not at all convincing.

But I know I am living this life. So my quest was about how I could make this life better. It seems that most people who look after this life to improve, go on the hunt for hedonistic fun. Drugs, sex, money, material things ... these seem like the path of worldly happiness without consideration of any belief in life after death.

This worked for me from the mostly the same reasons, also not. There are not very much evidence that money, power, sex and the like do more real satisfaction. I was well aware that the excessive life of such people as Elvis Presley and Howard Hughes gave everything they could want and yet they were unhappy. Later, Kurt Cobain did just that by the I hoped that I could do it, it will turn a crappy paid career as an indie-rockers of a super-famous-being. What has he brought? Then I started working in the film industry and to regularly communicate with famous people who were absolutely stuffed with cash and I saw that they were as unhappy as everyone else.

The Zen practice turned to this life and how you could do better. It offered no magic solutions, what appealed to me because I did not before the. It does not deal with questions of the Beyond, which was great, because I did not believe it. She demanded a fair Degree of deprivation, but not because you deprivation today for a future of wonder in paradise traded. She recommended a degree of deprivation as it is, chasing after money, fame, sex, property and power, her only bring unnecessary stress to their lives and it would not pay if you attain these things. I knew that this is true. I could see it myself.

But what is in front with the fear of death. What with the fear of future extinction?

I have learned through the exercise to better understand this fear. I began to see that the root of this fear is a projection of my imagined even in a future. I began to realize that there is a fear of things that are just here and now are not real.

This alleviates the fear of death, not necessarily. When I think of the possibility of for-always-disappearance of Brad Warner, I do not like that really. But I also understand that this fear is completely irrational.

What I am about to say may sound like mysticism, but nevertheless. Once you start to take this moment for what it really is at this moment, you begin to understand that one can never be extinguished in the sense of really how it has previously presented. What am I for "Brad Warner" think is a construct of my thinking. It is not real But there is a real thing, the mental on a construction of what I "Brad Warner" call-based. This something can not really die because it was never really born. At least not in the sense that we usually mean that things born and die. Yes, Brad Warner was born and yes, Brad Warner will die. And yet he is not only an individual being. He is also a temporary phenomenon of something so vast and unknowable Barem that it has neither beginning nor end.

Stranger shit, what? Excuse.

All right. I'm still afraid of death. But not very much.

I forgot whether it was Shunryu Suzuki or Dainan Katagiri, but both died of cancer. One or the other of which said toward the end of his life "I will not die.".

I've heard that this statement could freak out some of their followers. It implied that either a) an enlightened master still afraid before death or b) the master was not really enlightened, because an enlightened master can not possibly be afraid before death. None of these options was particularly attractive to those who had placed their trust in these masterpieces, which they thought he was enlightened and accordingly able to redeem them from their fear of death.

But I do not think that the statement implies a fear of death. It implies only that the teacher would have liked to have lived longer. That's not really the same. And even if it means he was afraid of death, what's so wrong with that? I am afraid of dentist appointments. But that does not mean that I'm afraid to exist any more.

I've ever had because of the fear of death from insomnia. It has annoyed me endlessly. Today it is about as frightening as, say, the idea of a root canal treatment. There is nothing to go through what I want but it cost me any sleepless nights.

You must understand, however, that what level whatever I may have succeeded to overcome my fear of death, I owe the years often difficult to practice. It does not overcome his fear of death in which one simply decides not afraid of death more have to. It is not that simple. If it were, everyone would do it.


* Am I the only person in this world to be drunk as a most unpleasant feeling feel? I have nothing against the action of a glass of wine or beer, but to be really drunk feels horrible for me, such as be sick.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Movies Naugty America Media Fire

Report by Elke

The last post we had written on the applications for permanent visas.
short: SUPER went. All documents arrived on time in Recife (via the detour of Curitiba, where translation, according to friends by Pastor by plane Recife). On the first day could make together with our colleague Elke Anke all necessary documents to the Polícia Federal (Federal Police). There was nothing, it had nothing to be corrected. That was very unusual. Now we can wait for approval, but that's not the first time that important. It must now take quiet for so long that I-Thomas-as far back 'm healthy, that I may receive a permanent visa in person, at least this is our wish.
Meanwhile Elke for me at a Brazilian Hämatologin to inquire after the medical options for me. She met a doctor who asked very competently by the disease and could tell you exactly how to care and, where appropriate, a treatment could be carried out there. She could confirm that the public hospital in Recife very good treatment options exist and that there are in serious condition and no waiting. They also touched on very specific areas of the disease in Brazil losing is routinely made in recurrence of the disease at any time in case of a repetition of which was here in Germany the question. Here you catch it at first, when necessary, which would mean possibly several months.
Another: is perhaps in the vicinity of the project a favorable place to live, from which we can then look for a permanent home. The planned apartment / house would be ideally suited for it and very cheap.
Everything can be reinforced to us with confidence and continue to wait for us again when God granted the release, that we can go back again.
PS: I am a little jealous of Elke! ;-)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

What Color Are Acute Hiv Rashes

beautiful music for Advent

you look out this video on Youtube: It is a ship loaded I find something special.

Television Prices After Superbowl

Happy Thanksgiving America and Zen, which is not named Zen


Wednesday 24 November 2010


First: The Suicide Girls radio interview I've made is now online. Enjoy it on you, here you go by:

http://blip.tv/file/4402557

I think it is better with increasing time, so jumps quietly a bit backwards.

Next: My good friend Marrrrrrkus from Finland (home of delicious Pippari) told me a couple of articles about me that I had not seen before:

The Brad Warner Paradox [The Brad Warner's paradox]

Brad Warner Vs. The Dalai Lama [Brad Warner against the Dalai Lama]

I do not even know what "Brad Warner against the Dalai Lama" has anything to do with me, apart from the opening quotation times. It is mostly a discussion about God.

Then there is a nice review of my book in the Elephant Journal . The new book is, of course Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to polyamory and Everything in Between . It is selling like sliced bread here in New York City. I wish it would sell like books ...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and then my sister is on the way to New York City, so we can watch Macy's Parade. Yikes! This is my second Thanksgiving this year because I was in Canada last month when she celebrated it there. I think up there, they add the word "Thanksgiving" a "u" to, but I'm not sure.

A guy asked me the other day after what he called the "Microsoft-ization" of Zen. I'm not sure why he used that term. He said the way in which people out there peddling the products in the core Zen, but they do not call it "Zen". They carefully avoid to use words like "Buddhism" or "Dharma", even though they have most of their scam from Zenbüchern. Sometimes directly from my Zenbüchern.

I have also noticed and it bothers me. I am very well aware that the use of words such as "Zen", "Buddhism" will reduce or "Dharma" your potential audience at least by half. Shit, when I go to these sites here bring the slightest mention of Dogen, I get half a dozen comments, I would only be the "Doge's cult spread, instead of" true Buddhism. " I will try to raise this issue at another time.

But peddling all these guys out the Zen, but do not call it Zen, why should I interfere with that? It bothers me because they want to believe in a can, could you just decide, "more in the moment" to live in and it happened. Or they offer a new miracle method up the "fast, easy and effective," there does (which literally is a statement of such a method which I have just come across which). These methods do not work of course. Although they could perhaps bring some short-term thrills.

It is as if you'll wake up one morning and find that you're fat. Not only will you thou clear that your entire company consists almost entirely of people who have at least 100 pounds overweight and that every service, every conversation, every profession, etc. in the whole of society is only there to make fat people fatter . You could make up your mind in such a society not just do not fat to be. You'd have to spend a lot of time, perseverance and energy, only to find out how you can lose. Your senses may be dulled by your environment that you'd be unable to get someone to see at a healthy weight. Your friends would call such a person sick as serious.

methods of the variety Big Mind ® seem to me like the plain cake diet of this fictional society. Some wobbly type tells you the best way to achieve a healthy weight, eat as much cake as possible, because all you really want are not 100 pounds overweight, but 150 or 200 pounds to weigh more than now.

Anyway, yes, this whole idea to steal from Zen, allowing it to understand and to hide the source of your inspiration then, because it may discourage paying customers annoys me. And I admit, one of the reasons is that I do not own and can make so much less money than people can do it. It would feel too insincere. Which minor insights whatsoever I have, this I have gained through Zen practice. If I denied it, I would cheat.

Anyway, I think many people do not have any insights. Yesterday I received an email in which there was, "You think only of yourself and have no wisdom to offer, "Oh, thank you. That's nice.

OK. So whatever.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, America! I see you at the parade!


Friday, November 26, 2010

Horse Lice Egg Removal

border


Sunday 21 November 2010


Let me tell you about my latest adventures. Last Thursday I had stuffed a PT Cruiser-load stuff into my car and crossed the border from Quebec, Canada, to New York, USA. I had this limit has crossed twice during my stay in Montreal as I had a few gigs in New York. Since it was pupseinfach. Even with a truckload of stuff I waved the Canadian border officials through. So I was expecting anything special when I returned to the land that now time is better or worse, my home country.

But when I am DMZ [DeMilitarized Zone - demilitarized zone] arrived, which separates the People's Republic of Canada by the United Empire of America, I found out quickly that this should not be the case. I was selected for a secondary verification. That means I had to get out of my car, my keys border-handed Gestapo and put me in an interrogation room can. There I had my pockets empty and the food stülpen to the outside, there was the small piece of cheese, I had received from a friend cut open to check whether there were drugs there, I have been many questions asked as I have my living contest etc . Look, folks, I am a U.S. citizen. Even if I was a vagabond without any income, you could tell me not to return to Canada. I think they were a little confused how this stuff works all the border controls.

I've taken it all with humor. What can be as else to do? But it was annoying and was not even a little bit of sense. What you smuggle one of Canada? Seriously. There is not even any drugs in Quebec to buy, of which one could not get in New York, and I'm sure they are also cheaper. In the U.S., everything is cheaper than in Canada. And which one has heard of this nonsense because of the bombers of the 11th September came through Canada into the country? That is not true .

Pah. After that I made it to Brooklyn, where I found to my great surprise, a car park just around the corner of the front door of my house. That was Thursday night and parking on the street is prohibited for cleaning Friday morning from 9.30-11.00 clock. But I was not worried because I had parked ever been to Brooklyn and it was no big deal.

What I did not know was that this week about four blocks of my neighborhood streets and sidewalks will be re-made which meant that parking was much more difficult. At 9 clock on Friday morning I drove off to find a parking space. It took well over an hour, and much of the Time went on it for it to cash a ticket from the New York police because I had allegedly violated "no right on red", which was clearly signposted said. Later, I came right back to that corner to find extra signs, which they claimed they were there. I have not seen any. Behind me they had stopped a line of three or four other cars, which were all punished for the same offense. They have not seen the alleged signs too. This is the New York equivalent of a southern radar trap. I'll look again, but I'm pretty sure that these signs - when it should really be - deliberately concealed were hearts to the sole purpose of a highly questionable source of money.

All this to move along with the usual stress that it brings and not a reliable source of income to have (do you think writers are rich? Think again about it.) And some other stress-causing incidents that I will not be published, led to a rather unfortunate Bradley.

During this time of deep pessimism and malaise, I started again about this "is not very Buddhist of you" stuff to think. I'm sure many people read this blog are familiar with it. I have also written an article in the March 2008 issue of Shambhala Sun (it is the issue with the Dalai Lama on the cover. wait, no! ).

This is when someone who is Buddhist by some things she will become confused and tell all your friends "That's not very Buddhist of you!".

I'll tell you what, friends and neighbors, without my constant practice, I would not through life . Create Forget all that stuff out of wide-open eyes and enlightenment. I would not even make it a damn day. This is one of a thousand million reasons why I have problems with these assholes, get rid of meditation as the path that turns a normal person in super-meditation-man, the guy who never his hairstyle (or lack thereof) tousled gets no matter what storms life brings him.

Jaja. I know, I know. You've seen this guy! He's on YouTube! He has short videos in which he giggles and smiles and a really sugary soothing voice about speaks, how he found his way, as cool as a water ice to stay, no matter what. The guy is the real deal!

You know what? Go and run behind this guy if you like. purchase his magic potions. I do not care. Come not with your stomach pain to me if you have understood what a fraud it was. That's all I ask.

each capable actor can play this role for the ten minutes that YouTube allows you, or for an hour or two that he was on the stage , or for a single 15-minute conversation in which he rings the bell and sent away up if he is too tense. This is not even a particularly impressive trick. Real life, however, is quite different.

This is (again) one of the trillion, and two reasons why I am totally against this online Zen master stuff. It is so easy, the role of super-meditation-man in a Skype interview to play, where you can not see the chaos in the rooms of this type, which has just seen is not so in the camera (literally and meant in the figurative sense) where you do not get to see how your teacher behaves when he spent two hours on the motorway in a traffic jam stands, where you can not smell his garlic breath.

Baa

Anyway, last night I went out, ate Belgian fries in the East Village and everything was much better.


Things To Say In A Muslium Wedding Card

Philadelphia Freedom * and Nishijima Article


Tuesday 16 November 2010


Here I am at the Philadelphia International Airport with an hour until my flight back twice relocated to Montreal's. I had another day in Los Angeles after the first flight I had booked was delayed, so I missed my connecting flight would. Now my connecting flight was canceled to Montreal and I was pushed into another. That is the reason why I should travel less!

I've seen some of the comments, and I want everyone to point to a website which is linked since ancient times on this blog, but some people commenting here seems to be missed:

Lectures and Articles by Nishijima Roshi ['s lectures and articles by Nishijima Roshi]

One of the comments in the last post here was referring apparently to Nishijima "Very personal and special Dogen's interpretation." I assume he means Nishijima's idea of the four times the logical structure of the Shobogenzo. Reading these kind of Dogen is not just a personal preference, but the result of decades of work with the text. Nishijima has written to read a very detailed explanation of its kind Shobogenzo that as a free download here is available:

Understanding Shobogenzo [To understand the Shobogenzo]

A Another comment says something like that Nishijima "was the ANS [autonomic nervous system] / Four perspectives-nerd ". Nishijima ideas for ANS are discussed here:

Buddhism and the Autonomic Nervous System [Buddhism and the autonomic nervous system]

I these ideas find no way "strange". He tried to use the language of science rather than a mystical, to explain the impact of zazen practice. He does not claim to be a neurologist or even an expert on the functioning of the ANS. He is right in the first paragraph with perfectly clear. But he finds this Kind of explanation as zazen much more useful than the earlier works, mystical-sounding language.

It is easy to squeeze the entire work of someone in a few words rausgepickte and thereby completely rejected. D [aisetz]. T. Suzuki has done this when he wrote of Dogen. happens to the the best and is often committed by people who have impressive references.

I just wanted to give anyone interested a chance to check out Nishijima's own words at himself. Most articles on the above linked page to read short and simple.



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结 跏趺坐 or why the new Shobogenzo the second best translation is

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

preliminary Logistic something. Should you be in Los Angeles you have another chance to hear me talk. Tomorrow (Sunday November 14, 2010) will be made in Bodhi Tree bookstore keep 8585 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA, USA by 19 clock a lecture.

The people of the Doges Sangha Los Angeles have cut together some videos of me and have them uploaded to the Dogen Sangha Los Angeles YouTube channel . As soon come even more.

My n euestes book Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to polyamory and Everything in Between is from a website called Religious Bulletin nominated a religious book with the worst Binding design . Juhu! I hope I win, because then I can "Award-winning author" on my next book printed.

I have just published a new article on the Suicide Girls' Safe For Work blog . He is Desire and you can find where you on the word " Desire "in this sentence clicking here.

And when speaking of Suicide Girls, tomorrow I will n eight are in their radio show. For more details, click right here !

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Last weekend I was in the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) to participate in an event to celebrate the release of Kazuaki Tanahashi's translation of the entire 95 chapters of the participating Shobogenzo.

If you want to see what I have said there going to this link and coil minutes prior to 36:26.

This new English edition of the Shobogenzo is essentially the San Francisco Zen Center Edition of Shobogenzo. You own the copyright, they made up the largest share of financing for the project and 32 priests from SFZC acted as co-translator of which each has on average one to three chapters edited.

course, was during the celebrations this weekend of some claims this is the best English translation of the Shobogenzo was. And of course, claimed those who contributed to the English or other translations, as in my case, associated with the translators are the best that we had. It was something of a running gag on. If you like the video of my presentation on Saturday, look, you see my entry for this gag. I was the fourth or fifth person this joke on that day brought. But it was not a joke.

At one point, Kaz said that every translation in their own way the best thing. Each deliver unique and valuable perspectives. A very diplomatic opinion! And true. I'm sure he meant just the same.

I've not read much of Tanahashi Shobogenzo. I've read a few chapters when I was in the summer of Tassajara and a few more since I bought a copy ($ 150, ouch! And that was with a discount!). I am not an expert in it as the Nishijima / Cross issue, which I have read at least four times from top to bottom, and my favorite parts maybe a dozen times or more above the yes I myself have written a book (see link below). However, I would even at this issue embarrassed when I have to quote chapter and verse to.

However, I feel safe when I say that Shobogenzo Tanahashi is the second best available version, after that of Gudo Wafu Nishijima and Chodo Cross, which will always be the best (which is high praise from of someone as picky as I am, whatever that is worth). I am familiar with earlier versions of Tanahashis translations are published in books such as "Moon in a Dewdrop" and "Enlightenment Unfolds". In the few Years in which it was difficult to get a copy of the Nishijima / Cross to get the issue I desöfteren Tanahashi recommended books. I felt that they were the original to others. Now we find the Nishijima / Cross version easily online (see links below).

The main reason of the Nishjima / Cross makes the best version, because it is the original Japanese Shobogenzo so faithfully reproduces that it is almost too much. Even Dogen strange word order has been preserved as much as possible. This means it loses a lot in terms of readability. But now, this is so in Dogen's original. So it should be. It was never meant to be read easily.

The other big advantage of the Nishijima / Cross edition are the extensive footnotes on each page. All the obscure references to ancient Chinese writings Dogen made available. And every time a Japanese word was translated in a way that may be questionable, the Japanese originally written was noted as a footnote.

These two factors make this an issue of Shobogenzo, but for someone who can not read Japanese, English is up close to a magic glasses that allows one to read the Japanese original. No one will ever make it to do it this way, up to the date the the English language itself changed so that this version will be out of date because of it. apology. It is impossible.

One area in which the superior version Tanahashi is quite clear, in relation to poetry. I must confess, the Nishijima / Cross issue is as clumsy as hell. It sacrifices some of the beauty of the original by trying a very basic literal translation follow through. Tanahashi and his co-translators have made enormous in which they have made an English version of the singing as the original.

The reason why I believe that the total Tanahashi Edition not quite as good refers to many aspects which if you try to study something so personal and intimate as Zen in such a large institution such as the SFZC. You can see the reasons why I think this issue is only the second best in the shell out you look at the way you have chosen to translate the Japanese composite 结 跏趺坐 (kekka fuza).

结 跏趺坐 (kekka fuza) has a clear and absolutely unambiguous meaning in English. It means sitting in the lotus position (full, half or quarter). There is no other possible interpretation. So we're not talking here of a word which has shades of the translator could argue. It is a proper noun with a fixed English equivalent. The word is often used synonymously with the Shobogenzo Zazen use. has

during presentations on Monday in Green Gulch someone (I think Kaz was myself, but I'm a little insecure - it's probably somewhere in the video I've linked above) says something about how the translation was carried out by the example they have decided to translate this word.

Obviously did they originally "sitting with crossed legs," as translated, which is good. I believe that the formulation of the Nishijima / Cross version is used. However, some talk was in the SFZC certain readers might not be able to take the lotus position and therefore would be deterred by such a translation. After some discussion, decided the 结 跏趺坐 (kekka fuza) "sitting in meditation" is translated as to those who can not sit in the lotus position to convey the feeling to be included in Dogen's message.

I confess that this is not massive error. In reality it is pretty much the same. It distorts Dogen's message is not essential. But it distorts but .

There is so much interested in the minimum distortion of the message as much more about the reasons why the editors decided to Dogen's change message.

you have changed it because they felt that the real meaning of the term could reduce the attractiveness of the book. They changed it because of a committee decision.

The thing with the lotus position in Dogen Teaching is one argue passionately about the many people. But Dogen is here quite uncompromising. In Fukanzazengi (General Guidelines for Zazen) it permits the full or half-lotus, and that's it. My own teacher Gudo Nishijima wider meaning to the half-lotus so that it includes the West in general as a quarter of a lotus or "Burma's attitude" known. But Dogen says nothing about the use of seiza benches or chairs, or the myriad other possible postures encountered in Zen centers in America or Europe today.

I even had to listen quite a bit because I'm such a pedant in terms of attitude. But here's a little secret. Every time someone comes to me in confidence and shows me that he really and truly do not have full, half or quarter lotus (including Burman), I always try to work out with them any other way. I bet my ass that even master Dogen would have done the same thing in the situation. But in public I do not talk about other attitudes.

The reason why I never in public about zazen in a chair or seiza bench or whatever, talk is that it seems that as soon as one notes that there are such things possible to use now half of the bodied losflitzen order to get a chair so they have something more comfortable. But in Zazen is not about convenience. In fact, Zazen Zazen is not without a little discomfort.

Anyway, this change is only one of several in the book that reflects this attitude. On another occasion, Dogen was saying "the royal Bodhi Tree" changed to "the glorious Bodhi-tree" appear to be less sexist. I am sure that more such changes are abundant. They change the fundamental importance Dogen prose does not really change, but they do it, for reasons which seem somewhat ridiculous.

It happens when a committee is included. Gudo Nishijima and Mike Cross had no such problems. There were only two people involved in the major translation and three or four others in the editorial office.

What happened here with the new edition of the Shobogenzo is studied is also instructive in understanding the difference whether Zen in a large institution or manageable in an environment. I am a big fan of the San Francisco Zen Center. I like what they do and I am pleased to support them. I often recommend people to SFZC, go to Tassajara and Green Gulch. There are good places. There are good people.

But the truth is, that would be SFZC and similar institutions have been the only places that I knew that you can undertake study Zen, I would have probably endured more than a year. That's not my kind of scene.

it better one way and the other worse? I can only speak for myself. I sense the Nishijima / Cross edition of Shobogenzo than the best. This does not mean that I hate any other issue. But only one issue may be the best. Insofar as it relates to teaching styles, I'm with the Form of Zen gone the best for me seemed appropriate. If I felt that it would not fit me, I would have gone elsewhere.

Just to at this point to be absolutely clear, Kazuaki Tanahashi is Shobogenzo translation and an outstanding performance. Here is a good article how the whole thing came into existence . It's a really, really outstanding translation. I can recommend it strongly. I have $ 150, - spent my copy today and I can not allow such things actually. I have done it because I really like that.

But it's still not the best!

LINKS

Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye by Brad Warner

Master Dogen's Shobogenzo Book 1 translated translated by Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross

Master Dogen's Shobogenzo Book 2 of Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross

Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Book 3 translated by Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross

Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Book 4 translated by Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross

Enlightenment Unfolds of Dogen, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen translated's Shobo Genzo by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Free digital download of the Nishjima / Cross edition of Shobogenzo in PDF format



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Sunday 07 November 2010

I will be something about the Doge Translation Forum [Dogen Translation Forum] To publish, but for now you can find here something out of a really unique and interesting perspective .

are also the things I've done will soon be archived. I'll try to get the URL for it soon.

After San Francisco, I'm heading to Los Angeles where I have a bus load of gigs.


9th November 2010 (Tue) 19 clock - Hill Street Center 237 Hill St., Santa Monica, CA 90 405

10th November 2010 (Wed) 7 clock (yes, the 7 clock is the morning!) Dharma Zen Center 1025 S Cloverdale Ave Los Angeles, CA 90019-6733

10th November 2010 (Wed) 19:30 clock - Against The Stream 4300 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA

12th November 2010 (Fri) - 19 clock - An Lac Buddhist Temple 901 S. Saticoy Avenue, Ventura, CA 93004th $ 2 donation.

14th November 2010 (Sun) 19 clock - Bodhi Tree Bookstore 8585 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA


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