From ekp@excite.com Tue Nov 7 06:40:04 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eA7Cdwj13666; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 06:40:04 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001107123943.DEQM12989.kuku.excite.com@seamore.excite.com>; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 04:39:43 -0800 Message-ID: <5412041.973600783299.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 04:39:43 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, gmr1949@yahoo.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.80.146.214 Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma moving day.....your reposrts that the listserve website is not yet receiveing subscriptions has been noted and will be dealt with as soon as possible....i'll let you know....gotta go...metta...ike The view of interdependence makes for a great openness of mind. In general, instead of realizing that what we experience arises from a complicated network of causes, we tend to attribute happiness or sadness, for example, to single, individual sources. But if this were so, as soon as we came into contact with what we consider to be good, we would be automatically happy, and conversely, in the case of bad things, invariably sad. The causes of joy and sorrow would be easy to identify and target. It would all be very simple, and there would be good reason for our anger and attachment. When, on the other hand, we consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or resent, and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment of anger to arise. In this way, the view of interdependence makes our minds more relaxed and open. The Dalai Lama, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Tue Nov 7 07:01:02 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eA7D11j13838; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 07:01:01 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001107130054.DIAL12989.kuku.excite.com@seamore.excite.com>; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 05:00:54 -0800 Message-ID: <15261498.973602054107.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 05:00:54 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, gmr1949@yahoo.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.80.146.214 Subject: [Dailydharma] Re: IMPORTANT... Re: daily dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma All is well at the website...go on and subscribe....metta...ike > To: ekp@excite.com > Subject: Re: IMPORTANT... Re: daily dharma > > As Emily Littella said, "never mind." We re-loaded our Netscape and the submit > went through okay. It works. > Cesmir of Greg >***************************************** > ike wrote: > > > hey people....since i am moving this week i'm sending out three daily > > dharmas today with the hope that i'll be back on-line by thursday or > > friday...but who knows? i have no idea re:the set-up where i'm going, but > > i'll be back as soon as possible....also something new and exciting; at > > least for me....Keeping up the batch-list of addressees for the dailydharma > > has become a bit of a chore, especially when one considers that the squirrel > > which powers this 'puter has grown quite elderly and slow.... > > Along comes a gracious benefactor...one Elijah W....Elijah is the last > > person to request inclusion on the d/d mailing list and he noted what a long > > list is was and asked if i wouldn't do better to use a list-serve...i > > answered that i would love to but had no idea of how to go about > > it....well....Elijah has generously done it for us..... > > So here's the deal....if you would like to continue receiving the > > dailydharma or know anyone else who would like to receive it; please go to > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma and subscribe to the > > list-serve..... > > i will continue to send d/d via the present mode until December 1,2000; > > after which i will go exclusively to the list-serve as the single > > addressee.... > > > > > i include the correspondence between elijah and myself pursuant to this new > > arrangement....metta...ike > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:37:14 -0600 (CST) > > > From: elijah w. > > > To: ike > > > Subject: Re: daily dharma > > > Message-ID: > > > > > > > > > > elijah....i'll be happy to include you....glad you enjoy them...they're > > > > mostly from Tricycle and Daily Zen web sites....you can forward them to > > your > > > > friends...yes, a listserve would be helpful...can you help...i have > > very > > > > limited 'puter skills and i do it at work....metta...ike > > > > > > hi ike > > > > > > i set up a listserv for you- people can subscribe to it by going to: > > > > > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma > > > > > > and punching in their email addresses to subscribe. the list will send > > > them an automated message asking them to confirm their desire to get the > > > daily dharma. > > > > > > i have rigged things so that the list only accepts posts from your > > > ekp@excite.com email address. is that copacetic? :) that way there is no > > > spam spread. > > > > > > the address of the listserv is dailydharma@stderr.org > > > > > > let me know if there are other things i can do to help you... > > > > > > namaste > > > elijah > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Say Bye to Slow Internet! > > http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html > _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Fri Nov 10 10:41:03 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eAAGf1j11896; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:41:01 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001110164032.FGVI28899.fortune.excite.com@seamore.excite.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:40:32 -0800 Message-ID: <8666527.973874431746.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:40:31 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, gmr1949@yahoo.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 209.215.148.10 Subject: [Dailydharma] weekend dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma no i'm not back on-line yet, i'm sorry to say....i'm given to believe that it should happen some time next week.....i just borrowed Martha's 'puter long enough to let y'all know i'm still among the living and looking forward to seeing you at Sunday's sit.....here's a shot of dharma for the weekend...metta...ike ************************************************************** When I've faded away The kettle will still whistle And the birds still sing. I wonder if you'll recognize The sound of my voice. - Ji Aoi Ishi ************************************************************ Words cannot describe everything. The heart's message cannot be delivered in words. If one receives words literally, she will be lost. If she tries to explain with words, she will not attain enlightenment in this life. - Mu-mon 1228 ************************************************************ The pearl of the mind is always intrinsically pure. The rays of spirit pervade the ten directions; Know that the mind has no place to abide in; The pure land is in the mind; The ignorant seek it outside. If one understands the intention herein, It is called the pearl of the Dharma-nature. - Fa-chao ************************************************************* The term awakening means that the mind-essence is free from thought. This detachment from thought is characterized as similar to space: it is universal. - from the Awakening of Faith _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Fri Nov 17 10:02:08 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eAHG27731564; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:02:08 -0600 Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001117155128.EPZM10188.gigi.excite.com@seamore.excite.com>; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:51:28 -0800 Message-ID: <880682.974476288507.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:51:28 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, gmr1949@yahoo.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 208.150.219.208 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by eckhart.stderr.org id eAHG27731564 Subject: [Dailydharma] weekend dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma Still not on-line...just @ another borrowed 'puter....those of you who have already subscribed to the listserve are probably currently receiving double copies since for the time being i've just included the listserve address in my old batch....come december 1 i'll only be using the list serve address for reasons i've already cited...so please get signed up soon.....those of you who have not sit (sat?) @ the Church of the Savior will find it a really comfortable site to sit....i'll re-send the listserve address before the 1st of december...........metta...ike**************************************************************** Every person is an instrument of the Buddha law. Never once think yourself not so. By practice you will assuredly have direct experience of it. - Dogen (1200-1253) ****************************************************************************** Though we've been dwelling together, I don't know his name. Going along accepting the flow, just being thus, even the eminent sages since antiquity don't know him - how could the hasty ordinary type presume to understand? - Shitou (700-790) ********************************************************************************** Wonderful! Wonderful! The sermon of the inanimate is inconceivable. If you try to hear it with your ears After all you'll hardly understand Only when you hear it in your eyes Will you be able to know. - Dongshan (771–853) **************************************************************************** Just don't seek from another Or you'll be far estranged from self. I now go on alone Meeting it everywhere It now is just what I am I now am not it. You must comprehend in this way To merge with thusness. - Dongshan (771-853) _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Fri Nov 24 08:19:22 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eAOEJL730697; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 08:19:22 -0600 Received: from wiser.excite.com ([199.172.152.234]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001124141902.HGTL21036.gigi.excite.com@wiser.excite.com>; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:19:02 -0800 Message-ID: <13268880.975075542444.JavaMail.imail@wiser.excite.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:19:02 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, gmr1949@yahoo.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org, JF2067@tntech.edu, hemp99@kiwibox.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 208.150.219.42 Subject: [Dailydharma] Re: daily dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma hey folks...i'm still off-line and dailydharma is still in suspension but i hope and expect to have all that recitfied soon.....i just don't know "how soon"....please continue to sign up for the listseve according to the instructions below....metta....ike > hi ike > > i set up a listserv for you- people can subscribe to it by going to: > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma > > and punching in their email addresses to subscribe. the list will send > them an automated message asking them to confirm their desire to get the > daily dharma. > > i have rigged things so that the list only accepts posts from your > ekp@excite.com email address. is that copacetic? :) that way there is no > spam spread. > > the address of the listserv is dailydharma@stderr.org > > let me know if there are other things i can do to help you... > > namaste > elijah > _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Sat Nov 25 09:31:36 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eAPFVZu07321; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:31:35 -0600 Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001125153121.CKNE11064.gigi.excite.com@seamore.excite.com>; Sat, 25 Nov 2000 07:31:21 -0800 Message-ID: <29216727.975166281159.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 07:31:21 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by eckhart.stderr.org id eAPFVZu07321 Subject: [Dailydharma] sporadic dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: The Daily Dharma o! joy...my heart is full....i've found net access at my branch library....not a solution but a respite......keep signing up for the listserve....i still intend to go to it exclusively after December 1......metta...ike *************************************************************** Look! Look! Look! Who is that on the ancient bank Holding a fishing pole? The clouds are slowly moving by The waters are overflowing The bright moon over the reed flowers: Look for yourself. - Hsueh-tou ************************************************************** In this lump of flesh, there is a true person without position constantly going in and out through your faces. Those of you who have not verified this yet; look, look! - Lin-chi *********************************************************** After the mind is clarified, when one sits, it is like being on a solitary tall mountain in the midst of a distant field. Sitting on exposed ground at the top of the mountain, gazing off into the distance on all four sides – there are no limits. - Hung-jen ********************************************************** Alone I go, and alone come back, and get myself some freedom. Finally, no dusty thoughts hang up the top of my head. From here on in, I'm throwing out true and false together. Isn't this Cold Mountain's finest flowing stream? - Hsu Yun (1840-1958) _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 09:28:16 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDFSGk18570 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:28:16 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213152807.EYIV11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:28:07 -0800 Message-ID: <307379.976721287766.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:28:07 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: the listserve seems to be working.....let me know...ike In early times in Japan, bamboo-and-paper lanterns were used with candles inside. A blind man, visiting a friend one night, was offered a lantern to carry home with him. "I do not need a lantern," he said. "Darkness or light is all the same to me." "I know you do not need a lantern to find your way," his friend replied, "but if you don't have one, someone else may run into you. So you must take it." The blind man started off with the lantern and before he had walked very far someone ran squarely into him. "Look out where you are going!" he exclaimed to the stranger. "Can't you see this lantern?" "Your candle has burned out, brother," replied the stranger. Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 08:38:04 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDEc4k18002; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:38:04 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213143743.EXEV9490.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:37:43 -0800 Message-ID: <32165148.976718262662.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:37:42 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: BULLETIN BOARDS DAILY DHARMA BUDDHIST BASICS PERSONALS BUDDHIST GOODS AND SERVICES NEWS AND EVENTS TRICYCLE CONFERENCE DHARMA CENTERS RECOMMENDED READING INTERVIEWS CHANGE YOUR MIND DAY ABOUT TRICYCLE If banner link does not work, click here. The Buddha's maps for the journey to wisdom and happiness are attractive to many people because they are so simple. Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand. When the Buddha taught his ideas twenty-five hundred years ago, many people understood him so well as soon as they heard him that they were happy ever after. The people who didn't understand him immediately needed to practice meditation, and then they understood. Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 08:52:39 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDEqck18145; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:52:39 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213145237.ERMR11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:52:37 -0800 Message-ID: <29988239.976719156709.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:52:36 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: She is like white clouds rising from the mountains - No-mind from the start, she is like the roosting bird who feels no longing for the woods of home. But because this person of the Way happens to enjoy the mountains and streams she wanders among them unconcerned about how deep into the lakeside mountain peaks she goes. She has gone to the empty cliffs to pay respect to the hundred thousand forms of the Buddha. - Su Dongpo (1037-1101) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 09:24:05 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDFO5k18488; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:24:05 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213152358.EXMK11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:23:58 -0800 Message-ID: <33284500.976721038113.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:23:58 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: She is like white clouds rising from the mountains - No-mind from the start, she is like the roosting bird who feels no longing for the woods of home. But because this person of the Way happens to enjoy the mountains and streams she wanders among them unconcerned about how deep into the lakeside mountain peaks she goes. She has gone to the empty cliffs to pay respect to the hundred thousand forms of the Buddha. - Su Dongpo (1037-1101) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 09:24:45 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDFOjk18493; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:24:45 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213152438.EXQA11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:24:38 -0800 Message-ID: <9469132.976721078154.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:24:38 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: As the moon slips from behind a cloud and shines, so the master comes out from behind ignorance and shines. Swans rise and fly toward the sun. What magic! So do the pure conquer the armies of illusion and rise to fly. - Buddha in the Dhammapada _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 09:33:47 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBDFXkk18669; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:33:47 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001213153339.FHUU9490.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:33:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3164904.976721619512.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma listserve Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: the listserve seems to be working now; so sign up if you haven't yet (here's the address again) and let me know if you're getting the DD's (which will still be on a sporadic basis for awhile)...i'll start using the listserve exclusively in the next day or two.....metta....ike > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma > _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 14 09:24:05 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBEFO4k29548 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:24:04 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001214152402.NCNK9490.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:02 -0800 Message-ID: <31041044.976807442343.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:02 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > > > May all sentient beings > have happiness and its causes. > > May all sentient beings > be free from suffering and its causes. > > May all sentient beings > never be separated from sorrowless bliss. > > May all sentient beings > abide in equanimity, free from bias, attachment and anger. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 14 09:24:55 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBEFOtk29552 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:24:55 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001214152448.NCRH9490.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:48 -0800 Message-ID: <12950469.976807488147.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Ram Dass when asked if we were facing the New Age or Armageddon, he replied: I used to think I should have an opinion about this, but as I examined it, I saw that if its going to be Armageddon and I am going to die, the best thing to do to prepare for it is to quiet my mind, open my heart, and deal with the suffering in front of me. And if it's going to be the New Age, the best thing to do to prepare for it is to quiet my mind, open my heart, and deal with the suffering in front of me. It turns out it doesn't matter. So I don't care. From an interview with Sy Safransky in The Sun _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 14 09:26:21 2000 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBEFQLk29659 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:26:21 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191] claimed to be ewey.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001214152618.NBMN9549.ewey.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:26:18 -0800 Message-ID: <15216959.976807578880.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:26:18 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: When I was four years old, my mother used to bring me a cookie every time she came home from the market. I always went to the front yard and took my time eating it, sometimes half an hour or forty-five minutes for one cookie. I would take a small bite and look up at the sky. Then I would touch the dog with my feet and take another small bite. I just enjoyed being there, with the sky, the earth, the bamboo thickets, the cat, the dog, the flowers. I was able to do that because I did not have much to worry about. I did not think of the future, I did not regret the past. I was entirely in the present moment, with my cookie, the dog, the bamboo thickets, the cat, and everything. It is possible to eat our meals as slowly and joyfully as I ate the cookie of my childhood. Maybe you have the impression that you have lost the cookie of your childhood, but I am sure it is still there, somewhere in your heart. Everything is still there, and if you really want it, you can find it. Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 15 09:07:25 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBFF7Kk25916 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:07:25 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001215150704.TPLJ11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:07:04 -0800 Message-ID: <18058208.976892824326.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:07:04 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: There are three integral factors in Buddhist meditation--morality, concentration, and wisdom. Those three factors grow together as your practice deepens. Each one influences the other, so you cultivate the three of them together, not one at a time. When you have the wisdom to truly understand a situation, comapssion towards all the parties involved is automatic, and compassion means that you automatically restrain yourself from any thought, word, or deed that might harm yourself or others. Thus your behavior is automatically moral. It is only when you don't understand things deeply that you create problems. If you fail to see the consequences of your own action, you will blunder. The fellow who waits to become totally moral before he begins to meditate is waiting for a "but" that will never come. The ancient sages say that he is like a man waiting for the ocean to become calm so that he can go take a bath. Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 14 09:22:13 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBEFMCk29515; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:22:13 -0600 Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001214152147.NCUZ9407.gigi.excite.com@bernie.excite.com>; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:21:47 -0800 Message-ID: <1807179.976807306833.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:21:46 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: vmtellico@lycos.com, AAJOJ@aol.com, kbgill@esper.com, motcc@hotmail.com, JF2067@tntech.edu, fmart@utk.edu, kthr4u@cs.com, hofer@usit.net, matrixx303@prodigy.net, CHOOD@tntech.edu, morjay@bigfoot.com, mleverin@utk.edu, choose2bgrateful@aol.com, Diana_R_Dezayas@stercomm.com, sevant@securealert.com, goldmund1973@aol.com, elucipe@peoplepc.com, chickman00@yahoo.com, sedal61@yahoo.com, dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, greenearth@mindspring.com, maclortmp1@aol.com, hemp99@kiwibox.com, metronora@aol.com, imesfarm@earthlink.com, sabrinakumar@earthlink.net, Erthbeauty@aol.com, chloiea@mailexcite.com, pierre.dufour@oracle.com, bpostow@hotmail.com, songwrecrd@mindspring.com, rockyworks@mailexcite.com, awood77@yahoo.com, elw@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: OK group....i'm satisfied that the list serve is up and running so here's the address to subscribe and here's the last dailydharma with all the individual addresses.....enjoy...metta..ike > > > > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma > > > ********************************************************** > Daily Dharma 14 December 2000 For some, (the) task of coming back a thousand or ten thousand times in meditation may seem boring or even of questionable importance. But how many times have we gone away from the reality of our life?--perhaps a million or ten million times! If we wish to awaken, we have to find our way back her with our full being, our full attention....In this way, meditation is very much like training a puppy. You put the puppy down and say, "Stay." Does the puppy listen? It gets up and it runs away. You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay." And the puppy runs away over and over again. Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and pees in the corner or makes some other mess. Our minds are much the same as the puppy, only they create even bigger messes. In training the mind, or the puppy, we have to start over and over again. Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________________ > Send a cool gift with your E-Card > http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydharma mailing list > Dailydharma@stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 20 08:45:19 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBKEjIk08161 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:45:19 -0600 Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001220144441.ZFYY9407.gigi.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:44:41 -0800 Message-ID: <14114321.977323481068.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:44:41 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: "Physical form. . . is not the self. If physical form were the self, this body would not lend itself to dis-ease. One could get physical form to be like this and not be like that. But precisely because physical form is not the self, it lends itself to dis-ease. And one cannot get physical form to be like this and not be like that. "Feeling is not the self. . . . Perception is not the self. . . . Mental processes are not the self. . . . "Consciousness is not the self. If consciousness were the self, this consciousness would not lend itself to dis-ease. One could get consciousness to be like this and not be like that. But precisely because consciousness is not the self, it lends itself to dis-ease. And one cannot get consciousness to be like this and not be like that." Bhikkhu Thanissaro, The Mind Like Fire Unbound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 20 08:56:24 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBKEuOk08300 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:56:24 -0600 Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001220145613.ZIKA9407.gigi.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:13 -0800 Message-ID: <5394521.977324173214.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:13 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: "And how, monks, does a monk abide contemplating mind as mind? Here, a monk knows a lustful mind as lustful, a mind free from lust as free from lust; a hating mind as hating, a mind free from hate as free from hate; a deluded mind as deluded, an undeluded mind as undeluded; a contracted mind as contracted, a distracted mind as distracted; a developed mind as developed, an undeveloped mind as undeveloped; a surpassed mind as surpassed, an unsurpassed mind as unsurpassed; a concentrated mind as concentrated, an unconcentrated mind as unconcentrated; a liberated mind as liberated, an unliberated mind as unliberated....And he abides detached, not grasping at anything in the world. And that, monks, is how a monk abides contemplating mind as mind." Mahasatipatthana Sutta: The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, in Thus Have I Heard: The Long Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Maurice Walshe _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 20 08:57:07 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBKEv6k08347 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:57:07 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001220145655.YPBK11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:55 -0800 Message-ID: <23773009.977324215168.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:55 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by eckhart.stderr.org id eBKEv6k08347 Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: "To live without sufficiently powerful questions is to be unarmed in the thick of battle. And these cannot be another’s questions, but those which arise from your own tacit experience. It is a sad thing to rely on another’s question." - from Enlightening by G. BlueStone Devoted to Questioning, _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 09:36:06 2000 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBMFa2k08251 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:36:06 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191] claimed to be ewey.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001222153549.BWSC24504.ewey.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:35:49 -0800 Message-ID: <24688716.977499349408.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by eckhart.stderr.org id eBMFa2k08251 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: if there's anybody out there...let me hear that you've received this.....metta...ike ************************************************* The Practice of True Reality The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this, you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtly and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts of grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions. You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events. Everything is unhindered, clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illuminated and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrowpoints meeting. Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person. So we hear that this is how one on the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship. The Bright, Boundless Field The field of boundless emptiness is what exists from the very beginning. You must purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all the tendencies you have fabricated into apparent habits. Then you can reside in the clear circle of brightness. Utter emptiness has no image, upright independence does not rely on anything. Just expand and illuminate the original truth unconcerned by external conditions. Accordingly we are told to realize that not a single thing exists. In this field birth and death do not appear. The deep source, transparent down to the bottom, can radiantly shine and can respond unencumbered to each speck of dust without becoming its partner. The subtlety of seeing and hearing transcends mere colors and sounds. The whole affair functions without leaving traces, and mirrors without obscurations. Very naturally mind and dharmas emerge and harmonize. An Ancient said that non-mind enacts and fulfills the way of non-mind. Enacting and fulfilling the way of non-mind, finally you can rest. Proceeding you are able to guide the assembly. With thoughts clear, sitting silently, wander into the center of the circle of wonder. This is how you must penetrate and study. - taken from Cultivating the Empty Field – The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi Taigen Dan Leighton with Yi Wu Hongzhi is a 12th century Chinese Zen Master who is mostly unknown to us today, but was an immense influence on Dogen. He was the first to articulate silent illumination, commonly known as "just sitting." Although this meditation does not ultimately involve concentration on an object or stages of advancement, it is not without technique. In his Practice Instructions Hongzhi urges practitioners to "take the backward step and directly reach the middle of the circle from where light issues forth," and elsewhere to "turn within and drop off everything completely, and realization will occur." Hongzhi's meditation instructions describe, and evoke, the actual experience of enlightened, illuminating awareness. He wants each of us actually to experience for ourselves the vast empty shining field from which we have never been separate. "If you enact it in this way, how could it not be beneficial?" - from the introduction of Cultivating the Empty Field _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 09:37:49 2000 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBMFbnk08300 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:37:49 -0600 Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001222153731.OPQP9407.gigi.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:37:31 -0800 Message-ID: <7571297.977499451609.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:37:31 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I enjoy my lifelong path Between misty vines and rocky cave In the wilds there's room to spare And time to accompany clouds The road doesn't reach the world Only the mindless can climb I sit alone nights on a couch of stone And the round moon comes up Cold Mountain. - Han shan _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 09:43:40 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBMFhZk08418 for ; 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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:50:27 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218] claimed to be bucky.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001222155015.CGMR25756.bucky.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:50:15 -0800 Message-ID: <26866995.977500215079.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:50:15 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Like some pure clarity Distilled out of a jeweled mirror The spring waters fill the many lakes Reflect up into my eyes Here on Mt. Lu And the moon above my forehead Becomes a bright pearl. - Han Shan Te-ch'ing _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 09:55:02 2000 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBMFt2k08769 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:55:02 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191] claimed to be ewey.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001222155449.BZWT24504.ewey.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:54:49 -0800 Message-ID: <26214589.977500489741.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:54:49 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Seeking the Way Amid the deepest mountain paths, The retreat I find None other than My original abode - satori! - Dogen (1200-1253) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 09:56:37 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBMFuak08915 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:56:36 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001222155620.NYME11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:56:20 -0800 Message-ID: <24013668.977500580610.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:56:20 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: As the moon slips from behind a cloud and shines, so the master comes out from behind ignorance and shines. Swans rise and fly toward the sun. What magic! So do the pure conquer the armies of illusion and rise to fly. - Buddha in the Dhammapada _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 28 09:33:06 2000 Received: from bucky.excite.com (bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBSFX5K30396 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:33:06 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218] claimed to be bucky.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001228153228.HKFX25756.bucky.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:32:28 -0800 Message-ID: <11968648.978017548295.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:32:28 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma drop Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Meditating deeply... reach the depth of the source. Branching streams cannot compare to this source! Sitting alone in a great silence, even though the heavens turn and the earth is upset, you will not even wink. - Nyogen Senzaki _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 28 09:34:14 2000 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBSFYDK30443 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:34:13 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191] claimed to be ewey.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001228153356.HHEA24504.ewey.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:33:56 -0800 Message-ID: <23156983.978017636627.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:33:56 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Under the trees, among the rocks, a thatched hut: verses and sacred commentaries live there together. I'll burn the books I carry in my bag, but how can I forget the verses written in my gut? - Ikkyu _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 28 09:35:49 2000 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBSFZmK30542 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:35:49 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001228153533.SNDP11766.kuku.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:35:33 -0800 Message-ID: <27733540.978017733780.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:35:33 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Beyond a door I made but don't close, I glimpse strange birds flying past. For a piece of jade you can own a whole cliff, but gold won't buy a lifetime of freedom. The sound of ice falls on dawnlit snowy ridges, a mountain horizon through leafless autumn woods. Mist clears from ancient cedars and days last forever... right and wrong don't enter the clouds. - Stone _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Dec 28 09:41:10 2000 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id eBSFf9K30693 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:41:10 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from bernie.excite.com ([199.172.148.157]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001228154052.TJEE9490.fortune.excite.com@bernie.excite.com> for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:40:52 -0800 Message-ID: <26626309.978018052827.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:40:52 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by eckhart.stderr.org id eBSFf9K30693 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Before the first step is taken the goal is reached, before the tongue is moved the speech is finished, more than brilliant intuition is needed to find the origin of the right road. - Mu-mon (1228) ******************************************* Sitting on top of a boulder The gorge stream icy cold Quiet fun holds a special charm Fogged-in on deserted cliffs A fine place to rest The sun leans and tree shadows sprawl While I view the ground of my mind A lotus comes out of the mud. - Cold Mountain ************************************************** Whirled by the three passions, one's eyes go blind. Closed to the world of things, they see again. In this way I live; straw-hatted, staff in hand. I move illimitably, through earth, through heaven. - Ungo (1580–1659) ************************************** A special method of attaining heavenly victory: Being in harmony with all things. Life, death, length, and breadth, not a spark of discord. - Yamaoka Tesshu (1830) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 4 13:34:28 2001 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f04JYQD13679 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:34:27 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from prickles ([199.172.153.88]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010104150229.GUFA11766.kuku.excite.com@prickles> for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:02:29 -0800 Message-ID: <32436870.978620549694.JavaMail.imail@prickles> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:02:29 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Metta is to be extended towards all beings and all manifestations, yet most of our difficulties lie with people. It is much easier to love birds, dogs, cats and trees than it is to love people. Trees and animals don't answer back, but people do, so this is where our training commences....Sometimes people find they don't feel anything while practicing metta meditation. That is nothing to worry about; thoughts aimed often enough in the right directions eventually produce the feelings. All our sense contacts produce feelings. Thoughts are the sixth sense, and even if we are only thinking metta, eventually the feeling will arise. It is one means of helping us to gain this heart quality, but certainly not the only one. In our daily activities all of us are confronted with other people and often with those whom we would rather avoid. These are our challenges, lessons and tests. If we consider them in that manner we won't be so irritated by these experiences....When we realize that such a confrontation is exactly what we need at that moment in order to overcome resistance and negativity and subsitute metta for those emotions, then we will be grateful for the opportunity. _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 4 13:35:17 2001 Received: from claude.excite.com (claude-rwcmex.excite.com [199.172.148.188]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f04JZGD13747 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:35:17 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host claude-rwcmex.excite.com [199.172.148.188] claimed to be claude.excite.com Received: from prickles ([199.172.153.88]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010104145815.VHSB24504.ewey.excite.com@prickles> for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:58:15 -0800 Message-ID: <10744293.978620295892.JavaMail.imail@prickles> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:58:15 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Bhikkus (Monks), before my enlightenment, while I was still only an unenlightened Bodhisattva, I too, being myself subject to birth, sought what was also subject to birth; being myself subject to aging, sickness, death, sorrow, and defilement, I sought what was also subject to aging, sickness, death, sorrow, and defilement. Then I considered thus: 'Why, being myself subject to birth, do I seek what is also subject to birth? Why, being myself subject to aging, sickness, death, sorrow, and defilement, do I seek what is also subject to aging, sickness, death, sorrow, and defilement? Suppose that, being myself subject to birth, having understood the danger in what is subject to birth, I seek the unborn supreme security from bondage, Nibbana (Nirvana). Suppose that, being myself subject to aging, sickness, death, sorrow, and defilement, having understood the danger in what is subject to birth, I seek the unaging, unailing, deathless, sorrowless, and undefiled supreme victory from bondage, Nibbana.'" Ariyapariyesana Sutta, in The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Bhikkhu Bodhi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 4 13:35:19 2001 Received: from claude.excite.com (claude-rwcmex.excite.com [199.172.148.188]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f04JZID13750 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:35:19 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host claude-rwcmex.excite.com [199.172.148.188] claimed to be claude.excite.com Received: from prickles ([199.172.153.88]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010104150022.VYBD25756.bucky.excite.com@prickles> for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:00:22 -0800 Message-ID: <28588234.978620422919.JavaMail.imail@prickles> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:00:22 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: There is really no reason to kill our ordinary enemies; death will come to them naturally in the future anyway. Despite this fact there are some soldiers who engage in fearsome battles, willing to fight even though their enemies have superior weapons. They ignore the pains of battle and continue to fight until they are victorious. If there are people who are willing to expend such great effort in order to kill an ordinary enemy then why do we not strive unceasingly to destroy the worst enemy of all: the delusion that is the cause of all of our suffering? To overcome such a powerful foe we must certainly expect to expreience great hardships but is there any need to mention the absolute necessity of attacking this enemy diligently? Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Meaningful to Behold _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Jan 5 08:44:02 2001 Received: from fortune.excite.com (fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f05Ei0D19272 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:44:02 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host fortune-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.203] claimed to be fortune.excite.com Received: from seamore.excite.com ([199.172.148.163]) by fortune.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010105144338.PUWP9490.fortune.excite.com@seamore.excite.com> for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 06:43:38 -0800 Message-ID: <27531728.978705818275.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 06:43:38 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.195 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: It is noteworthy...that the story of Buddha's spiritual journey climaxes with his enlightenment but does not end there. Even as he was savoring the blissful state that followed his awakening, he was approached (in the traditional account) by a delegation of gods, who begged him to give up his private ecstasy so he could share his awakening with those who still suffered. This encounter and its outcome, however legendary, make the point that spiritual maturity includes the ability to actualize transcendent insight in daily life. The Buddha is said to have wandered across northern India for forty years, tirelessly teaching the dharma. His decision to arise from his seat under the Bo tree and go out into the world can be considered the first step of a socially engaged Buddhism. The Buddha's discourses, which had revolutionary force in the society of his time, include countless passages dealing with "this-worldly" topics such as politics, good government, poverty, crime, war, peace, and ecology. Kenneth Kraft, Inner Peace, World Peace -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jan 6 09:11:01 2001 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f06FB0D03174 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:11:01 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from roary.excite.com ([199.172.148.162]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010106151038.VTZY11766.kuku.excite.com@roary.excite.com>; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:10:38 -0800 Message-ID: <29227396.978793838103.JavaMail.imail@roary.excite.com> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:10:37 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, bryne@ntown.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.198 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Just as the water flows under the ground So those who seek it find it, Without thought, without end, Its effective power all-pervasive, Buddha Knowledge is also like this, Being in all creatures' minds; If any work on it with diligence, They will soon find the light of knowledge. The Flower Ornament Scripture, trans. by Thomas Cleary _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jan 9 09:25:01 2001 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f09FP0524287 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:25:01 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191] claimed to be ewey.excite.com Received: from puffer ([199.172.153.109]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010109152427.HKID6760.ewey.excite.com@puffer> for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:24:27 -0800 Message-ID: <11835607.979053867062.JavaMail.imail@puffer> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:24:27 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Those of us who start on the path to right livelihood find that our lives are more balanced, simple, clear, and focused. We are no longer strung out in a meaningless cycle of material consumptions. The contemporary economy focuses on this cycle of consumption. It doesn't really support our efforts to find meaningful work. Today, work is a means to consume or to pay debt for consumption already indulged in. How may people do you know who really love the work they are doing? How many feel bored and alienated? How many are simply earning the money to spend it on material pleasures? Right livelihood demands that you take responsibility for making your work more meaningful. Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Roger Pritchard, in Claude Whitmyer's Mindfulness and Meaningful Work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jan 9 09:25:46 2001 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f09FPj524355 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:25:45 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from puffer ([199.172.153.109]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010109152530.HOEQ26108.kuku.excite.com@puffer> for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:25:30 -0800 Message-ID: <10631656.979053930903.JavaMail.imail@puffer> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:25:30 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Those of us who start on the path to right livelihood find that our lives are more balanced, simple, clear, and focused. We are no longer strung out in a meaningless cycle of material consumptions. The contemporary economy focuses on this cycle of consumption. It doesn't really support our efforts to find meaningful work. Today, work is a means to consume or to pay debt for consumption already indulged in. How may people do you know who really love the work they are doing? How many feel bored and alienated? How many are simply earning the money to spend it on material pleasures? Right livelihood demands that you take responsibility for making your work more meaningful. Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Roger Pritchard, in Claude Whitmyer's Mindfulness and Meaningful Work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Tue Jan 9 09:33:52 2001 Received: from bucky.excite.com (bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f09FXq524489 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:33:52 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host bucky-rwcmex.excite.com [198.3.99.218] claimed to be bucky.excite.com Received: from puffer ([199.172.153.109]) by bucky.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010109153335.HJZV27811.bucky.excite.com@puffer> for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:33:35 -0800 Message-ID: <14885168.979054415188.JavaMail.imail@puffer> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:33:35 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] Dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: See everybody as the Buddha. When you are stuck in a traffic jam on the Los Angeles freeway, can you look at all the other drivers, particularly the ones who are weaving in and out of lanes, and see them as the Buddha? In a work situtation, if you have a particularly cantankerous boss who you think is a complete idiot, can you look at that person as the Buddha? As a manager, can you see the person who is working for you as the Buddha? Gerry Shishin Wick Sensei, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vol. V, #4 _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 11 09:09:27 2001 Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with ESMTP id f0BF9Rr30029 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:09:27 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: eckhart.stderr.org: Host kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63] claimed to be kuku.excite.com Received: from puffer ([199.172.153.109]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010111150902.YPOS26108.kuku.excite.com@puffer> for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:09:02 -0800 Message-ID: <10421853.979225742323.JavaMail.imail@puffer> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:09:02 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] whole mess of dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Don't tell me how difficult the Way. The bird's path, winding far, is right before you. Water of the Dokei Gorge, you return to the ocean, I to the mountain. - Hofuku Seikatsu ************************************************* As to the roaming of sages, They move in utter emptiness, Let their minds meander in the great nothingness; They run beyond convention And go through where there is no gateway. They listen to the soundless And look at the formless, They are not constrained by society And not bound to its customs. - Lao-tze ************************************************************ My primordial nature has no liking for the life in the cities. To be free from the noise I built a little thatched cottage far away in the depth of the mountains. Wandering here and there I carry no thought. When spring comes I watch the birds; in summer I bathe in the running stream; in autumn I climb the highest peaks; during the winter I am warming up in the sun. Thus I enjoy the real flavor of the seasons. - Shih t'ao (1641-1717) ******************************************************* Let the sun and the moon revolve by themselves! When I have time I read the sutras, when I am tired I sleep on my straw bed. The meaning of the teaching is profound and vast like the ocean. When I reveal it in my brush-work, its merits are limitless. Should I explain this secret teaching to you the solid mountain, I am afraid, would blow away. - Shih t'ao (1641-1717) ********************************************** South and north, sharing a single mountain gate, above and below, two temples both named T'ien-chu. Dwelling therein is an old dharma master, built tall and skinny like stork or swan. I do not know what practice he engages in, but his green eyes reflect the mountain valleys. Just looking into them makes one feel fresh and pure, as if all one's baneful vexations had been cleansed. - Su Shih (1073) ********************************************************* One minute of sitting, one inch of Buddha. Like lightning all thoughts come and pass. Just once look into your mind-depths: Nothing else has ever been. - Manzan (1649-1709) ****************************************************** Disciples as numerous as grains of sand in the River Ganges, not one has gained enlightenment; they err in seeking it as a path taught by others. To eliminate form and eradicate its traces, make utmost effort and strive diligently to walk in nothingness. - Tung-shan Liang-chieh (807-869) _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 18 09:05:37 2001 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.2/8.11.2/Debian 8.11.2-1) with ESMTP id f0IF5b423760 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:05:37 -0600 Received: from roary.excite.com ([199.172.148.162]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010118150525.GKHX13981.gigi.excite.com@roary.excite.com> for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:05:25 -0800 Message-ID: <7795868.979830325475.JavaMail.imail@roary.excite.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:05:25 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: There is a sign outside a casino in Las Vegas that says, "You must be present to win." The same is true in meditation. If we want to see the nature of our lives, we must actually be present, aware, awake. Developing samadhi [concentration] is much like polishing a lens. If we are looking to see the cells and workings of the body with a lens that has not been ground sufficiently, we will not see clearly. In order to penetrate the nature of the mind and body, we must collect and concentrate our resources and observe with a steady, silent mind. This is exactly what the Buddha did: he sat, concentrated his mind, and looked withing. To become a yogi, an explorer of the heart and mind, we must develop this capacity as well. Jack Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Thu Jan 18 09:10:36 2001 Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.2/8.11.2/Debian 8.11.2-1) with ESMTP id f0IFAZ423850 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:10:35 -0600 Received: from roary.excite.com ([199.172.148.162]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010118151024.GLHL13981.gigi.excite.com@roary.excite.com>; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:10:24 -0800 Message-ID: <31414391.979830624719.JavaMail.imail@roary.excite.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org, banber@msn.com, hcgehres@yahoo.com, bryne@ntown.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.111.19.197 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: to subscribe to dailydharma listserve, go to: http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dailydharma ********************************************************* With regard to the Four Noble Truths we have four functions to perform: The First Noble Truth is Dukkha, the nature of life, its suffering, its sorrows and joys, its imperfection and unsatisfactoriness, its impermanence and insubstantiality. With regard to this, our function is to understand it as a fact, clearly and completely. The Second Noble Truth is the Origin of Dukkha, which is desire, "thirst," accompanied by all other passions, defilements and impurities. A mere understanding of this fact is not sufficient. Here our function is to discard it, to eliminate, to destroy and eradicate it. The Third Noble Truth is the Cessation of Dukkha, Nirvana, the Absolute Truth, the Ultimate Reality. Here our function is to realize it. The Fourth Noble Truth is the Path leading to the realization of Nirvana. A mere knowledge of the Path, however complete, will not do. In this case, our function is to follow it and keep to it. Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Sat Jan 20 11:50:56 2001 Received: from ewey.excite.com (ewey-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.191]) by eckhart.stderr.org (8.11.2/8.11.2/Debian 8.11.2-1) with ESMTP id f0KHot400663 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:50:56 -0600 Received: from roary.excite.com ([199.172.148.162]) by ewey.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010120175028.DJBQ9944.ewey.excite.com@roary.excite.com> for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:50:28 -0800 Message-ID: <26896245.980013028837.JavaMail.imail@roary.excite.com> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 09:50:28 -0800 (PST) From: ike Reply-To: To: dailydharma@eckhart.stderr.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 216.126.174.84 Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma quote Sender: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org Errors-To: dailydharma-admin@stderr.org X-BeenThere: dailydharma@stderr.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: The Daily Dharma List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: The artist's dilemma and the meditator's are, in a deep sense, equivalent. Both are repeatedly willing to confront an unknown and to risk a response that they cannot predict or control. Both are disciplined in skills that allow them to remain focused on their task and to express their response in a way that will illuminate the dilemma they share with others. And both are liable to similar outcomes.