From ekp@excite.com Wed Dec 13 15:28:07 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:28:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <307379.976721287766.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 14:37:42 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:37:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <32165148.976718262662.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 14:52:36 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 06:52:36 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <29988239.976719156709.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:23:58 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:23:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <33284500.976721038113.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:24:38 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:24:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <9469132.976721078154.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:33:39 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:33:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma listserve Message-ID: <3164904.976721619512.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:24:02 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <31041044.976807442343.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> > > > 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 15:24:48 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:24:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <12950469.976807488147.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:26:18 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:26:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <15216959.976807578880.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:07:04 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:07:04 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dailydharma Message-ID: <18058208.976892824326.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:21:46 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:21:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma Message-ID: <1807179.976807306833.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 14:44:41 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:44:41 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <14114321.977323481068.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> "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 14:56:13 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <5394521.977324173214.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> "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 14:56:55 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:56:55 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] Daily Dharma Message-ID: <23773009.977324215168.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> "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 15:35:49 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:35:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <24688716.977499349408.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:37:31 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:37:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] daily dharma Message-ID: <7571297.977499451609.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:43:24 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:43:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <18957118.977499804671.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Today I sat before the cliffs Sat until the mist drew off A rambling clear stream shore A towering green ridge crest Cloud's dawn shadows still Moon’s night light adrift Body free of dust Mind without a care. - Han shan _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 15:48:33 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:48:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <24576703.977500113814.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> Sitting in the monastery, No-minded, like the moon in water, Making ten thousand exercises, Traceless, like illusory flowers. - Anonymous _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ From ekp@excite.com Fri Dec 22 15:50:15 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:50:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <26866995.977500215079.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:54:49 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:54:49 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <26214589.977500489741.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:56:20 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:56:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <24013668.977500580610.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:32:28 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:32:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma drop Message-ID: <11968648.978017548295.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:33:56 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:33:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <23156983.978017636627.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:35:33 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:35:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <27733540.978017733780.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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 15:40:52 2000 From: ekp@excite.com (ike) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:40:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dailydharma] dharma Message-ID: <26626309.978018052827.JavaMail.imail@bernie.excite.com> 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/