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| Zen Thoughts 13 - The open mind |
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| The “open mind” is one of the characteristics of Zen Heart. It contains acceptance, forgiveness and patience.
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| Zen thoughts 15 - About the “key step” |
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| During our walking meditation, our concentration is on each step in the process: lifting-moving-falling, there’s not necessarily any logical thinking ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 22 - The Nature of nature |
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| Human beings live with nature and our living is based on nature so we should be careful and think it over when we say “we can transcend nature”. We s ... |
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| Zen thoughts 26 - Where’s your mind? |
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| In the year 527, a monk from India named Bodhidharma followed his master’s advice to come to China to spread what he had learned through enlightenmen ... |
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| Zen thoughts 27 - Just look |
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| In late Tang Dynasty (nearly more than 1000 years ago), there’s a well-known Zen (in Chinese called Chan) Master CongShen. He lived in ZhaoZhou (Zhao ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 29 - The Five Powers |
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| Faith: When we have faith in something, there will be a firmer and more stable mind to keep doing it. So if we trust in the way we practice, we would ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 37 - Living in Zen moment |
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| Life consists of all kinds of activities, and each activity consists of plenty of different moments. So, how can life be dependent on how each moment ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 43 - Step out of snares |
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| There’s a Chinese saying: “To get enmeshed in a cocoon of one’s own spinning.” The silkworm will experience its process of rebirth in spinning. It is ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 46 - True or false |
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| As I remember my younger days at school, we always met “true or false” questions in examinations. Sometimes it was so hard to tick a choice and simpl ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 49 - Dancer of life |
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| Life is like a dancing performance. On the stage, every dancer has a role. You might be a solo dancer or there’s a partner. With varied melody, you e ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 52 - A piece of cloud |
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| A small cloud is floating in the sky, it has been in space for a long long time ago, nobody knows where it comes from, it even don’t know when and wh ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 53 - Dragon boat |
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| The dragon boats are coming with drums and whistles! When we are looking at the race of dragon boats, don’t forget we are on the dragon boat too; we ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 60 - Don’t be surprised |
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| There’s a story about the childhood of a Japanese Zen monk Ikkyu. One day the old master went out, another child monk broke the vase which the old ma ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 61 - Everyday vacation |
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| During this season, many friends are on vacation, some of them go to the sea shore, some of them move into the mountains, and some others go back to ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 62 - Unified mind |
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| From the very non-beginning, our mind is split into pieces, which can be called “false mind”. But the “real mind” has always been intact. When the fa ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 63 - The steps of life |
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| Before we feel cool enough, the autumn has arrived silently. According to Chinese lunar calendar, August 7th is the beginning of autumn, which is cal ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 64 - Welcome home |
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| The homeless body Everyday we move this body to go here and there, to do this and that, we even don’t want to slow down, until the weariness forces t ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 65 - Beyond desire |
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| Desire reflects our needs to other people, to things and nature. In our life, most of our satisfactions must be relied on through others. Buddha’s te ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 67 - Neither…nor… |
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| When the wick is coated with wax, we call it candle. Only when the candle is burnt up, does it start its real life! And since it has started its livi ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 70 - Live as a whole |
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| When somebody greets us with “how are you?”, we always answer right away “fine, thank you.” It seems “fine, thank you.” should always be after “how a ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 71 - The crop of life |
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| Just came back from my wife’s hometown, a small village in mid-south of China. We made many friends not only with a few farmers but also with many ve ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 73 - The One Mind |
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Everybody has a different world, for we have different “mind mirrors” to reflect reality. Each mirror of ours has irregular facets in varied ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 78 - Open |
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Open means a continuous broadness. To contain everything except nothing. The good is not so “good”, the bad is not really “bad”. Let neither ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 81 - Science of freedom |
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| The Zen is nothing mysterious, and a real Zen practitioner never expects the marvels. It is why sometimes it is called the “Science of freedom ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 84 - Spring is blooming |
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| The Chinese spring festival is always in the coldest days, the solar term Li-Chun (stand-up of spring) can remind us that the spring is coming ... |
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| Zen Thoughts 85 - No problem |
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| Zen is a problem solver, but from the inside. When you are eager to get rid of the problem from outside, you are cultivating more than that. I ... |
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