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Hello All,
I am moving my posts to my alternative Yahoo Profile ID harveyhilbert and you will find me there.
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Be well.
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - 08:58am (MDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for March 10, 2009
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Hello All,
I am moving my posts to my alternative Yahoo 360 site "Monk" Search for Harvey Hilbert and you will find me there.
Alternatively, I post on Zen Living at YahooGroups.com; Facebook; Hotmail groups (Zen Living) and Google Groups (Zen Living).
Be well.
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - 08:58am (MDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for February 11, 2009
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With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,
Zen is so peculiar.
Its like the sword brandished by Manjushri
cutting through delusion,
but also like Kannon who embraces us as we fall.
To practice Zen is to practice without meaning.
There is the Buddha, kill him!
There is the Buddha, embrace him!
When is Zen not peculiar? When we live directly, authentically, and don't call it Zen.
When we see a rose and really see the rose itself.
When we meet a person and see that person for himself, as he is.
But also, when the alarm rings we get up.
When its time to eat, we eat.
When we have a problem to address, we address it.
Each moment an invitation to open.
Each moment an opportunity to undress.
As the kabbalists say, 'rung upon rung!'
Going nowhere we are not already.
Be well.Wednesday February 11, 2009 - 07:14am (MST) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - Entry for February 10, 2009
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With palms together,Good Morning Everyone,We sat last night, a small group, in a very large sanctuary, bringing light into the world. I say this because we don't sit zazen for ourselves, but for all beings. As we open our eyes we see for all beings, as we take a step, we step for all beings, as we bow to our cushions, we bow for all beings. The entire universe sat in that small sanctuary last night.Attaining this mind means some very important things. As we are one, we are all. Every action is a reflection of this oneness. To think, "I alone am responsible" is always incorrect. There is never a moment when we are alone and solely responsible. Our fathers and mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, generations of generations are with us here and now in our genes, our breath, our very touch. So too our friends and enemies, our coaches and critics: generations of generations, here, now, in this breath. How can we ever be alone?To take a step is auspicious. Therefore, be mindfull where and how you place your foot.Be well.Tuesday February 10, 2009 - 10:35am (MST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
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With palms together,Good Morning Everyone,The morning sun has already risen over the mountains and its glaring light is blasting through our windows. Then, in the blink, cool shade. It is going to be a cloudy day here.Or a sunny day. It depends on when your eyes are open.Life is like that.If our eyes are closed our world is self constructed in darkness. Imagination takes us to places unreal, chimera.If our eyes are open and we do not see clearly, its something else again. We see our own creation, assign meaning to it, attach to it and suffer through it.If our eyes are open and we see clearly, our reality is as it is...or as Suzuki-roshi was fond of saying, we see "things as it is". In this "state" (which is no state at all), A bird is a bird and a dog is a dog. No problem.As the kabbalists say, though, come and see...We say a dog is a dog and a bird is a bird. We say on the one hand they are the same, buddha nature, empty, and so on. Yet there they are, one barks and runs, the other flies and sings, different.But birds bark and dogs sing, dogs fly and birds run. The same. How do birds run and bark as dogs fly and sing? Look deeply.When we use our own words and phrases, big problem. Look deeply, get inside the oneness of life. There resides the answer.Be well.Monday February 9, 2009 - 11:06am (MST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
