Dienstag, 31. Januar 2017

09.07.2019 - Ama Samy and zen and mystery and searching etc...



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14.11.1997 - Interpretation of dali48

Usually people consider the "experience of God" as an ecstasy, a vision - Visions and extents are secondary. What is really important - and I believe most will make such an experience - is the experience of a deeper dimension of life, of reality - that there is something like an invisible dimension in life - In Christian tradition one speaks of mystery...
Let greed, hatred and illusions fall, then you are reality itself! - Emptiness is fullness! - It is nice and stimulating to talk about the meaning, the value, the beauty and what else, of "Zen" - Then you want to "Christianize" Zen and tame it for your own purposes and that of your church...
It is about the same as with the first enthusiasm of the apostles for the Messiah - But then, when "Zen" calls on people to let go and renounce, to die and to empty yourself, one feels deceived - and withdraws: "Oh - not Zen pure!"...
The "Zen journey" begins with research or searching - we are looking for something when we have lost something - or need something, when we are in alienation, grief, and lostness - Thus the first picture represents the course of the religious journey: lostness, alienation and suffering - faith and hope, seeking, longing, researching, questioning...
Greed and desire are the hidden sources - of faith and hope...
Among well-being are:
Physical health, sense of belonging, security, affection, emotional fulfillment, pleasure, power, intellectual and moral health and fulfillment. Salvation has to do with looking for "God", and looking for the meaning of life...
This includes the confrontation with suffering and death, darkness and evil, freedom and loneliness, with the dark unpredictable mystery of life - and the boundaries of life and reality, with the boundaries of happiness and success, of morality, truth and being...
Salvation often entails loss and sacrifice - and need not lead man to satisfaction or equanimity... (Ama Samy)

Ama Samy (Arul Maria Arokiasamy), S.J., born in 1936, is an Indian Zen master and Jesuit priest. Contents. 1 Biography; 2 Dharma Successors; 3 Books; 4 See ...
Teacher‎: ‎Yamada Koun
School‎: ‎Bodhi Sangha
Lineage‎: ‎Harada-Yasutani
Religion‎: ‎Zen Buddhism‎, ‎Christianity
Biography · ‎Dharma Successors · ‎Books



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31.01.2017 - Dogen3 and the goal of Zen etc...




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13.11.1997 - Interpretation of dali48

To kill or oppress all desires and ideas is not the aim of Zen - Now it is a desire without desire, a desire which is not directed at any particular object - but is opened to the transcendental mystery...

The realization of the mystery is the ultimate reason and the source of our detachment and freedom, but immediately it is the letting be and the integration of our oppressed, hidden aspect of the shadow - It is to "let yourself be like you are" - and also to let the "other person be like it is"...

"God" is not found by searching - and is never found by those who do not seek... (Sufi saying)

Consider the body as transient, as an abscess, a poisonous tooth, a source of pain - And the same is said of feeling, of perception, of activities, and consciousness - Passionlessness has the purpose of getting liberation...

"Emptiness" - can be described as a mystery in the Christian language...

That the "self" becomes evident, and confirms the myriad of things, is called blindness - That the myriad of things become evident and confirm the "self" is "enlightenment"... (Dogen)

The "Zen Experience" opens the heart and the spirit for the bottom of life - for the realization of "Nirvana" in the middle of "Samsara", and from Samsara as Nivana...

There are plenty of "koans" and Zen stories - which are dealing with violence, vulnerability, filth, "shit" and death...

It is only in conjunction with and in the integration of the "shadow" - evil, death, mortality and vulnerability that man is truly realized - "Zen enlightenment" and its deepening should normally lead to such an integration...

"Enlightenment" in Zen is the experience of emptiness (mystery) - and "non-duality"... (Dogen)


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