Samstag, 7. Januar 2017

24.06.2019 - Sekito and Zen and Buddhist teacher and author etc...


diary of dali48: 15.06.2019 - J. W. van de Wetering and Buddhists and... https://dali48.blogspot.com/2017/01/january-25-2017-jw-de-wetering3-and.html?spref=tw … see dali48 on Twitter,Google,Blogspot,http://Bod.de,FB,Pinterest,StumbleUpon
dali48 and studying and teaching and photographing in Tübingen etc...



21.08.1997 - Interpretation of dali48

The student of Zen requires something really concrete, personal, individual - something which he can claim as his own, something that gives him inner satisfaction, something which is not added from the outside - but grows from within - something that you can always carry with you, since it always accompanies your own shadow, which you can not throw away, even if you would like it! - But this can not be anything but your own self ...
Spirit = human consciousness = a kind of universal mind, a transcendence, the highest principle from which the universe emerges with all its manifold movements! - The two concepts of spirit (hsin) and nature (hsing) are interchangeable ...
Neither word nor action - have anything to do with Zen ...
If not tense, no awakening - if not cornered, no breakthrough ...
The Zen faith is not a faith in the ordinary sense - since there is neither a subject nor an object in it. In Zen, faith is always creative! - Through him we live a new life at every moment! - There is nothing old, repeated in the world of Zen! - Consequently, Zen is not dominated by empty concepts, abstractions and generalizations ...
Be sure in your daily dealings with the external world - that these two characteristics, birth and death, are firmly imprinted on the tip of your nose to remind you that all things are perishable - and subject to everlasting change ...
But if you stand still and think - whether you shall believe or not believe, move forward or retreat - then you will never reach anything ... (Sekito, 700 - 790)

Shítóu Xīqiān (700-790) was an 8th-century Chinese Chán (Zen) Buddhist teacher and author. ... There is a mummy at Mt. Sekito Temple in Japan which is said to be Shítóu's. Various Japanese sources state that this mummy was rescued by a ...
Biography · ‎Life · ‎Physical remains · ‎Influence


05.10.2015 - Autoreninterview.doc -  see dali48 on Google,Blogspot,Bod.de,StumbleUpon,Pinterest,Twitter,Goodreads...



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diary of dali48: 08.10.2018 - Ecology and Environment and Interaction... http://dali48.blogspot.com/2018/10/08102018-ecology-and-environment-and.html?spref=tw … see dali48 on Twitter,Google,Blogspot,http://Bod.de,FB,Pinterest,StumbleUpon dali48 and writing books and cycling and photographing etc...

see dali48 and warning of neo-fascism since 1989 and Climate Change since ca. 2000 and "Banking Crisis" 2008 and poor people and social diseases and speculation and homelessness and robots etc. - instead of UBI & Ecology - Uncontrolled capitalism produces evil as bees produce...

see dali48 and Climate Change and heat waves and dryness and burning and also floods and Hurricanes etc. - since ca. 2000 and despite Copenhagen 2009 etc. - instead of #ZeroHunger, solar & wind energy & UBI etc...



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