Looking Deeply
This morning is an excerpt from a Dharma talk, given by Thich Nhat Hanh. Within, he discusses during the 5 minute clip, Nirvana as the removal of wrong views. Beautiful is beautiful.
With Warm Heart,
Jaye Seiho Morris, Curator
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posted by jayeZERO @ 7:22 AM
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Thank you, Seiho! I'll link to this from our sangha blogsite.
Coincidentally today's post on 108zb is a quote by Thay.
gassho,
Genju
As ever, we are in harmony. If it keeps goin like this, people may start to talk. LOL.
With Gassho,
~Seiho
Ooooo... then they would twitter and tumblr and digg and stumble about us!
For whatever the reason today, you blog page colors feel very soothing. Thank you.
Genju
I didn't check in yesterday, so I am seeing both yesterday's and today's posts together, and they fit so well.
The past 1-1/2 years have been really hard for me. I refused to sit for much of that time, and my "views" got to stinking pretty good. Suffering up, up, up! I knew better, too. So, awhile back I decided that would change, and I even started a sitting group at my house because I know the one thing that will keep me on the cushion is the thought of sitting with others knowing I'm not practicing regularly. It was an act of enormous compassion for myself. Because of my particular conditions, it has been very, very hard. And a huge part of it has been re-learning that the thought that I am alone is just that - a thought, a wrong view that is so destructive.
I have been without a sangha for a long time. I didn't think it was by choice, so I resented it, and outwardly, I really didn't have options for being part of a sangha. But inside, now I realize it was my choice, because I couldn't see the sangha that was already around me that didn't fit my idea, my view of what it should look like, because it wasn't 'Buddhist.'
I still want to be part of a Buddhist sangha, and a teacher that speaks English and is accessible would be nice. But ultimately, these are outward conditions, and we can't wait till we have all these things just right. I had to start sitting every day again to see it. I had to give up some of my views, too. It isn't easy, is it? No, suffering is easier by far, but it's a lousy alternative.
Many bows, Seiho, for your encouragement and these offerings, Cheri
Cheri,
I must thank you for your deeply moving and intimate sharing of yourself. Being open... honest... vulnerable... to ourselves and others can and is disconcerting... yet so authentic, valuable and necessary, to be one more step in our path of growth. Though we are "Never, not Buddha," I have to admit that there are times that I decided to take the long way home. What an adventure.
Forever True Dharma Continue,
~Seiho
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