Posted in goals vs no goals, your true nature on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Hui-neng (638-713), asked “Without making good or bad in that moment, what is your original face before your parents were born?”
He is asking us what is our original face before any ideas, images, feelings that you have been carrying like so much baggage.
When we look into this question, which means to actually ask yourself “What [...]
Posted in goals vs no goals, meditation basics, meditation practice on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
This issue: to sit or not to sit?
Merely stating this issue brings up a legion of other issues, many of which go unchallenged and unrecognized in the awareness of a potential meditator. To tackle one issue inevitably begs other, lateral questions.
As an instructor, I am somewhat aware of the dynamics involved in teaching. If an [...]
Posted in goals vs no goals on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
At the beginning and through the initial stages of our practice the goal of practice, and by this I mean activities such as sitting meditation practice, is to discover and gradually establish a condition of ease in body and mind.
As we progress on the path, though, goals actually become an obstacle. This is what Nan-yueh [...]
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