Loading ...There’s a well worn story about a Zen Master by the name of Banzan, who was walking past a butcher’s shop. I guess in those days they were in markets and fairly open. He overheard a customer talking to the butcher. “Can I have your best piece of meat?” the customer asked. “But all my pieces of meat are the best. You won’t find any piece of meat in my shop that is not the best,” replied the butcher. At which Banzan was enlightened. Read the rest of this entry »
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I like the story of Hercules in Sagittarius; it is the story of the Stymphalian birds. The birds had migrated to Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia to escape a pack of wolves. in 1987 Swiss ornithologist Michael Desfayes suggested that they may actually have been based upon a real (and harmless) bird, the bald ibis, now restricted in Europe to a single locality in Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »
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Who seeks me by form,
Who seeks me by sound,
Perverted are his footsteps on the way;
For he cannot perceive the Tathagata.
The Diamond Sutra, The Buddha
There are a number of products out there that claim to work on the brain to produce deepened meditation or enlightenment. One came in my mailbox yesterday claiming Discover how to meditate deeper than a zen monk in just five minutes – without years of practice, or hours of boring meditation CDs – by using a secret shortcut you can’t find anywhere else.
How do they promise to achieve this? Through sound. Read the rest of this entry »
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