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Meditation Timers

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Zencast.Org provide a few meditation timers. I’ve modified their 60 minute one and created one for 80 minutes. I hope you enjoy it.

To keep our mind free from defilement under all circumstances is called ‘Idea-lessness’. Our mind should stand aloof from circumstances, and on no account should we allow them to influence the function of our mind. But it is a great mistake to suppress our mind from all thinking; for even if we succeed in getting rid of all thoughts, and die immediately thereafter, still we shall be reincarnated elsewhere. – Hui Neng

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Respect

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Don’t you walk through my words.
You got to show some respect.
Don’t you walk through my words,
Cause you ain’t heard me out yet.

-10CC

According to Wikipedia: Respect is an assumption of good faith and competence in another person or in the whole of oneself. Depth of integrity, trust, complementary moral values, and skill are necessary components.

And yet being treated with disrepect can be a painful experience.

When Fa Da failed to pay his respects to Hui Neng, here’s what Hui Neng had to say.

Since the object of ceremony is to curb arrogance
Why did you fail to lower your head to the ground?
‘To believe in a self’ is the source of sin,
But ‘to treat all attainment as void’ attains merit incomparable!

When we treat our attainment as void there really is no disrespect is there, which I’m sure was Hui Neng’s basis for the discussion, so he didn’t experience disrespect what he saw instead was the next step for his disciple, the curbing of arrogance.

When experiencing disrespect to focus on compassion towards the other changes everything. In my experience. Illusion falls like shells from our eyes and we stand in the present moment.

Just a thought.

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Lessons from the Sopranos

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Everyday I practise letting go using a forgiveness meditation followed by Metta. It comes from the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. I’ve probably mentioned this before.

Anyway, the Sopranos are a very interesting lesson in not letting go, in not forgiving. It’s curious all the stuff you keep finding that you haven’t let go of.

I was reading some paper I found online the other day which mentioned that Hui Neng’s initial stanza, you know the there is no bodhi tree nor stand of a mirror bright one. The author suggested that the I wipe my mind hour by hour was necessary to establish Hui Neng’s response.

I agree. I haven’t yet established emptiness. So there is a wiping required.

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