The Mu Koan (or Wu Gongan in Chinese pronunciation), in which master Joshu says “Mu” (literally “No,” butimplying Nothingness) to an anonymous monk's question of whether a dog has the Buddha-nature, is surely the single most famous expression in Zen Buddhist literature and practice. W...
That is the sense of the quotation by British-born Buddhist scholar Alan Watts with which I began this essay. I will defend a narrowed, more nuanced view: namely that any complex system, as defined below, has the basic attributes of mind and has a minimal amount of consciousness in the ...
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Mindfulness can help us to step out of our conditioning and see things anew—to see a rose as it is. DefinitionS of MinDfulneSS The term mindfulness is an English translation of the Pali word sati. Pali was the language of Buddhist psychology 2,500 years ago, and mind fulness is the...
- Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, Mahayana Buddhist scripture, circa 100 A.D. These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and ...
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Unlike HRM, Kundalini is a form of upward meditation, which focuses on the rising stream of energy.This form of meditation has roots in both Buddhist and Hindu teachings, and in Sanskrit translates to‘coiled’. Many believe this to be a metaphoric form of mediation, however, those who are...
Practicing mindfulness takes you out of autopilot mode, enabling you to make decisions and take actions based on the current moment. Instead of reacting out of your habitual patterns of behavior, emotional responses, belief systems, and unresolved traumas, you respond to your environment from a pl...
From Alan Watts: Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern Western thought. It is not religion or philosophy; it is not a psychology or a type of science. [1] From Robert Linssen: Buddhism in general and Zen in pa...