PART ONE TEACHING AND PRACTICE I Yasutani-roshi's Introductory Lectures on Zen Training Editor's Introduction Westerners eager to practice Zen yet lacking access to a qualified master have always faced an imposing handicap: the dearth of written information on what zazen is and how to begin and...
“We can practice bringing happiness to ourselves. It’s like putting money in the bank. 【3】”A key step toward happiness is learning how to describe emotions, even negative ones. Feeling blue 【4】 Ask yourself: “What do I feel Where in my body am I feeling it Does it have a ...
One evening a few months ago, my wife and I went out to dinner with a couple of friends. I ordered Shepherd’s Pie, one of my favorite comfort foods. “There you go,” our server chirped, as she handed me an oversized plate, heaped high with ground beef, onions, mashed potatoes, ...
“I can practice English in my head,” he said, not ___. His mother smiled. “We share our stories aloud with others, not in our heads where ___ can hear them.” Jatto nodded. He’d learned about that in school. She decided to tell him a story and handed him some nuts and mi...
My one handed conclusion is that it’s better to pay more attention to bananas and less attention to human self-destruction. * Here’s where I always quote Feynman’s response:“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” ** I’...
Even now, in the short time she had been in the nursery, the English governess and Matrona Philimonovna had succeeded in putting several questions to her, which did not admit of delay, and which only she could answer: "What were the children to put on for their walk? Should they have...
Putting his hand in his pocket as the other scratched the back of his head. "And if I'm going to be the king of the world, my bounty would at least be above all of the emperors!" Imagining how large of a bounty that would be, Solomon stacked the zeros at the end of his bounty...
or destroy us. This is the message we’ve been receiving for a millennia about the health of our Mother Earth, and all of her children. Although generations have come and gone, their actions have lived well beyond them. Each generation is handed the inheritance of those who came ...
Helene handed A the iPad. As if that wasn’t enough, she patiently sat next to A and watched him take a turn on the game she played. And, as if THAT wasn’t enough, when A finished with it, he handed it back to Helene, said thank you, and Helene responded, “You’re welcome!
Helton, one hapless, inebriated fellow was convicted of DUI for merely putting his keys in the ignition to roll up his car windows--after he had gone to retrieve his vodka from the car.Note to self: appoint a designated sober window operator.So what about Officer Mata, was he in control...