Guest guest Posted June 13, 2001 Report Share Posted June 13, 2001 Dear Joyce, Thank you for Padmasambhava's Pieces of the cake Love, Wim > Your own awareness right now is just this! > It being just this uncontrived natural clarity, > As there is nothing to meditate upon, > In just this uninterrupted clarity intelligence, > Since the thinker in the mind is just it, > Since there is nothing to be done. > As it is sufficient to stay uncontrived. > As it is sufficient to be content with inaction. > Since clear, aware, and void are automatically indivisible. > Since it is natural, spontaneous, free of cause and condition. > Since thought and natural liberation are simultaneous. > Since your very intelligence is just this. > The clear brilliance of self-aware now -consciousness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 That's right - and let's not even get started on the topic of American Buddhism or Western Buddhism, one of the favoritee topics in Tricycle Magazine! At 12:29 PM 6/14/01 -0400, Joyce Short wrote: >Hi Greg, How heartening to read your post. A friend just wrote in some >humorous despair over some sectarianism he had recently encountered in >Buddhism...friend asked.."Joyce, do you take refuge in Thera Buddha, Zen >Buddha, Dzogchen Buddha?" laugh! Joyce > >> Joyce/Alton, >> >> Many people find this is a fruitful idea indeed. Here in NYC there are >> several groups of people exploring Eastern pathways from within the >> cultural/social/religious context of their own native tradition. There are >> Catholic Zen students, Jewish Vipassana Buddhists, and Jewish Hindus. >> >> Love, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 That's right - and let's not even get started on the topic of American Buddhism or Western Buddhism, one of the favoritee topics in Tricycle Magazine! laugh! and we could have 'Texas' Buddhism and "Iowa" Buddhism or Alaskan Buddhims for those who like to fish and I'll start a Buddhism in Ontario cobbling together all those practices I find most appealing and pleasant (especially removing all references to 'suffering'-greed, hatred and delusion that people find so hard to take). There is no end to the possibilities. Actually, the new Buddhisms are 'personage Buddhism' where you get to be a 'personage'. Think of the possibilities for costume design -luscious robes and New Age Thrones -mind boggles. Its a bit like P.E. degree requirements for jocks -can't pass Math? OK-we'll just drop that and put in something you can do -weaving baskets or something. Then you have a degree but it might not be worth much. Lama Joyce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 Costume design! Show biz! Now that is funny, but it's not so out of this world! A friend of mind and I have done something very much like this for neo-advaita satsangs in NYC. Teachers would come in a need lots of help. They would ask for what amounts to this: They need an audience, a room and stage, the props, a marketing niche, an approach, a logo, advertising campaign, the audio, etc. Sometimes they even ask for lines and the "back story" about the folks attending! We would "produce" the whole thing, just like vaudeville! Then the teacher puts all this together, digests and metabolizes it. And at satsang time, to the unobservant eye, it comes out looking like Their Presence caused it all to roll effortlessly from Consciousness Itself. Show biz! In high school I was in musical theater, and during college, I worked at Disneyland and at a theater chain in the Los Angeles area. --Swami GG-ji At 01:57 PM 6/14/01 -0400, Joyce Short wrote: >>>> That's right - and let's not even get started on the topic of American Buddhism or Western Buddhism, one of the favoritee topics in Tricycle Magazine! laugh! and we could have 'Texas' Buddhism and "Iowa" Buddhism or Alaskan Buddhims for those who like to fish and I'll start a Buddhism in Ontario cobbling together all those practices I find most appealing and pleasant (especially removing all references to 'suffering'-greed, hatred and delusion that people find so hard to take). There is no end to the possibilities. Actually, the new Buddhisms are 'personage Buddhism' where you get to be a 'personage'. Think of the possibilities for costume design -luscious robes and New Age Thrones -mind boggles. Its a bit like P.E. degree requirements for jocks -can't pass Math? OK-we'll just drop that and put in something you can do -weaving baskets or something. Then you have a degree but it might not be worth much. Lama Joyce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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