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Re: E-Zendo Revamped: BuddhaRocks.org

annsar...@verizon.net (Ann Brink) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:41:08 UT

I tried to go there and it made my computer hang up, said "error on page" and I couldn't close the page.
Too bad.
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Greetings

Revamped: BuddhaRocks.org

buddharoc...@gmail.com (Buddha Rocks) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:57:50 UT

Greetings
Glad to announce we have accomplished most of the intended revamping of *
BuddhaRocks.org* ([link]) in order to serve
the Buddhist community better.
In a nutshell, BuddhaRocks.org provides *Buddhist & Spiritual News, Blogs,
Tweets, Video updated on 24/7/365 *basis, as well as other media including

Re: Member interest

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:32:46 UT

Hi Mary,
We are very informal here. Primarly focused on practical/applied
things.
So please feel welcomed to post your thoughts and maybe folks will chime in.
Your Host,

Re: E-Zendo Re: H.D. Thoreau

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:50:08 UT

Yes, but Goetha scholars say they cannot find any quote like this attributed
too Geothe. "I am guessing Murry adapted the whole quote from Thoreau,
but didn't remember where it came from. Just from memory, so transformed.

Re: E-Zendo Re: H.D. Thoreau

annsar...@verizon.net (Ann Brink) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:40:04 UT

Lee, isn't the Murray quote below almost like the one you used to have after
your signature, attributed to Goethe?
Ann Brink
<[link]> (mostly about pottery)
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Re: E-Zendo Re: H.D. Thoreau

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:33:01 UT

Thanks!
Here is the W.H. Murray quote which borrows from Thoreau. Did you
know that Thoreau translated the first Buddhist Sutra into English?
The Lotus from French into Engish.
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back--
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one

Re: H.D. Thoreau

iariz...@rocketmail.com (Zazen Ivan) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:05:19 UT

Dear Lee,

This is very inspirational. Thanks.

Gassho

Re: E-Zendo Being Time

aspaciousm...@gmail.com (Julian) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:23:56 UT

Or wouldn't the two thieves be standing in the present? The present is
all there ever is. When you think about the 'past', it exists solely
in your memory (which you experience in the present), and the process
of recollection would be happening in the present. When you think
about the future, you're still doing it in the present. All there ever

Re: E-Zendo Re: Zen Traditions

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:14:59 UT

Hi Julian,
Welcome aboard~! Dogen Zenji was asked why there were different
schools of Buddhism with different names and Dogen answered that it
was for the convenience of outsiders. To the Dharma practitioner,
there is only the Dharma.

Re: Zen Traditions

aspaciousm...@gmail.com (Julian) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:16:12 UT

I personally view the different schools of Buddhism, along with their
respective sub-school as forms of 'upaya', or 'skillful means'. I
essentially think there is only one Waking Up, one 'Ultimate Reality',
and many different ways to go about stripping away whatever is
preventing you from experiencing it. Some ways suit some people, other

H.D. Thoreau

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:37:11 UT

Here is a quote that feels very much like the W.H. Murray/Goethe quote
I have shared here before:
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in

Re: E-Zendo Re: Zen Traditions

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:56 UT

2008/5/8 Zazen Ivan <iariz...@rocketmail.com>:
It is less so, I think, than Rinzai. My teacher Katagiri
Roshi had a degree in Psychology from Komazawa University:
[link]
Dogen is sometimes called "The Socrates of Japan." He
wrote many books and composed poetry. What is encouraged is to not

Re: E-Zendo Zen Traditions

iariz...@rocketmail.com (Zazen Ivan) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:07:25 UT

Thanks Lee,

I agree with you. I feel the same way towards Zen. What left me
somewhat bewildered from that sesshin is that at one point, one of the
attendants asked the Zen Master about his opinion on Gudo Nishijima's
book "To Meet the Real Dragon." which most of us enjoyed, and his
answer was "Oh yes! I know him! He's very intellectual!" He pointed

Re: E-Zendo Zen Traditions

toge...@gmail.com (Lee) — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:39:03 UT

Hi Ivan!
Dogen was asked why there were different schools of
buddhism. His answer was, that the different names of the various
schools was just for the convenience of outsiders. To the Buddhist
practitioner, there is only the Dharma.
Because buddhism is natural, it reacts to its environment.

Zen Traditions

iariz...@rocketmail.com (Zazen Ivan) — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:10:31 UT

Through time Zen evolved from Chinese Ch'an Buddhism into the Rinzai,
Soto, and Sambo Kyodan schools. All claim to guard the original
teaching of the Buddha, much like Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism do.
As far as Zen goes (which differs greatly from Theravada Buddhism, and
shares Mahayana texts with Tibetan Buddhism), what are your feelings

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