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Shinkyū
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Shinkyū
@durdfarm
dad, zen priest currently living on couches in MI, Dogen stan
Katılım Aralık 2010
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@IkkyusDen It’s the mind cultivated in zazen that doesn’t grasp, push away, or ignore the present moment. It’s the “just” of “just sitting,” “just walking,” etc.
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@durdfarm Lady at the dojo said the "hi" kanji is a bird so I guess its about being high as a kite. Beyond beyond further beyond!
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Beginning to think that Dogen's hishiryo points to the same thing as rigpa
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@TheMindScourge My son acted pretty much the same with me and his mom.
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I’ve had 4 newborns and, fundamentally, newborns have zero interest in their fathers. They just don’t. They are entirely fixated on their mother. They know her from being in the womb. They know how she sounds, smells, the rhythm of her heartbeat.
The father is a stranger by comparison. They don’t know you. So when you hand off the baby to the dad, you might as well be giving the baby to a random person on the street for all the baby knows
The dad’s role is the support the mother however possible. But you cannot get the baby to care about the father for several months at a bare minimum. Some dads take this personally. They think they have to do something. But there’s nothing to do. It just isn’t about you
A great example of this is skin to skin contact: fathers can warm their baby against their chest, but also overheat them, as the heating is unidirectional and there’s no feedback
Whereas with the mother, the thermoregulation is bidirectional. Her chest can warm up to 2 degree C or cool up to 1 degree C to thermoregulate the baby
Romy@Romy_Holland
fiancé was up half the night with the baby, who was inconsolable for much of it. this morning i heard him thru earplugs and 2 closed doors and went in, and the instant i took him he stopped crying. i soothed him for a few minutes and handed him back, and he immediately started screaming again despite fiancé doing everything identically to me. we are generally pretty equal in how much time we spend taking care of the baby, so it’s not like the baby’s more familiar with me. it’s nice to have this superpower but also i do not want the related responsibilities.
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@IkkyusDen I’ve also found that the aspects of zen that grind against our particular natures are exactly the areas we need to practice in more. If something seems absurd, it’s typically the self / karma rearing its head. Best to dive in and watch how we react to all of it.
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@IkkyusDen Every lineage of zen and every person of zen finds the balance between what’s made up (empty) and ritual propriety and hierarchy (form). We “play along” with our lineage, finding our own particular harmony, but there needs to be a solid base.
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I'm confused what's up with some zen people. I mean they dress up like 12th century Japanese mountain madmen, call each other silly names like "sky heart" or whatever, sing words they don't understand, and expect me to not treat the whole thing as an improv game?!
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@hereandnowness There are larger lists of options and constraints etc, but the AI chose these ones specifically for this particular session
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@Thomasdelvasto_ I’m not quite sure of the difference. In zen we honor our past teachers back to the Buddha (which we call a blood line). On my own time I honor all my past mothers and fathers going all the way back.
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@durdfarm So is this more of a religious thing or a bloodline/father to father thing?
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It’s blowing my mind that there was an ancient ur-religion of domestic and ancestor worship shared in shockingly precise similarities between the Greco-Roman and Vedic worlds…
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@Thomasdelvasto_ Well, with candles and non-alcoholic beer. Being a Buddhist priest changes things a bit. We even revere our Buddhist ancestors in similar ways as well in Soto Zen.
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@durdfarm Fascinating! You perform ancestor worship have a hearth fire etc?
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@ArcanaAsymptote The Buddha’s teachings set out systematically. It looks more like philosophy to the western eye.
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This story makes more sense when you realize that an ox is his own mind. To think of nothing but an ox means zazen in its broadest sense. His horns being too wide to fit through the door is his direct experience of the empty nature of his delusions. 1
Nick Hinton@NickHintonn
“There is a Zen story (very funny — ha-ha) about a monk who, having failed to achieve ‘enlightenment’ (brain-change) through the normal Zen methods, was told by his teacher to think of nothing but an ox. Day after day after day, the monk thought of the ox, visualized the ox, meditated on the ox. Finally, one day, the teacher came to the monk’s cell and said, ‘Come out here — I want to talk to you.’ ‘I can’t get out,’ the monk said. ‘My horns won’t fit through the door.’ I can’t get out . . . At these words, the monk was ‘enlightened.’ Never mind what ‘enlightenment’ means, right now. The monk went through some species of brain change, obviously. He had developed the delusion that he was an ox, and awakening from that hypnoidal state he saw through the mechanism of all other delusions and how they robotize us. EXERCIZES” Robert Anton Wilson
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