zen

Feel your feelings with detachment, for they will…for sure… pass.

Been really interested lately on Vipassana meditation and studying the Dharma. I’ve also been reading the Dhammapadha…
Curious to know if it will be too much of a conflict with Zen…or if those studies are complementary to Zen…Zen, no Zen…It is all Buddha anyway…Isn’t it?

A student of Christianity, hearing that Zen talks of emptiness, offered for comparison a definition of holiness. Holiness, he said, means completeness, with nothing added to it.

The word holiness is found in Buddhism, too. A Buddha is holy. But in Buddhism, when you become a Buddha, you are supposed to forget you are a Buddha. When you are conscious of being a Buddha, you are not truly a Buddha, because you are ensnared by the idea. You are not empty. Every time that you think you are achieving something — becoming a Buddha, attaining holiness, even emptiness — you must cast it away.

Daily zen ordinary mind

www.do-not-zzz.com/

If you gaze at a single leaf on a single tree, you do not see the other leaves. If you face the tree with no intention and do not fix your eyes on a single leaf, then you will see all the many leaves. If your mind is preoccupied with one leaf, you do not see the others, if you do not set your attention on one; you will see hundreds and thousands of leaves.

Yagyu Munenori, Book on Family Traditions in the Art of War

zen I will zwin!

Found a cool site, it is called Daily Zen

My Warrior blood awakens
Awakes to the sound of the beat of the planet.
To bring justice
To mourn with those who mourn
and the dragon awakens! That dragon that knows no mercy to
those that show no mercy;
Oh that you would know!
The pain and tears that you cause innocent ones.
You will wish you were never born!
For there will not be a rock too strong for you to hide inside
Seek help before it is too late
Before you tremble and wish for death!
You have awakened the sleeping dragon!
The Warrior dragon of humanity
The Warrior dragon Within!