Heres your Zen training for the year.

[Andre]

The goal to seek in the expending of effort; is to have it eventually become effortless.

Effort and ease are not in opposition, they compliment each other.

Grace and relaxation are supported by a great strength.

Having the knowledge to allow, is the foundation of great strength.

[Andre]

A lady once tried to take singing lessons but never could grasp it.
She gave up the lessons and the ideas of being a great singer, only then she began to sing naturally with freedom.
Her mind and her vocal cords were at peace.

[Andre]

Ok Donny, thanks ,I heard you..
Here have some
Taoism:

A good walker leaves no tracks;
A good speaker makes no sips;
A good reconer needs no tally.
A good door needs no lock.
Yet noone can open it.
Good bindings need no knots yet noone can loosen them.

Therefore the sage takes care of all men
and abandons not one.
He cares for all things
And abandons nothing.

IF the teacher is not respected.
and the student not cared for;
Confusion will arise however clever one is,
This is the crux of mystery.

Lao Tsu

[wesrman]

I love zen proverbs (or whatever they're called).


So little time, so little to do.(Oscar Levant)


Like the clear stillness of autumn water—pure and without activity; in its tranquil depths are no obstructions. Such an one is called a man of Tao, also, a man who has nothing further to do. [Wei-shan Ling-yu (Isan Reiyû)]

[Andre]

Heres a large key : mankind is so busy doing, that he is no longer is being.
Human be ing..
That is the crux of his downfall he belives what is false through thoughts and speach instead of feeling and acting in what is true to his real form.

[Dizaster]

The goal to seek in the expending of effort; is to have it eventually become effortless.

Effort and ease are not in opposition, they compliment each other.

Grace and relaxation are supported by a great strength.

Having the knowledge to allow, is the foundation of great strength.

I love that one.. Effort and ease wrestle constantly with each other in my life. I always feel like I have to sacrifice ease for the sake of effort..

Nice one.

Some of the zen proverbs are logically great and can immediately release a knot in your brain... Some involve no logic at all, and can release an emotional knot, just by reading the words, without needing understanding of them...

That's what the above one did for me...

Appropriately i'm cleaning my entire house today, which up until now, has involved a lot of tension with the effort... I guess now it is not needed...

[Andre]

Cut the hole in a wall for a door it is the hole that is used.
Shape a vessel from clay it is the space within that is of use.
Therefore profit comes from what is there , usefulness from what is not there.

(My personal fav, from Lao Tsu.)

It can be applied to anything and answers many questions about life and its many forms out from the formless void, can use it for fighting to business to more peace in meditation ,more.

[pacfan]

Exactly what I've been trying to preach all over the saddos.

Let it be...let it go

Believe me, this is the ultimate principle, my 30 year wisdom rolled into just one phrase. To put it poetically:

When things go bad and you feel bad,
let it be if you can do nothing about it,
let it go if you can...

When someone hurts you and you're affected,
let it be if you can do nothing about it,
let it go if you can...

When you are just in plain bad mood,
let it be if you can do nothing about it,
but let go if you can...


Ok, agreed I don't make a good poet, so I'll stop trying to be one.


...ps, I joke a lot, it's also part of my philosophy: always have a childlike sense of joy, wonder and humor...

[Andre]

Exactly what I've been trying to preach all over the saddos.




...ps, I joke a lot, it's also part of my philosophy: always have a childlike sense of joy, wonder and humor...

Monkey had it too.
But it doesnt work well if police pull you over and say you were speeding and you reply;
"AHH what would you know ? your just a pig"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3RH-...eature=related

[pacfan]

What the heck was that Andre, I thought you had some important Zen message there but that was just a Japanese movie about the Chinese monkey man. So that's your sense of humor.

[pacfan]

Two monks were arguing about the temple flag waving in the wind.
One said, "The flag moves."
The other said, "The wind moves."
They argued back and forth but could not agree.

Hui-neng, the sixth patriarch, said: "Gentlemen! It is not the flag that moves. It is not the wind that moves. It is your mind that moves."

[Andre]

A Rabbi and priest see a little boy playing in the park
The priest says lets go screw that little boy.
The rabbi says "what out of"?

[Andre]

What the heck was that Andre, I thought you had some important Zen message there but that was just a Japanese movie about the Chinese monkey man. So that's your sense of humor.

No but yeah but; Monkey is the embodment of cheekyness, humour ,stupidity and fun while learning.

[pacfan]

Pacfan says,
Now I see you [that's you!].
But it's my time to go to bed
As no thieves arrived
After a long night watch
And some meditation.
Adios my brother.
See you tomorrow
As my eyes are betraying my senses
And my body ready for a day's rest
Until another cycle
Of this world's nothingness
And nothingness
And...

[Andre]

You ever think of moving? sounds like a tough area mate.
Im lucky I can go out an leave the door wide open and its about a 95 to 5 risk in favor of me comming home to everything ok.
I feel for you ,thats added pressure you dont need in life.