Stopping blog for a while.
Dear all members,
Because I am going to a hospital, I would like to stop Dogen Sangha Blog for a while.
I beg your pardon.
Gudo Wafu Nishijima
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Because I am going to a hospital, I would like to stop Dogen Sangha Blog for a while.
I beg your pardon.
Gudo Wafu Nishijima
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE:
For the duration of Nishijima Sensei's hospital stay, the administrators of this blog have removed the ability of authors other than Nishijima Sensei himself to post new articles. You will still be able to add comments freely to the comments section. We appreciate your understanding.
posted by GUDO NISHIJIMA | 8:02 AM
17 Comments:
Pardon granted. I wish you well and will direct my healing energy your way. I finished Shobogenzo Book 1 and will read it again. It was too much to digest all at once.
Dear Master Nishijima,
Thank you very much for everything, I hope you get well soon.
Dear Nishijima Roshi,
wishing you all the best and a soon recovery.
Regina
Dear Master Nishijima,
I hope to read you soon on your blog.
All our best wishes for recovering
Dear Roshi,
Thank you very much, and Best Wishes.
Regards,
Harry.
Get well soon Roshi.
Nishijima Roshi:
Thank you for offering this teaching, and be well.
Rob
Nishijima Roshi,
Thank you for all of your efforts.
Jordan
Dear Master Nishijima,
I'm wishing you all the best, take care! Hope to hear you soon.
Thank you for your all efforts.
With best wishes,
Markus
Master Nishijima,
I hope you will be back soon.
Best wishes,
Markus
Dear Nishijima Sensei,
I hope all will be well and we'll look forward to your return.
Philip Proffitt
Take as long as you need, we will be good.
Dear Nishijima Roshi,
With beauty all around, wishing you well on this first day of Spring.
Are there cherry blossoms?
Keishin
Thanks for your teachings. I hope you are doing well!
On Brad's blog, Peter said...
Brad,
One of Nishijima’s Japanese students wrote on his blog about a talk Nishijima gave on March 15 in Hongo in Tokyo. Nishijima had a bit of a cold, but decided to give the talk anyway. It was his first talk there for a while and a lot of people showed up. There were 30 people for zazen and they barely had enough zafus. After zazen Nishijima lectured for about 2 hours on Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and answered questions at the end.
The post was written before Nishijima entered hospital. It might be that his cold got worse after that lecture and he decided to go to hospital.
Here’s a link to the post
http://doutetsu.exblog.jp/i3/
sensei (xiānsheng):
do you hear my chant?
my prayer is with you
o-cha-ryu
Dear Roshi,
i have a question stemming forth from zazen.
when just sitting without any focusing or goal, merely paying attention to present moment as i understand dogens instruction, i notice many mental formations rise and fall. sometimes these can be quite dramatic, other times fairly boring.
to come back to "think not thinking" requires a turning away from the mental formations and tension is produced from the force of turning away. i wonder if this force of turning away from the mental formations is right effort as it produces a tension. other practices i have experimented with such as counting the breath, naming the thoughts or watching the mental formations without effort to change them seem to relax, rather than produce the tension.
is it right effort to turn away from thought?
is it a waste of zazen to watch effortlessly the mental formations?
in appreciation,
barry
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