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Part 4 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura

Formless Samadhi in the Diamond Sutra. Part 4 Zazenshin: Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, by Shohaku Okumura https://wp.me/pFy3u-2rj

Formless Samadhi in the Diamond Sutra This idea of formless samadhi came, I think, out of the Diamond Sutra. The Diamond Sutra is one of the Prajnaparamita Sutras. The Prajnaparamita is a collection; it is not just one sutra, and the Diamond Sutra, or Kongo Hannya Kyo, is one of the oldest from India in Mahayana Buddhism. This translation is by Red Pine. Because The Diamond Sutra is a very…

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Fascination for our Mental Suffering. Corrado Pensa

Everyday Buddhist: Fascination for our Mental Suffering. Corrado Pensa Papanca is proliferation; nippapanca is a mind of a buddha. Now, a simple reflection can help, at least it did in my case.

We hear and read that we should look inside. We suffer, we are stuck in some kind of pain, mostly mental — mental torment, mental pain — and the dharma, the wisdom-path emphasises how necessary, how crucial, it is to look inside. And that is different from always looking outside which is much more common. We tend to find faults here and there but not look at the roots inside. So we like this…