Zazen Notes

My friend Linda Toren has a radio show on station KQBM out of West Point, California, called “A Way With Words”. Here’s the way she introduced her show for Wednesday, May 13th:

Welcome to “A Way with Words”, a program dedicated to poetry, prose, literature, nonfiction, lyrics and the celebration of thoughts ...  read more

ST:  Do you have a fear of death when your mind is still?

MF:  My mind does not “still” per se. I arrive at a rhythm:

1) Relax the activity of the body, in inhalation and exhalation;

2) Find a feeling of ease and calm the senses connected with balance, in inhalation and exhalation;

3) Appreciate and detach ...  read more

A book by Bhikkyu Kumāra, an ordained Theravadin monk, addresses the primary difference between long-time Theravadin teachings and those of the early Buddhist texts (the EBTs).

Kumāra writes that modern Theravadin teachings rely heavily on the separation of vipassana (insight) from samatha/jhana (concentration), a separation that transforms ...  read more