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Actually, to create with the "big I" is to give
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Actually, to create with the "big I" is to give This teaching from Suzuki just struck me so deeply today. Why? Because when I am creating I am thinking "I" am creating, and I am not thinking about giving and I am not thinking about the source of all -- God. I am in the small "I". Emptiness The other teaching today is to experience emptiness is: If you continue this practice, eventually you will experience the true existence which comes from emptiness. We should know that ture existence, true living depends upon realization of emptiness. For then we can have gratitude and appreciation, free of ego and craving, experiencing joy in life, openness and love, purity and truth. Moment after moment we are creating something, and this is the joy of our life. But this " l" which is creating and always giving out something is not the "small I" ; it is the "big I ." Dogen-zenji said, "To give is non-at...
Abrahama-Viharas of Loving Kindness
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Brahma-Viharas (the Divine Abodes) The ‘Brahma-Viharas’ pre-date Buddhism and as such they have a Universal quality. Loving-kindness is the first of the four Brahma-Viharas practices intended to develop ‘Immeasurable, Boundless Qualities of the Heart’. The other three Brahma-Viharas are Compassion, Joy-gladness and Equanimity . Together they are the doorways to self-love, self-compassion, self-appreciation and self-balance. Out of the rich soil of Loving-kindness, Grows the beautiful bloom of Compassion, Shaded by the cool tree of Equanimity, Watered by tears of Joy-gladness. These four ‘concentration’ meditation practices train the mind to stay focused on a single object and transform our relationship to ourselves and others. These are a gradual training : you only take on that which you can skilfully and wisely deal with. These practices of Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy-gladness and Equanimity are a prescription for healing the Heart-mind (Ci...