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home go back to Zen Commentaries & Teishos thezensite  On the Maka Hanya Haramita Sutra Shodo Harada Roshi July, 1993 From today through the three days which we are gathered here I will do Dharma lectures on the Heart Sutra. This Heart Sutra in a mere 261 words puts together totally the essence of the Buddha's teaching, his wisdom and understanding. This very experience of the Buddha is manifested in this sutra. Of course, this is an impossible task to do in just three days and we will have to abbreviate it greatly and won't be able to cover it all. It is a sutra which should be read by each of us every day, but do not end it's study here please.  The title itself,  Maka Hanya Haramita Sutra , was added later and could be called extra but in fact the essence of this sutra is all put together in this one title, so I shall begin by talking about that one title.  The first word  maka , this word means great, superior, plentiful, all rolled into one. We have to see

I had the great fortune to sit several seshins with Maezumi Roshi and to hear the themes of this talk from him directly. They are living words. LR Appreciate Your Life BY  MAEZUMI ROSHI | MAY 1, 2001 Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window) The pitfall is always within yourself. This very body and mind is the Way. You are complete to begin with. There is no gap, but you think there is. How do you answer when someone asks you, “Why do you practice?” In the Genjo Koan, Dogen Zenji says: To study the Buddha Way is to study the self To study the self is to forget the self To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas. To be enlightened by the ten thousand dharmas is to free one’s body and mind and those of others. The word narau, or “study,” is more like “to repeat something over and over and over.” We could also say “to learn,” but not necessarily to learn something new. Perhaps an even better word would be practice. To practice the Budd

ולא יתדמה כו' שמי שהוא אהוב מאד אצל האדם מרוב אהבתו אותו תמונתו דבוקה בלבו והתמונה הדבוקה בלב מצטיירת ומתדמה תמיד לפניו כאלו היא עומדת נגדו וזה פשט הכתוב שויתי ה' לנגדי תמיד: One who is very much beloved to someone, due to that person's great love, his picture will cleave to his heart. And the picture which clings to his heart becomes manifested and pictured before him always as if it were placed before him. This is the pshat (plain meaning) of the verse (Tehilim 16:8) "I have set G-d before me always". https://www.sefaria.org/Pat_Lechem,_Third_Treatise_on_Service_of_God.5.92

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Ajahn Martin spoke about how when one goes alone into a cave or the forest for long periods of isolation you can fix yourself. Why? Because everything, all your problems are in your heart. When your alone you begin to even hate the trees. Then you know it is all from you!

http://www.theravadin.org/2009/02/13/mindfulness-is-not-sati/ Mindfulness is not Sati? FEBRUARY 13, 2009 /  23 COMMENTS /20389 VIEWS Many people  (especially those who intensively try to put the Buddhas eightfold path into practice) have thought about the meaning of samma sati or “right mindfulness”. In fact, the meaning of this important aspect of Buddhist practice had troubled me for a long time 🙂 (1) The problem occurs when we start looking closer at the oldest Buddhist scriptures available, the Pali texts and look for the meaning and connotations of this important Buddhist term. Before we begin, however,  a very short introductory remark: Why is ‘sati’ so important with regard to the path to Nibbana? Because it is  at the center core of the entire Buddhist meditation : “Now what is concentration, lady, what is its topic, what are its requisites, and what is its development” “Singleness of mind is concentration, friend Visakha; the four foundations of  sati  are its topi