Hello En Shin,

Welcome, a creek or a stream in places deep or shallow, the current fast or still, they are as they are.
My wife has a husband though i am not him, would i be exactly as she thinks, what would there be for her to know of me?

Dear En Shin:

I agree with you.

Question should be address is a helpful manner.

To be flippant is not being helpful.

Statements of contention should be discussed in the light of the teaching.

Compassion should be offered.

However no pages of Buddhist interactions would be complete without the Trickster. A fundamental paradigm or archetype is the “trickster,” an impish hero reflecting wisdom through his own foolishness or the foolishness of others.  This to can be a teaching tool if handle with style and grace.

               WU

Theres a one-liner for you.

   And have a nice day!

               ;-)

En Shin,

what is the significance of "nine" bows? I've heard this many times before.

Lynn

When the Wheel of Dharma turns, let  go off all our emotions and desires.

One will be able to see clearly and directly  the truth of our experience in this very moment, to be aware, to be mindful.

Let us All take delight in this sharing and connecting

Happiness come from the Heart

You give and I take  the joy in Sharing It

May All Beings

 Be Well & Happy

With Metta

Too many tricksters!  Way too many tricksters! One trickster is like a dash of salt in the soup. Twenty tricksters is like a cup of salt in the soup.

LadyYour Number Nine Observed Humbleness

With Metta

En Shin, the discussions here are neither interviews nor Dharma talks. This forum is simply just what it happens to be. People are not here as teachers and students, they are just posting. This is not know in traditional Zen, this is new.

You are imagining something and are troubled by the fact that reality does not fit your expectations.  What you can do about it is go on posting in your own way.

En Shin,

thank you

Enshin, I agree with you about the one liners, I think they are are just from people who are playing at Zen and trying to come across as Knowing.

O Just as one lamp can disperse the darkness of a thousand years, one thought of wisdom can destroy then thousand years of delusion.

O if you meet a Good Knowing Advisor, if you listen to the true and right Dharma and cast out your own confusion and falseness, you can see your own true nature.

With Metta to All

''One is a direct communication between teacher and student, and much of that communication is beyond words, and does not appeal to the intellect, but to a deeper wisdom.'''

Hello En Shin,

contrary to how it may be for you, it was just that which appealed to the intellect so intensely that it could not be let go, and was the single motivation for the journey into zen.

The necessity of seeing for oneself did suggest a nuance of some unconditional credibility, equally appealing to the intellect and see it in the heart of the journey itself.

i am both a father and a son,

my father and son each hold my heart in their hands

it remains undivided

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can one be both a Christian and a Buddhist?

enlightenment has no deadline.

no-liners come the closest
all the rest is just a theory of complex concepts

Actually, similar conversations occurred among lazy and ignorant monks in decadent and intellectually sterile Buddhist monasteries, as Dogen noted. So there is nothing at all new about them.

One is always free to choose one's own actions and words.  We can always  make a continual effort to do better. Things do not have to "just happen".

En Shin speaks from his heart and shares wisdom based his experience. It is very fortunate for those who can see this. It is very unfortunate for those who cannot see this.                        

Quote: ". . . one thought of wisdom can destroy then thousand years of delusion . . ."
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True! But still, in most of those Aha! -situations one delusion is replaced with another.

O Delusion mislead us

"No other single thing exists

Like the hindrance of delusion,

Which so obstructs humankind

And makes it wander on forever."

Respect is an important ingredient in life.

If we do not respect others

we may not treat them well.

Everyone deserve respect

and to be treated well.

I thank you for your reply

May All Be Well And Happy

With Metta

Hi,

The gibberish of madmen speaks its own sort of sense in volumes, and 'The Good Fight' is just another fight.

Have a little rest, be compassionate to all our neurosisesesesesesessssss..... there's plenty of room for all.

Remember when all the monks came running out of the haunted woods terrified by the ghosts and ghouls? The Duddeah sent them back in instructing them to say to everything that they met "may you be happy, may you be well..."... and all was well-er or so they say. People are a pain in the ass though, there's no denying it, or rather there is denial, which isn't healthy either.

Regards,

Harry.

En Shin,

I appreciate this post; I could be placed under the umbrella of newcomers. I can barely understand any of the answers given and my previous post was never actually answered.

If it wasn't for my confidence (faith?) in the philosophy, I just would have considered all these guys foolish and left a long time ago.

I'm hoping that maybe here and there, I will get a good response amongst the jibberish.

Unfortunately, there are a number here, who consider their idioms as koans.   They think they know what ther'e on about, however, it's obviously just their delusional thinking.  To which, they will probably come back again with some crappy one liner and consider it intelligent. 

Let us for the sake of compassion, just ignore them and pray they realise their true Buddha nature.

When we realise our Buddha nature (we, all of us, that is), when our boat comes in, when the fat lady sings, when the angel blows his trumpet, when the waters part, when the horse runs well, when the mystery has finally come (good man, Leonard)... then, what will we think of such things as spurious comments on an internet site...?

Buddha has been typing all this time... tell him/her off!

Regards,

Harry.