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Comments to Articles in Tricycle 04, 11/12/2024

01) Zen is what happened when Buddhism met Taoism. And taking this article as an example of Zen having more to do with Taoism than with Buddhism, where in Zen would we find anything remotely suggesting that we strive “to attain the state of Noble Tara”? Yet, we speak of “Zen Buddhism” and not “ZenContinue reading “Comments to Articles in Tricycle 04, 11/12/2024”

Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024

01) Putting pain in its place and keeping it there is a matter of seeing what we can get by with and being able to take “No” for an answer. I’ve been on cutches because of arthritic knees for 10 years, and allowing pain tell me what I can do and cannot do–and being fineContinue reading “Comments Made To Articles in Tricycle 05, 12/28/2024”

In Response to Tricycle Magazine Articles

Habitual Intuition  Protest, renunciation, repudiation I think of pain as “the inability to function normally.” I think of Zen’s gift to Buddhism as “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” Taking the Buddha out of Buddhism leaves us with becoming who the Buddha was. By being the Buddha, not as the BuddhaContinue reading “In Response to Tricycle Magazine Articles”

Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 02, 09/26/2024

01) Whose idea of the “Spozed To Be” are we following here? Where one life is nothing, and a thousand generations, more or less, are required for karma to finally get around to perfecting the next Buddha, or is the one after the next, or the one before? And who made all of this up?Continue reading “Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 02, 09/26/2024”

Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 01, 09/13/2024

01) The Buddhist approach is sooooo intellectual, logical, reasonable, left-brained, my mind-body recoils in revolt to the very idea. What becomes of “go with the flow”? Of spontaneity? Of intuition? Here’s one for you: There is no path! There is no journey! There is no destination! There is only ONLY doing what is called forContinue reading “Comments Made to Articles in Tricycle Magazine 01, 09/13/2024”