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    Qigong for meditators: Standing Meditation Paid Member

    To watch Qigong for meditators: Video 2, click here.  More »
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    Train Your Mind: Don't Misinterpret Paid Member

    By Judy Lief
    52. Don’t misinterpret.This slogan focuses on six qualities—patience, yearning, excitement, compassion, priorities, and joy—and how they can be misinterpreted. More generally, the point is to see how we can twist things so that our avoidance of the dharma is considered to be a virtue rather than a fault. We are continually tempted to misinterpret teachings designed to soften our ego-fixation in such a way that they instead add more fuel to our self-absorption and distractedness. More »
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    Good Work Paid Member

    Dana (“giving”) is the most fundamental of all Buddhist practices. It is the first topic in the Buddha’s graduated talks, the first step on the bodhisattva’s path to perfection, and the first of the ten paramitas  (perfections) in the Mahayana tradition. It therefore sets the tone for all that follows in the spiritual journey. -Andrew Olendzki, "Dana" Tricycle's "Good Work" section, complete list: More »
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    Green Koans Case 43: Jōshū’s “Mu” Paid Member

    CASE #43:    Jōshū’s “Mu”A monk asked Jōshū, “Has a dog the Buddha Nature?”Jōshū answered, “Mu.”BACKGROUND:Jōshū     (Ch. Zhàozhōu) lived from 778 to 897 C.E. and is often said to be the greatest Ch’an master of the Tang Dynasty. Over 10% of the cases in the classic koan collections Blue Cliff Record and Gateless Gate concern him, the most famous being the current case. Jōshū studied with Nansen as a young monk and later traveled throughout China, visiting famous Ch’an masters in order to polish his understanding. At age 80 he settled down at Kuan-yin Temple in northern China, where he taught a small group of monks until his death 40 years later. More »
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    Train Your Mind: This time, practice the main points Paid Member

    By Judy Lief
    51. This time, practice the main points.This time…Every so often, opportunities to practice the dharma come up.  How many times have you let those opportunities pass you by? I think of this slogan as the mañana slogan. It is the idea that there will always be time to practice later, but right now there are just too many other things going on. The split between times you can practice and times you cannot goes against the grain of the whole lojong approach, which is that every situation is an opportunity for practice. In lojong, there are no excuses and there is no right or wrong time. Basically “this time” is the only time we have, so why not infuse it with mind training?"Practice the main points" More »