MISC. NP. since we have talked about mindfulness here

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah. Pretty long koan to me, more power to you, less is my 'enlightenment'.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems very complicated.
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> On Jan 25, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> "A very real Zen answer, to me."
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> Hinayana, actually. Zen and Hinayana are Pacific descendants of Mahayana.
> Both evolved out of Chan, the Chinese variety of Buddhism that integrates
> many Taoist elements, especially elements of alchemy and of flow being
> unidirectional. Both follow the premise that the goal of enlightenment is is
> to achieve Nirvana and, well, graduate out of the cycle of suffering, death,
> and rebirth. In Mahayana, the aim is to achieve Nirvana so that the
> enlightened one can return as a bodhisattva to guide others along the path
> to enlightenment.
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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This morning, while driving to get my pressing news (no NYT delivery
>> where I live), the NPR show ON BEING was on.
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>> Ms. Tippit interviewed Thich Nhat Hanh, leading Vietnamese Buddhist,
>> and quoted to him from his Meditation Handbook. "these techniques will
>> help you handle the pressing questions in your life"...
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>> She then asked him "What are Your pressing questions?"...
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>> He:  "Pressing questions?", reflectively ......."I have no
>> pressing questions"....
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>> A very real Zen answer, to me.
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