antisthenes

04Jun09

I’d rather be mad than feel pleasure.

antisthenes

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Windows

01Jun09

IE 6.0.2… makes this site (and all other WP blogs I guess) look awful. How do M$ get away with it. However the public library is now my means of connecting, and they use IE.

Hannyatara, aka Prajnatara, was female?

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fusatsu

26May09

is a ritual of atonement, purification, and renewal of vows

fusatsu

I just found out about this term at one of my Flickr contacts photostreams

Fusatsu at the Village Zendo

I guess it is a renewal of precepts ceremony.

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bodhidharma bodhisattva

25May09

Festival day was 24th May

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Ummon

15May09

Yúnmén Wényǎn 863-949 CE

When Ummon was about to die, he admonished his students in these terms: ‘I have four statements. First is to cut through all mental entanglements, to rely on universal truth. Second is to let go of the body and mind, to shed birth and death. Third is to transcend the absolute, to establish an individual life. Fourth is to haul rocks and carry earth, to perpetuate the life of wisdom.

Yúnmén Wényǎn

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Huang Po

11May09

huang po died 850 CE

To be absolutely without concepts is called the Wisdom of Dispassion. Every day, whether walking, standing, sitting or lying down, and in all your speech, remain detached from everything within the sphere of phenomena. Whether you speak or merely blink an eye, let it be done with complete dispassion.

Huángbò Xīyùn

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only a concept in mind

01May09

Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity – which is only a concept in mind – has not yet begun to understand what it is all about.

from ‘Posthumous Pieces’

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kyosaku

30Apr09

kyosaku from a while back at my other WP blog.

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Seitan

25Apr09

or wheat gluten is part of buddhist cuisine, and is very tasty, especially the lima brand.

Seitan was developed long ago by Zen monks

Seitan gourmet

Wheat gluten

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is said to have been coined by Ohsawa in the early 1960s, but its etymology is uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Japanese sei- (“to be”, “to become”), or -sei (“of the nature of,” “made of,” e.g. in shokubutsu-sei, “made of vegetable”) + tan-, as in tanpaku(shitsu) (“protein”).

seitan steamed vegetables and brown rice

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stop it!

22Apr09

Cease identification with all phenomonality

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