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Chan atau Zen / The uncovering of the jewel
« on: 26 March 2009, 09:37:08 AM »
found an excellent article..... 
The uncovering of the jewel
When we find our life unpleasant or unfulfilling, we try to escape the unpleasantness by various subtle escape mechanisms. In such attempts we are dealing with our lives as if there’s me and then there’s life outside me. As long as we approach our lives in this way we will bend all of our efforts to finding something or somebody else to handle our lives for us. We may look for a lover, a teacher, a religion, a center - something, or somebody, somewhere, to handle our difficulties for us. As long as we see our lives in this dualistic fashion we fool ourselves and believe that we need not pay any price for a realized life. All of us share this delusion to varying degrees; and it leads only to misery in our lives.
As our practice proceeds the delusion comes under attack; and slowly we begin to sense (horror of horrors!) that we must pay the price of freedom. No one but ourselves can ever pay it for us. When I realized that truth it was one of the strong shocks of my lifetime. I finally
understood one day that only I can pay the price of realization: no one,no one at all, can do this for me. Until we understand that hard truth,we will continue to resist practice; and even after we see it our resistance will continue, though not as much. It is hard to maintain the knowledge in its full power.
What are some of the ways in which we evade paying the price? The chief one is our constant unwillingness to bear our own suffering. We think we can evade it or ignore it or think it away, or persuade someone else to remove it for us. We feel that we are entitled not to feel the pain of our lives. We fervently hope and scheme for someone else - our husband or wife, our lover, our child - to handle our pain for us. Such resistance undermines our practice: ‘I won’t sit this morning; I just don’t feel like it.’ ‘I’m not going to do sesshin; I don’t like what comes up.’ ‘I won’t hold my tongue when I’m angry why should I? We waver in our integrity when it is painful to maintain it. We give up on a relationship that no longer fulfills our dreams. Underneath all of these evasions is the belief that others should serve us; others should clean up the messes we make.
In fact, nobody - but nobody - can experience our lives for us; nobody can feel for us the pain that life inevitably brings. The price we must pay to grow is always in front of our noses; and we never have a real practice until we realize our unwillingness to pay any price at all. Sadly, as long as we evade, we shut ourselves off from the wonder of what life is and what we are. We try to hold on to people who we think can mitigate our pain for us. We try to dominate them, to keep them with us, even to fool them into taking care of our suffering. But alas, there are no free lunches, no giveaways. A jewel of great price is never a giveaway. We must earn it, with steady, unrelenting practice.
We must earn it in each moment, not just in the ’spiritual side’ of our life. How we keep our obligations to others, how we serve others, whether we make the effort of attention that is called for each moment of our life - all of this is paying the price for the jewel.
I’m not talking about erecting a new set of ideals of ‘how I should be.’ I’m talking about earning the integrity and wholeness of our lives by every act we do, every word we say. From the ordinary point of view, the price we must pay is enormous - though seen clearly, it is no price at all, but a privilege. As our practice grows we comprehend this privilege more and more.
In this process we discover that our own pain and others’ pain are not separate worlds. It’s not that ‘My practice is my practice and their practice is their practice’ because when we truly open up to our own lives we open up to all life. The delusion of separateness diminishes as we pay the price of attentive practice. To overcome that delusion is to realize that in practice we are not only paying a high price for ourselves, but for everyone else in the world. As long as we cling to our separateness - my ideas about what I am, what you are, and what I need and want from you - that very separateness means that we are not yet paying the price for the jewel. To pay the price means that we must give what life requires must be given (not to be confused with indulgence); perhaps time, or money, or material goods - and sometimes, not giving such things when it is best not to. Always the practice effort is to see what life requires us to give as opposed to what we personally want to give - which is not easy. This tough practice is the payment exacted if we wish to encounter the jewel.
We cannot reduce our practice simply to the time we spend in zazen, vital though this time is. Our training - paying the price - must take place 24 hours a day.
As we make this effort over time, more and more we come to value the jewel that our life is. But if we continue to stew and fuss with our life as if it were a problem, or if we spend our time in seeking to escape this imaginary problem, the jewel will always remain hidden.
Though hidden, the jewel is always present - but we will never see it unless we are ready to pay the price. The uncovering of the jewel is what our life is about. How willing are you to pay the price?
From: Everyday Zen
by Charlotte Joko Beck
http://allspirit.co.uk/blog/?p=184
The uncovering of the jewel
When we find our life unpleasant or unfulfilling, we try to escape the unpleasantness by various subtle escape mechanisms. In such attempts we are dealing with our lives as if there’s me and then there’s life outside me. As long as we approach our lives in this way we will bend all of our efforts to finding something or somebody else to handle our lives for us. We may look for a lover, a teacher, a religion, a center - something, or somebody, somewhere, to handle our difficulties for us. As long as we see our lives in this dualistic fashion we fool ourselves and believe that we need not pay any price for a realized life. All of us share this delusion to varying degrees; and it leads only to misery in our lives.
As our practice proceeds the delusion comes under attack; and slowly we begin to sense (horror of horrors!) that we must pay the price of freedom. No one but ourselves can ever pay it for us. When I realized that truth it was one of the strong shocks of my lifetime. I finally
understood one day that only I can pay the price of realization: no one,no one at all, can do this for me. Until we understand that hard truth,we will continue to resist practice; and even after we see it our resistance will continue, though not as much. It is hard to maintain the knowledge in its full power.
What are some of the ways in which we evade paying the price? The chief one is our constant unwillingness to bear our own suffering. We think we can evade it or ignore it or think it away, or persuade someone else to remove it for us. We feel that we are entitled not to feel the pain of our lives. We fervently hope and scheme for someone else - our husband or wife, our lover, our child - to handle our pain for us. Such resistance undermines our practice: ‘I won’t sit this morning; I just don’t feel like it.’ ‘I’m not going to do sesshin; I don’t like what comes up.’ ‘I won’t hold my tongue when I’m angry why should I? We waver in our integrity when it is painful to maintain it. We give up on a relationship that no longer fulfills our dreams. Underneath all of these evasions is the belief that others should serve us; others should clean up the messes we make.
In fact, nobody - but nobody - can experience our lives for us; nobody can feel for us the pain that life inevitably brings. The price we must pay to grow is always in front of our noses; and we never have a real practice until we realize our unwillingness to pay any price at all. Sadly, as long as we evade, we shut ourselves off from the wonder of what life is and what we are. We try to hold on to people who we think can mitigate our pain for us. We try to dominate them, to keep them with us, even to fool them into taking care of our suffering. But alas, there are no free lunches, no giveaways. A jewel of great price is never a giveaway. We must earn it, with steady, unrelenting practice.
We must earn it in each moment, not just in the ’spiritual side’ of our life. How we keep our obligations to others, how we serve others, whether we make the effort of attention that is called for each moment of our life - all of this is paying the price for the jewel.
I’m not talking about erecting a new set of ideals of ‘how I should be.’ I’m talking about earning the integrity and wholeness of our lives by every act we do, every word we say. From the ordinary point of view, the price we must pay is enormous - though seen clearly, it is no price at all, but a privilege. As our practice grows we comprehend this privilege more and more.
In this process we discover that our own pain and others’ pain are not separate worlds. It’s not that ‘My practice is my practice and their practice is their practice’ because when we truly open up to our own lives we open up to all life. The delusion of separateness diminishes as we pay the price of attentive practice. To overcome that delusion is to realize that in practice we are not only paying a high price for ourselves, but for everyone else in the world. As long as we cling to our separateness - my ideas about what I am, what you are, and what I need and want from you - that very separateness means that we are not yet paying the price for the jewel. To pay the price means that we must give what life requires must be given (not to be confused with indulgence); perhaps time, or money, or material goods - and sometimes, not giving such things when it is best not to. Always the practice effort is to see what life requires us to give as opposed to what we personally want to give - which is not easy. This tough practice is the payment exacted if we wish to encounter the jewel.
We cannot reduce our practice simply to the time we spend in zazen, vital though this time is. Our training - paying the price - must take place 24 hours a day.
As we make this effort over time, more and more we come to value the jewel that our life is. But if we continue to stew and fuss with our life as if it were a problem, or if we spend our time in seeking to escape this imaginary problem, the jewel will always remain hidden.
Though hidden, the jewel is always present - but we will never see it unless we are ready to pay the price. The uncovering of the jewel is what our life is about. How willing are you to pay the price?
From: Everyday Zen
by Charlotte Joko Beck
http://allspirit.co.uk/blog/?p=184
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Mahayana / Jing Si Aphorisms by Master Cheng Yen (Tzu Chi)
« on: 14 March 2009, 08:31:20 PM »While working, learn;
while learning, awaken
to the many truth of life.
Over time, we can
build great character,
achieve great success,
and cultivate great
virtue.
Use wisdom to
contemplate
the meaning of life.
Use resolve to organize
the time you are given.
When walking,
as we step one foot forward,
we lift the other foot up.
In the same way, we should
let go of yesterday
and focus on today.
The future is an illusion,
the past is a memory.
Hold on to the goodness that is
in our heart at this present moment
and take care to fulfill
the duties that we have at hand.
Transient though life may be,
one's contribution will live on;
as we love knows no boundaries,
its spirit will always remain.
A person with
a generous heart
and compassion
for all beings
leads the most blessed life.
To willingly
undergo hardship
for sake of helping others
is compassion.
Those who have great wisdom
must all the more be humble and unassuming,
just like the rice stalk that bows
under the weight of ripe grain
Only those
who respect themselves
have the courage
to be humble.
To be humble
is shrink our ego
until we are small enough
to enter another's eyes
and reside in
their heart and mind.
To regard ourself lightly
is prajna(wisdom).
To regard our self highly
is attachment.
People who are
preoccupied
with past achivements
cannot humble themselves.
We start to slacken
the minute we find excuses
for our self.
To shoulder a burden
is an inspiring force.
To admit a mistake
is a noble virtue.
It is easy to reflect on
major mistakes,
and hard to eliminate
small bad habits.
Repentance
purifies the mind;
a pure mind
can readily
sweep away afflictions.
The hardest thing
for people to see
is them self.
Nothing is impossible
with confidence,
perseverance,
and courage.
We must carry out our task
according to principles,
and not let our principles
be compromised by our task.
Abide by your principles in everything you do.
Never do thing just to satisfy others.
For rather than satifsfying them,
you may get in over your head.
Good action require
everyone's cooperation,
so let's not cling to personal biases.
In handling matters,
let your mind
influence your heart.
In dealing with people,
let your heart
influence your mind.
The beauty of a group
lies in the refinement
of its individuals.
A refined disposition
is naturally expressed
in the way a person
walks, lives, sits,
and sleeps.
Because seeing virtue in others
is in itself a virtue,
in appreciating others,
we in fact dignify ourselves.
Material object were meant to be
tools for us to use.
Yet, lacking wisdom,
we are perpetually discontent,
and we thus become
enslaved by the material objects.
while learning, awaken
to the many truth of life.
Over time, we can
build great character,
achieve great success,
and cultivate great
virtue.
Use wisdom to
contemplate
the meaning of life.
Use resolve to organize
the time you are given.
When walking,
as we step one foot forward,
we lift the other foot up.
In the same way, we should
let go of yesterday
and focus on today.
The future is an illusion,
the past is a memory.
Hold on to the goodness that is
in our heart at this present moment
and take care to fulfill
the duties that we have at hand.
Transient though life may be,
one's contribution will live on;
as we love knows no boundaries,
its spirit will always remain.
A person with
a generous heart
and compassion
for all beings
leads the most blessed life.
To willingly
undergo hardship
for sake of helping others
is compassion.
Those who have great wisdom
must all the more be humble and unassuming,
just like the rice stalk that bows
under the weight of ripe grain
Only those
who respect themselves
have the courage
to be humble.
To be humble
is shrink our ego
until we are small enough
to enter another's eyes
and reside in
their heart and mind.
To regard ourself lightly
is prajna(wisdom).
To regard our self highly
is attachment.
People who are
preoccupied
with past achivements
cannot humble themselves.
We start to slacken
the minute we find excuses
for our self.
To shoulder a burden
is an inspiring force.
To admit a mistake
is a noble virtue.
It is easy to reflect on
major mistakes,
and hard to eliminate
small bad habits.
Repentance
purifies the mind;
a pure mind
can readily
sweep away afflictions.
The hardest thing
for people to see
is them self.
Nothing is impossible
with confidence,
perseverance,
and courage.
We must carry out our task
according to principles,
and not let our principles
be compromised by our task.
Abide by your principles in everything you do.
Never do thing just to satisfy others.
For rather than satifsfying them,
you may get in over your head.
Good action require
everyone's cooperation,
so let's not cling to personal biases.
In handling matters,
let your mind
influence your heart.
In dealing with people,
let your heart
influence your mind.
The beauty of a group
lies in the refinement
of its individuals.
A refined disposition
is naturally expressed
in the way a person
walks, lives, sits,
and sleeps.
Because seeing virtue in others
is in itself a virtue,
in appreciating others,
we in fact dignify ourselves.
Material object were meant to be
tools for us to use.
Yet, lacking wisdom,
we are perpetually discontent,
and we thus become
enslaved by the material objects.
to be continue...
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Kaki Lima / [stock clearance sale:bahan canvas] terima digital print
« on: 11 March 2009, 08:59:15 PM »
stock clearance sale untuk bahan canvas. harga special utk warga DC
bahan canvas hanya tinggal 8m
texture canvas 220gsm, cocok untuk photo & art. hanya Rp. 15/cm2.
minimal ukuran A3, maksimal lebar 80cm dan panjang bebas.
menggunakan tinta pigment + coating semi glossy.
ukuran file 1:1 dlm bentuk Tiff ato PSD.
pembayaran COD(cash on delivery).
tidak bertanggung jawab atas kesalahan gambar/warna setelah proof disetujui.
tidak termasuk bingkai. bingkai bisa langsung ke toko bingkai
kl mo termasuk bingkai, bisa disiapkan. tetapi jujur aja bingkai dr gua mahal
hanya untuk wilayah Jakarta. luar jakarta juga bisa, tapi tanpa proof.
dan bisa juga untuk print B&W. dijamin degradasi B&W smooth
bahan canvas hanya tinggal 8m
texture canvas 220gsm, cocok untuk photo & art. hanya Rp. 15/cm2.
minimal ukuran A3, maksimal lebar 80cm dan panjang bebas.
menggunakan tinta pigment + coating semi glossy.
ukuran file 1:1 dlm bentuk Tiff ato PSD.
pembayaran COD(cash on delivery).
tidak bertanggung jawab atas kesalahan gambar/warna setelah proof disetujui.
tidak termasuk bingkai. bingkai bisa langsung ke toko bingkai
kl mo termasuk bingkai, bisa disiapkan. tetapi jujur aja bingkai dr gua mahal
hanya untuk wilayah Jakarta. luar jakarta juga bisa, tapi tanpa proof.
dan bisa juga untuk print B&W. dijamin degradasi B&W smooth
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Kesehatan / [INFO] Gain Muscle Exercise
« on: 09 March 2009, 11:38:35 AM »
gain muscle exercise
tambahan info berdasarkan pengalaman gua,
- waktu exercise, tulang belakang harus selalu lurus.
- fokus pada trapezius, bahu, dan sayap. dada akan terbentuk sendiri. biasanya ce lebih suka co yg broach shoulder.
- dada yg bagus(utk pria) adalah dada yg melebar. bukan yg "pop up"
semoga bermanfaat
Code: [Select]
http://rapidshare.com/files/207031221/m.rar
no passtambahan info berdasarkan pengalaman gua,
- waktu exercise, tulang belakang harus selalu lurus.
- fokus pada trapezius, bahu, dan sayap. dada akan terbentuk sendiri. biasanya ce lebih suka co yg broach shoulder.
- dada yg bagus(utk pria) adalah dada yg melebar. bukan yg "pop up"
semoga bermanfaat
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Chan atau Zen / posisi tangan Zazen
« on: 07 March 2009, 03:35:41 PM »
dalam Zazen ada 2 posisi tangan, posisi tangan kanan diletakan diatas tangan kiri, dan posisi tangan kiri diletakan diatas tangan kanan.
dalam posisi gomaza, tangan kiri berada diatas tangan kanan.
dalam posisi kichijara/kichijoza, tangan kanan berada diatas tangan kiri.
kebiasaan posisi tangan kiri diletakan diatas tangan kanan tidak berlaku di India kecuali kasus2 khusus. kebiasaan ini berkembang di Jepang dan China dimana tangan kiri disamakan Yin atau ketenangan, dan tangan kanan disamakan Yang atau dinamis. selama Zazen, ketenangan menggantikan aktivitas, sehingga tangan kiri diletakan diatas tangan kanan.
*gomaza adalah posisi teratai penuh, dimana kaki kanan diletakan diatas paha kiri, lalu kaki kiri diletakan diatas paha kanan.
*kichijara/kichijoza adalah posisi teratai penuh, dimana kaki kiri diletakan diatas paha kanan, lalu kaki kanan diletakan diatas paha kiri.
dari Zen A Manual for Westerners by Shindai Sekiguchi
gua biasa Zazen(meditasi ala Zen) dgn posisi gomaza tetapi tangan kanan diatas tangan kiri. beberapa waktu yg lalu saya ubah dan ikutin, tangan kiri yg diatas dan terasa beda. lebih "tenang"
gak tau cuma sugesti doank ato perasaan doank....
masih blm bener2 tau apa bedanya... nanti beberapa bulan lagi baru update lg
ada yg pernah merasakan bedanya?
[at] mod
gak tau mo masukin ke thread meditasi apa di thread Zen. atur aja enaknya gmn. thx
dalam posisi gomaza, tangan kiri berada diatas tangan kanan.
dalam posisi kichijara/kichijoza, tangan kanan berada diatas tangan kiri.
kebiasaan posisi tangan kiri diletakan diatas tangan kanan tidak berlaku di India kecuali kasus2 khusus. kebiasaan ini berkembang di Jepang dan China dimana tangan kiri disamakan Yin atau ketenangan, dan tangan kanan disamakan Yang atau dinamis. selama Zazen, ketenangan menggantikan aktivitas, sehingga tangan kiri diletakan diatas tangan kanan.
*gomaza adalah posisi teratai penuh, dimana kaki kanan diletakan diatas paha kiri, lalu kaki kiri diletakan diatas paha kanan.
*kichijara/kichijoza adalah posisi teratai penuh, dimana kaki kiri diletakan diatas paha kanan, lalu kaki kanan diletakan diatas paha kiri.
dari Zen A Manual for Westerners by Shindai Sekiguchi
gua biasa Zazen(meditasi ala Zen) dgn posisi gomaza tetapi tangan kanan diatas tangan kiri. beberapa waktu yg lalu saya ubah dan ikutin, tangan kiri yg diatas dan terasa beda. lebih "tenang"
gak tau cuma sugesti doank ato perasaan doank....
masih blm bener2 tau apa bedanya... nanti beberapa bulan lagi baru update lg
ada yg pernah merasakan bedanya?
[at] mod
gak tau mo masukin ke thread meditasi apa di thread Zen. atur aja enaknya gmn. thx
66
Perkenalan / Survey umur :D
« on: 06 March 2009, 06:43:18 PM »
hayo.. ngaku umurnya brp?
gua 30
tapi gini2 msh jiwa muda..... masa kecil krg bahagia
gua 30
tapi gini2 msh jiwa muda..... masa kecil krg bahagia
67
Perkenalan / hello
« on: 06 March 2009, 01:34:33 AM »
hello, perkenalkan gua osin.
ude cukup lama baca2 di forum ini, cuma baru kl ini terpanggil untuk ikutan
mohon petunjuknya dari para senior2
ude cukup lama baca2 di forum ini, cuma baru kl ini terpanggil untuk ikutan
mohon petunjuknya dari para senior2