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Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1997.
Jack Kerouac • The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Thich Nhat Hanh
Myq Kaplan • 2 cards
Suzuki’s essays. “What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?” (“The Dharma-Body of the Buddha” is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.)
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.
The body is constantly being born, dying, and transforming. I see how feelings are also impermanent, constantly being born, dying, and transforming. Perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness follow the same law of birth and death. All are impermanent. Before your visit today, I contemplated deeply on the impermanent nature of the five skand
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I then realized that to search for the so-called Zen mystery in every haiku is a mistake and to do so takes away the depth of their personal flavor and ordinary mind context.
Patricia Donegan • Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Without discussing these sections in detail, it may simply be said that the first two are concerned with a proper understanding of the doctrine and of the human situation. In some ways the first section, “complete view,” contains all the others, since the method of Buddhism is above all the practice of clear awareness, of seeing the world yathabhut
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