…live and work in Latvia, she wears monks’ clothes and lives in a practiced daily rhythm, adding that there is a little more time to sleep, exercise, and read books. Returning to Latvia, which had never really been a known place, Elga dared to start a new life. She doesn’t know if there are people here who will be interested in Zen Buddhist teachings, meditation and retreats. But her experience gives her strength, “In this life, we are in a process…
…ye. And you awaken to the fact that you don’t have to be a swirling thought-cloud. You’ve put something down. You’ve seen the house-builder; the creator of worlds. You don’t seek truth, or call something delusion; and you return to a place you fundamentally never left. And you’ve transmuted the ordinary mind into the Buddha mind. There’s the whole alchemical process of trying to transmute lead into gold; transmute something base into something spe…
…its approach to Buddhism, see Zen is Eternal Life, by Reverend Master Jiyu-Kennett. This book is available, in pdf form (here) with other publications from the OBC, and is available at various online booksellers. To read more about general Buddhism see Basic Buddhist Concepts by Kogen Mizuno, (available at various online booksellers) or The Buddha And His Teachings by Narada Thera (available in pdf form here and at various online booksellers). …
…y the celebrant with the spade or torch at the funeral ceremony. In the eye-opening ceremony for a Buddha statue, the three dots are made by the pen or brush. In all of the above the “three dots” are the “enlivening aspect” of the Dharma, that is our own meditation and training which we bring to the ceremony and to all aspects of daily life. In the symbol of the Ship and Three Drums, the ship which carries all beings to the other shore is the cont…