…n chief disciples. ANJA (J). An assistant to the Abbot’s personal jiisha, q.v. ARADA KALAMA. The future Shakyamuni Buddha’s first teacher. ARHAT (S), arahant (J), lo-han (C). One who has cleansed his or her heart of all greed, hatred and ignorance and, knowing the Unborn, Undying, Uncreated and Unchanging in life, becomes completely at one with It in death. ARUPA JHANA (P). The four formless meditations:–Meditation on the realm of Infinite Space;…
…: The Soto Zen Tradition of Buddhism, downloadable from http://www.throssel.org.uk/uploads/srm2.pdf ↩ Great Master Dogen, in his search for a true master, conveys to us that he learnt so very much about the depth and profundity of meditation from observing the everyday activities of old monks in their daily functioning as the chief cooks of monasteries — see, for example, Zen is Eternal Life, Rev. Master PTNH Jiyu-Kennett, 4th Edition, (Mt Shasta:…
…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). …
…6, Shasta Abbey celebrated the 20th Anniversary of Rev. Master Jiyu’s death. Rev. Master Haryo offered the Dharma Talk reflecting on some aspects of practicing with Reverend Master Jiyu. This talk also contains some helpful discussion on our practice of meditation. The Wave (17 min. Given at Shasta Abbey on September 27th , 2012.) This talk was given this fall during a retreat, the theme of which was Preceptual Communications. The talk was given d…