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zenpencils: WE’RE ALL DYING by Caitlin Moran

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:31 -0300

zenpencils:

WE’RE ALL DYING by Caitlin Moran

rah-flores: The Khan Younis Refuge Camp by Joe Sacco

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:58 -0300

rah-flores:

The Khan Younis Refuge Camp by Joe Sacco

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Wed, 15 May 2013 17:23:11 -0300

http://dewyn.tumblr.com/post/50445088260:

“Enquanto estiver lavando os pratos, deveríamos apenas lavar os pratos, o que quer dizer que enquanto lavamos os pratos deveríamos estar completamente conscientes do fato que estamos lavando os pratos. Parece meio bobo assim à primeira vista: porque dar tanta preocupação para uma coisa simples? Esse é exatamente o ponto. O fato que eu estou lá em pé lavando aqueles pratos é uma realidade incrível. Estou sendo completamente quem sou, seguindo minha respiração, consciente da minha presença, e consciente dos meus pensamentos e ações. Não há como ser lançado dali inconsciente como se fosse uma garrafa batendo nas ondas aqui e ali.

Se enquanto estivermos lavando os pratos pensarmos somente na xícara de chá que nos espera, assim apressando a lavação dos pratos que eu possa me livrar deles como se fossem um transtorno, então não estamos “lavando os pratos para lavar os pratos”. Mais que isso, não estamos nem vivos durante o tempo que estamos lavando os pratos. Na verdade, estamos completamente incapacitados de perceber o milagre da vida enquanto estamos ali na pia. Se não conseguimos lavar os pratos, há grandes chances de não conseguirmos tomar nossa xícara de chá também. Enquanto tivermos bebendo o chá, estamos pensando em outras coisas, dificilmente conscientes da xícara em nossas mãos. Assim somos sugados para o futuro — e incapazes de viver sequer um único minuto de vida.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Thu, 09 May 2013 13:56:35 -0300

Pat Perry

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Zazen means sitting in silence, a state of being in...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:59:23 -0300

Zazen means sitting in silence, a state of being in non-judgmental awareness.

The Japanese word Zazen is not easy to translate. Terms like “concentration” or “meditation” are somehow not suitable, because they imply that the mind centers itself around an object. Even the common term “meditation” originally describes a process of contemplating about an object. But what is Zazen?

One day seeing Yakusan sitting in Zazen, Sekito asked him: “What are you doing?”
Yakusan answered: “I’m not doing anything at all.”
Sekito said: “In that case, you are sitting idly.”
Yakusan replied: “If I were sitting idly, the I would be doing something.”
Sekito asked: “You say you are not doing anything. What is this ‘not doing’?”
Yakusan replied: “Not even the ten thousand sages know.”

Zazen is doing nothing. We are however used to constantly doing something. “To do” something without goal or purpose seems an unnecessary waste of time to us. Activity gives us the feeling of continuity regardless of the actual sense or nonsense of our actions. Therefore we prefer to engage in thousands of other things rather than starting with Zazen. Most of our problems are rooted in the inability to sit silently. Particularly western people are very restless. We waste our live in endless activities. Our mind never quietens. We are carried away in an never ending cycle of events. Unaware of the deeper motives of our actions, we remain involved in an endless chain of cause and reaction.

Zazen is stopping. But usually we are ready to do this only if we find that our motives and actions do not lead to the desired success. We rather tend to project our thoughts and we do things to make impressions on others. We want to be seen in certain ways by others. But in this way we are constantly looking on others, loosing ourselves. As long as one does not know oneself, one wants to become something or is imagining to be something and is disappointed if one is not loved.

Zazen is not goal-oriented, it is without purpose and without supportive devices. Zazen is observation and let go. Zazen is to be here and now. However, we experience the present moment only once our consciousness is free from the processes of thought and identification. It is not the achieving of a goal, but the state of being awake, which then has it’s own meaning.

Zazen is direct seeing into the nature of one’s own being. There is no conception, no object, over which one meditates. Our brain forms and stores emotional, conceptual and graphical samples and interprets them. Zazen is awareness without anticipation. All interpretations are the attempt to derive the future from the past. This way we miss the direct perception of the world. To let go of accumulated knowledge seems dangerous to us, because it means the end of routine and security.

Zazen is silence, stability and openness. The body is like a mountain, the spirit is like the sky. If too many thoughts are clouding the perception, we not only loose contact with ourselves, we also loose compassion and humanity. But even when it is cloudy, the sun is shining behind the clouds. If thoughts and emotions are calming down, we start remembering the nature of ourselves. Like undisturbed water, our consciousness returns to it’s natural state.

Zazen is not an auto-hypnotic technique and has nothing to do with any kind of visualizations. The awareness is wide and open and not focused in any way. It is not pondering and wandering around terms or phantasies. Zazen means to become aware of the film which is playing on the screen of our mind, seeing thoughts come and go without judgment or fixation.

Zazen is not concerned with metaphysical speculation or spectacular experiences; it has nothing to do with mystification, esotericism or new age.

Zazen is not asceticism. Zazen is not a dry and serious affair. Zazen is a play, the highest play you can play, alone or with others.

Zazen is returning to the source, becoming intimate with oneself.

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Esperança discreta

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Esperança discreta

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“And, Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:29:51 -0300

“And, Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand new feet, on the brink of the beginnings of mankind as we know it… If he could look forward just a few short hundreds of millions of years to see one of his descendants, an Israeli Jew by the name of Iesus having a nail hammered through his feet, the very feet that Tony provided him with, as a punishment for having a sort of schizophrenic discourse with a god who was created by man to explain the existence of feet in the absence of knowledge of the existence of Tony. I think that would blow his little fishy mind.”—Tim Michin

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What do you do when you realize there is no God?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:25:04 -0300

There is a saying from Buddhism* :

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

As in anything Zen, it can be interpreted in many ways, depending upon your needs of the moment.

Basically in this case, I mean it to say:

While you still believe in a God who has a personal relationship to and looks after you, you do the tedious and difficult daily work of this life because it pleases him and because you hope to be rewarded for your labour in heaven, after you have died.

After you have realised that the possibility there is a giant entity who knows all 7 billion of our names is so remote as to be functionally impossible, you have to learn to do the tedious and difficult work of daily life for different reasons. You have to learn to expect your reward here and now rather than later.

It’s not easy. Many people fall into a deep depression when they realise there is no-one in the sky protecting them specifically. It’s frightening. It’s daunting. It all seems so futile if there is no-one up there with a greater plan that explains all the heartache of life.

But in fact, if you are willing to do the difficult emotional work of honesty and acceptance, once you have passed this milestone you can begin to be freed from the terrible demands of your ego . No, you are not an irreplaceable part of God’s plan. In a hundred years, nobody will know who you were. You are free to do whatever you like according to your own moral code which you are now free to invent for yourself.

Yes, some people will probably invent a personal code which includes the idea that killing and eating other people is fine, but so have those who profess faith in a god. Your morals are not tied to a list of rules from god; they are tied to your character.

* a group of related philosophies with rituals and traditions attached, often mistakenly referred to as a religion

Christine Leigh Langtree

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