March 2009

Shunryu Suzuki and his teaching Nothing Special
Zen

Nothing Special – Shunryu Suzuki

I love this quote by Shunryu Suzuki. It’s not about having special experience. No experience will ‘save you’ or give you eternal happiness. You cannot take refuge in particular experiences, however uplifting or extraordinary. Not satori, not insight, not enlightenment, not getting there. Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual […]

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Blue sky symbolising All Experience is Mind - spacious openness, and the play of empty appearances without a me.
Mahamudra

All Experience is Mind

All experience is mind is probably a misleading title for this post. It seems to suggest that experiences are ‘something’, and that this something is ‘mind’ – a thing. It’s as if there is this thing called mind which exists, and our job is to discover it, to reveal it. But actually, it doesn’t! Instead,

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