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Ted Biringer
Both sitting and walking meditation are excellent ways to step back into your own fundamental awareness and I recommend them to everyone, especially beginners. However, no particular style of meditation is right for everyone. ~The... More »
Ted Biringer
Once you have deeply experienced and realized the oneness of yourselves, the universe, and the many things, the Zen path calls you to the forge of the ancestors. By using your buddha-eye, that is, your... More »
Ted Biringer
Good friends, all of the great masters urged their hearers to illumine the teachings of sages and actualize the wisdom of reality through observation meditation. Having awakened to the innate function of nonthinking through the... More »
Ted Biringer
Good friends, post-kensho practice and enlightenment is what taking the path of Zen is all about. If the path of Zen called only for achieving a state of emptiness or pure awareness or some other... More »
Ted Biringer
If you truly awaken, you will not be concerned with reality, you will not be enamoured with enlightened masters or teachers, you will not be tangled up in ideas about the rewards of spiritual practice.... More »
Ted Biringer
If you are moved with aspiration to awaken, consider the wholeness of each moment. Each moment includes all of space and time. The beginningless past is centered here; the endless future is centered here. Nothing... More »
Ted Biringer
An Excerpt From The Commentary on Shobogenzo, Genjokoan , in The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing… The Buddha’s truth includes and transcends the many and the one, and so there is life and death, there... More »
Ted Biringer
Frank asked, "If we cease using our minds to conceptualize, how will we be able to solve everyday problems?" Louie Wing said, "Ceasing conceptualization is awakening to the pure and clear luminous nature of your... More »
Ted Biringer
When I talk to you about the unnamable void and ceasing conceptualization, you should be careful about attaching to names and getting caught up conceptualizing about them. The unnamable void is not apart from the... More »
Ted Biringer
Your own true mind contains everything in all space and time. Its operation is infinite and mysterious. It is both the function and essence of all the myriad things. When you awaken, you realize that... More »
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