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Ted Biringer
Zen Master Dogen's Genjokoan says: To be actualized by the many things is to allow the body-and-mind of your self and the body-and-mind of other than your self to fall away. When the body-and-mind of... More »
Ted Biringer
In hearing, there is no hearing. Hearing does not depend on hearing. Hearing is not born and it can never die. When sound arises, hearing does not create it. When sound diminishes, it is not... More »
Ted Biringer
One time, when Louie Wing was walking home from a play with several students, a prostitute accosted him. She said, "There is something about you that makes me think you would be an interesting client.... 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
The teaching I expound has been transmitted by the sages of all time, and though I have also expressed what had not yet been expressed, it was not devised by me. Those who wish to... 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
The sun, moon, sky, and stars, Mountains, rivers, plants, and animals, Houses, streets, pots, and pans, All stand up when you stand up. ~The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing
Ted Biringer
There is not a single objective particle in the entire universe; all that you perceive is nothing other than your own mind... Both self and objects are nothing but conceptual ideas based on dualistic thinking.... More »
Ted Biringer
Excerpt from the book, The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing: Second Ancestor of Zen in the West by Ted Biringer The First Ancestor said, "When Buddha is Buddha, he is not conscious of being Buddha,... More »
Ted Biringer
It is never apart from your immediate awareness. Realization is nothing other then awakening to the fact that you and the unnamable void are not two. When you realize that, you awaken from the dream... More »
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