Ancient Mars Had Energy Source for Potential Life Underground https://www.space.com/41922-mars-life-energy-source-underground.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180925-sdc Exerpt: If life got a foothold in the Martian subsurface long ago, it could have tapped into a plentiful chemical energy source, a new study suggests. That source was hydrogen, generated when radiation split underground water into its constituent parts. And there was… Continue reading Mars News – September 26 2018
Month: September 2018
The Five Hindrances – Ajahn Brahm
The Buddha explained that it is the Five Hindrances that distort perception and corrupt our thinking. He called the Five Hindrances the nutriment that feeds delusion (AN 10.61). The first hindrance, Sensual Desire, selects what we want to see, hear, sense and cognize. It often embellishes the truth. It presents to our consciousness the product… Continue reading The Five Hindrances – Ajahn Brahm
Searching for the Truth – The “How” of it
What way is the safest way to search for our personal connection with "what our deepest heart longs for"?... That seemingly lost connection to something bigger than ourselves .... it seems so strange that it is even there, yet we feel its absence so very acutely........ Shall we find it listening to our birth "DNA"… Continue reading Searching for the Truth – The “How” of it
Buddhist Teachings in Sanskrit and Pali
Alexander Technique – posture, health and mindfulness
"Some proponents of the Alexander Technique say that it addresses a variety of health conditions related to cumulative physical behaviors." "Alexander Technique is an educational process that was created to retrain habitual patterns of movement and posture. Alexander believed that poor habits in posture and movement damaged spatial self-awareness as well as health, and that… Continue reading Alexander Technique – posture, health and mindfulness
Maslow – “Plateau” experience
https://medium.com/@jaidasimone/plateau-experience-hack-consciosness-1149db103481 Maslow seems to bring another perspective on the link into bringing our zazen practice to life 24/7. We have been discussing "effortlessness" on the Soto Zen Buddhism website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would also like to add the question of Maslow's concept of "plateau experience", as it is talking about the ongoing experience as opposed to something… Continue reading Maslow – “Plateau” experience
Health Benefits of meditation – Research
https://www.self.com/story/mindfulness-meditation-health-benefits Excerpts: "There is an intriguing cluster of studies forming around the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation for a couple of other stress-related health issues that are just as universal as depression, anxiety, and pain: inflammation and aging. If meditation can decrease stress—as evidence suggests it does in not just those with certain conditions but… Continue reading Health Benefits of meditation – Research
The end of Chasm Theology
Memory of sitting in the sanctuary doing zazen on a Monday night In my minds eye, seeing Jesus sitting across from me in a pew. Wondering why he wouldn't turn and look at me When the dragons eye felt no such impediment...... Suddenly now it is like clear water........... "If you choose to call him… Continue reading The end of Chasm Theology
Poem – September 13 2018 – An Opening…..
Oh, the crafty intelligent Kung Fu moves of the Ox! Dodging, Distracting, Intellectualizing, Hide and Seek. Then something says: We are all seeing with the eyes of the Ox. We are all hearing with the ears of the Ox. We are all smelling with the nose of the Ox. We are all tasting with… Continue reading Poem – September 13 2018 – An Opening…..
Soto Zen Buddhism Reading List
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind Beginners Mind PDF - https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/ZMBM-Lectures.html - Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness PDF - https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/ZMBM-Lectures.html Robert Aitkens - The Mind of Clover The Mind of Clover Shohaku Okumura - Living by Vow Living By Vow Soto Zen Texts - Soto Zen Texts for Daily Sevices - with Sanskrit and Chinese… Continue reading Soto Zen Buddhism Reading List
Reality is Dharma 