#eido shimano

[omshant]

Hey Guys:

I can't feel you rn but I know you're there.

I just hope you can feel me, too.

Also, I think this is cool:

"Quul" (say, O Prophet):

Tasmāj jñātavyam Prajñāpāramitā mahā-mantro, Therefore one should know the Perfection of Wisdom is a great mantra,

mahā-vidyā mantro, 'nuttara-mantro, samasama-mantraḥ, a great scientific mantra, an unsurpassed mantra, an unmatched mantra,

sarva duḥkha praśamanaḥ, satyam, amithyatvāt. the subduer of all suffering, the truth, not falsehood.

Prajñāpāramitāyām ukto mantraḥ tad-yathā: In the Perfection of Wisdom the mantra has been uttered in this way:

gate, gate, pāragate, pārasaṁgate, Bodhi, svāhā! gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond, Awakening, blessings!

Iti Prajñāpāramitā-Hṛdayam Samāptam Thus the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom is Complete

..

(Kudos to the world [esp. BHARAT] for their preservation efforts.).

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"GYATE GYATE HARA GYATE HARA SO GYATE MUSII SO RA JAAH"

(Musii [to me] means Christ.

JAAH [to/for me] means Quul ("Say [,O Prophet]").

I believe it's also a Revelation from Adonai Our God, and a shout of victory and triumph for us and ours..).

(Remix by Me, :TRAYVØÑ;)

Remix inspired by Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the Shakya tribe: "Shakyamuni Buddha", Bodhidharma "the incarnate," Eno Dai Kan AKA HUI NENG (sixth patriarch of Zen), Soen Shaku Roshi and His Student Eido Shimano Roshi of the Rinzai School..

R.I.P.

,and I thank their ordained and appointed student/teacher, Shinge Sherry Chayat Roshi, who ordained me with the name "Mujo" at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, Kongo-ji in early Spring of 2018.

She taught me how to let go. It's in the exhale.

"Let True Dharma Continue"!

~Watuu

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[true-person-of-no-rank]

#soen nakagawa #gempo roshi #gempo yamamoto #eido shimano

[dk-thrive]

We know that the air is there, but unless the wind blows against our face, we are not aware of it.

People often ask me how Buddhists answer the question: ‘Does God exist?’ The other day I was walking along the river. The wind was blowing. Suddenly I thought, Oh! The air really exists. We know that the air is there, but unless the wind blows against our face, we are not aware of it. Here in the wind I was suddenly aware, yes it’s really there. And the sun too. I was suddenly aware of the sun, shining through the bare trees. Its warmth, its brightness, and all this completely free, completely gratuitous. Simply there for us to enjoy. And without my knowing it, completely spontaneously, my two hands came together, and I realized that I was making a deep bow. And it occurred to me that this is all that matters: that we can bow, take a deep bow. Just that. Just that.

~Rev. Eido Tai Shimano, Disciplines for Christian Living: Interfaith Perspectives by Thomas P. Ryan (Paulist Press, 1993)

#Eido Tai Shimano #buddha #buddhist #God #air #wind #sun #gratitude #feel

[jmwart]

If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.

~

Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

We search far and wide for heaven, yet it’s available right here.

~j

#TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #ItsAllRightHere #sacred #nature #life #WakeUp #OpenHeart #practice #EngagedBuddhist #JMWart #JinpaLhaga

#sacred #nature #life #thelongarc #plantingseeds #practice #meditation #engagedbuddhist #enso #jmwart #jinpalhaga

[silence-the-barking-monk]

“A Zendo is not a peaceful haven, but a furnace room for the combustion of our egotistical delusions.”

― Eido Shimano Roshi

[justme-stuff]

On Bowing

Because of this Universal Life, we do our work and have a position.  To this Universal Life, we bow.  We bow.  This is Universal Life bowing to Universal Life.

Zazen is another form of bowing.

-Eido Shimano Roshi

[buddhistscandals-blog]

The founder and leader of New York’s Zen Studies Society, Eido Shimano Roshi carried on clandestine affairs with over a dozen women in his community over the course of thirty years, according to Oppenheimer’s provocatively titled Zen Predator of the Upper East Side. The book gives hard evidence of the affairs and the cover-ups, the testimony of victims, and includes Shimano’s own confession to having sex with some students. Many have an image of Zen abbots as peaceful, enlightened, and sexually abstinent but, they are often worldly, engaged, and sexually voracious.  The notion many hold of a wise, Yoda-like Zen master is not just inaccurate and offensive – it’s deeply unhelpful to the contemplative path itself. In the end, meditation is about finding your own footsteps, in your own Western clothes, and according to your own experiences and insights. Credit: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shocking-scandal-at-the-heart-of-american-zen

#buddhist #zen #metoo #empowerment #education

[blogjeremygoldstein]

Eido Shimano, Buddhist Leader Who Resigned in Scandal, Dies at 85 http://ift.tt/2F9YlEO

#IFTTT #NYT > N.Y. / Region

[pheezy]

“What is this?” calligraphy by Eido Shimano Roshi

[theatlantic]

From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women

Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the United States in August 1960, at the age of 27, to study at the University of Hawaii. He moved in with Bob Aitken, a Zen teacher who had first been exposed to Zen as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp, afterwards studying with leading Japanese masters. Shimano stayed in Hawaii for four years, then left for New York City, promptly to organize one of the country’s great sanghas, or Zen communities. Until the women he serially abused finally began to speak out, in the last two years or so, Shimano was a pillar—the pillar—of the New York City community of Zen Buddhists.

Bob Aitken, Shimano’s first host in America, is now dead. But in a handwritten note dated May 4, 1964, apparently for his own records, he recorded the reason for Shimano’s departure from Hawaii. This note, haunting in retrospect, foreshadows all the abuse that was to come.

Read more.

#History #Zen Buddhism #Kindle Single #The Atlantic #Eido Shimano #Ebook

[true-person-of-no-rank]

#matsuo basho #soen nakagawa #maurine stuart #Nyogen Senzaki #eido shimano #gempo yamamoto

[true-person-of-no-rank]

#philip kapleau #yasutani roshi #eido shimano #prison zen #Mel Weitsman #Shunryu Suzuki #reb anderson #Sobun Katherine Thanas Roshi #Maezumi Roshi

[true-person-of-no-rank]

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[true-person-of-no-rank]

#soen nakagawa #eido shimano #enni ben'en #dalai lama

[true-person-of-no-rank]

#joshu sasaki #katagiri roshi #eido shimano #genpo merzel

[true-person-of-no-rank]

#Hojin Sensei #Peter Matthiessen #soen nakagawa #bernie glassman #Sandra Jishu Holmes #Peter Cunningham #eido shimano