Last time in this series on "Why Zen Folks FAIL!", we looked at NOT KNOWING HOW NOT TO CHASE! Folks don't know how to be totally still. This time, the reason "Zen Folks FAIL!" is because of complacently NOT KNOWING HOW TO CHASE! Folks don't know how to keep climbing and moving!
Saying about this life and world that "there is nothing in need of change" --does not-- mean "there is nothing in need of change". Simply because all things are "perfectly complete, just as they are", that --does not-- mean that all things are "perfectly complete, just as they are". Saying so is only from one beautiful perspective. In fact, to realize profoundly that "there is nothing in need of change", we must change our human tendencies of excess desire, anger, jealously and other divisive thoughts of ignorance. There is a lot about us in need of change in order to realize that nothing was ever in need of change from the first, not a drop.
Further reading and discussion for this talk are available on the Treeleaf forum:
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Why Zen Folks FAIL!! (4) - NOT CHASING ENOUGH! »
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: The "Non-Bucket" List
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: Koan Misunderstandings, Koan Dogma
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: BIG & small
Sit-A-Long with Taigu - Meeting the real self
Treeleaf 'Shukke Tokudo' Ordination Ceremony: THIS SUNDAY
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha
DON'T Sit-a-Long with Jundo: THE END OF TREELEAF!
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu FUKANZAZENGI 5
SIT-A-LONG with Jundo: WHAT'S NEXT!?!
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fresh wisdom
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XV)- Ultimate Finality
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: WHOLLY HOLY WHOLE
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: the sound of a bell
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming -(XIV)- Child Comes Home
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming-(XIII)-Child in Hospital
SIT-A-LONG with Taigu: Fukanzazengi 4
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen - A Love Supreme
SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Dogen is SO OLD!
Taigu - Rituals
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