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War and Anger

September 23, 2008 19 comments

Question of the Week: 9/22 – 9/28
This great question comes from iamasimpleman on the short post, No Mystery. “I have read your words several times and the begin to touch my heart. But there is something against it which comes directly from my heart, anger. And this anger says, want to say, sit Takuin in a time machine to Ausschwitz and than let him talk to these people. I can tell you and send you to a thousand places in history.”

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No Mystery

September 20, 2008 7 comments

None of this is a mystery. The way the body functions from moment to moment, the thoughts that may or may not arise, the hair on your head falling into your face. Always as it is; never as it should be. The only mystery is the one you have created. Outside of your ideas, where [...]

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Sitting #3

September 17, 2008 3 comments

Photo by Takuin Minamoto Wanting to become, hides the true essence of being. One sees the apparent result; the ecstasy, the pure emptiness of liberation; and wants it completely. But can you know it before it comes? Can you have it when nothing can take it? What can you do? This natural expression of the [...]

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New Theme for Takuin.com

September 8, 2008 6 comments

As some of you have noticed already, there has been a bit of a change in this house. And I like it. I won’t go into every little detail, but I will point out a few things.  There is a new function at the bottom of each post allowing you to subscribe to the comments [...]

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An Exercise in Inquiry

September 5, 2008 14 comments

Photo by Takuin Minamoto I don’t really give exercises, and I do not prescribe fixes for illusory problems. But I thought it might be of some use to go into what is inquiry. This will be a relatively quick post, as we can go into it further in the comments and flesh it out from [...]

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