Sublime

Under such circumstances the problem of discipline became paramount. The Zen masters were forced to concern themselves not only with the way of liberation from convention, but also with the instilling of convention, of ordinary manners and morals, in raw youths. The mature Western student who discovers an interest in Zen as a philosophy or as a way

I always teach in the immediate. When I am working with someone, I don’t concern myself with where they are in the realization process or a specific trajectory. In this way, the teaching can be immediate and not “loaded” with preconceived ideas of where someone is coming from or where they are headed. Hence the exchange is intuitive, instant, and

practices and emotional intelligence, as well as Appreciative Inquiry, Action Learning, and positive psychology.

Shobogenzo

When I was off balance, koans pushed me further off balance and into unknown territory. I liked that. I was always struggling to have things make sense, and koans allowed me, or required me, to work with life more the way an artist would, loving especially the material that didn’t

So in this practice, you go slowly through the threefold process of perception: the sense of being, the sense of doing, and the sense of linking together.

Atisha passed on his lineage to his close disciples, and a few generations later, Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–76) wrote down these teachings, which were later organized as the The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training, fifty-nine slogans divided into seven categories. This presentation of lojong, which makes up the framework of