01
Apr
Do the Buddha fields set up by Kosen span all directions or only 10?
01
Apr
Can zazen help me to go beyond in my work of clinical presentations concerning the autistic and psychotic persons?
Salut, Je travaille dans un centre thérapeutique de recherche en analytique. Je fais des présentations cliniques à propos d'autistes et de psychotiques, le centre où je travaille fonctionne beaucoup avec les travaux de Lacan, mais je dois avouer que parfois mes interprétations reprennent le dessus. Est-ce que zazen peut m'aider à aller au ...
01
Apr
I don't understand why there are handicapped children.
I meet sometimes mentally or physically handicapped people,this is ok.But what is very difficult for me to understand, it's childrenwho have these problems. What is their karma ? Some childrenare even especially agressive. I would like to understand.
01
Apr
Who is Maitreya?
Who is Maitreya?
12
Nov
What was Buddha's answer to Sariputra?
What was Buddha's answer to Sariputra?
01
Apr
Which is the relation of Master Kosen with the AZI?
Which is the relation of Master Kosen with the AZI? What to make of the AZI? I seek a place to practise zazen. Can you help me?
01
Apr
I wonder if liberation is only a nice word in zen books
I sit nearly everyday counting breath; I offered my room for zazen for now over 4 years , to attract other people to sit together with me, but people come and go noone stays, I feel alone and apart from a group of other people on the zen path,i failed to establish a local sangha; I only sit there facing the wall and nothing happens beside pain ...
01
Apr
What do you think about people able to see in the future?
What do you think about people able to see in the future? Do you believe it? Have we a destiny? Maybe the one to find the light?
12
Oct
Why is there this difference between the word of the action and the word of the theory?
A personal conflict? Surely. My work is centered on exchange and communication, to guide the customers towards the best decision in their immediate future. Well, I see it like that. And I obtain some good results. Speaking clearly: I work with the french employment agency.But at the proper time to communicate the logic of my actions to those who...
01
Apr
Why can we remember the past but not the future ?
Cher Maître Kosen, Pourquoi pouvons-nous nous souvenir du passé, mais pas du futur? Dit d'une autre manière, quelle est la nature du temps? Merci beaucoup d'avance.
01
Apr
How to integrate the infinite into the finite
How to integrate the infinite into the finite ?
24
Oct
How to be respected in one's work?
My question is the following one, how to be respected in one's work when we one is department head, when we have to show a strong personality whose one and only purpose is to annoy people and mess the others? Since it is necessary to be released from ones ego and its feelings, how can I still have authority on my personnel?
01
Apr
I have the feeling that you do not have a good opinion of the AZI
Master Kosen, I have the feeling that you do not have a good opinion of the AZI. Would they by chance have kept apart or transgressed the teaching of its founder, Master Deshimaru ? Alberto.
01
Apr
I have a love who does not love back. How do I deal wit this ?
I have a love who does not love back. How do I deal wit this ?
06
May
Do I have to continue practising in a seated way?
"Thus what is contradictory is that we say it is necessary to abandon the ego. Yes, but if you sit down on a chair in order not to feel pain and you are doing zazen with your ego on the chair, it will all come down to nothing, because it is necessary to abandon the ego to find your true nature." I resume this question already asked on the fact ...
22
Nov
Unverifiable panic disorders.
Zen practitioner for almost 10 years, I would need some useful recommendation. I have always feared "locking up" situations. Sometimes, as a child, it was enough for me to be stuck in the middle of a queue, at the cinema for example, to feel the panic go up: palpitations, feeling of oppression, tingling in my limps... Generally, the crisis lasts...
07
Nov
Am I turning aside?
I'VE BEEN PRACTISING FOR TWELVE YEARS, WHEN THE FUELWOOD OF THE ILLUSION OF THE FASCINATION, FROM THE ORDINATION ...... HAS ALREADY BEEN BURNED COMPLETELY I AM AGAIN WITH MY STUPIDITY AND MY FEARS.... THIS IS TO SAY NAKED AND AS THE SAME FOOL AS USUAL. IS THIS PART OF THE WAY OR AM I TURNING ASIDE?
13
May
Tibetan master and zazen practice?
I have met buddhism when I was very young through tibetan and zen traditions. I could never tell these two traditions apart in my practice. So, I took refuge in a tibetan master ( I follow teachings of this traditions) but I also practice zazen. Recently, I have met Roland Yuno Rech who told me that if I want to make progress on the Way, I will ...
16
Oct
Taking the air to the abdomen?
Please, it is not clear to me if when I breathe in I must take the air to the abdomen or if I do that when I breath out. In "Zen in the Art of Archery" they teach the author in a different way from the one I was taught in the dojo of Buenos Aires. ALSO ON THE WEB OF THE URUGUAYAN BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION, THERE IS A DRAWING WHERE THE ABDOMEN ...
16
Oct
Teachings of Nichiren.
According to the teachings given by the monk Nichiren Daishonin, it is said tha through the invocation of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (essence of the lotus sutra "Myoho Renge Kyo" in japanese)in front of the Gohonzon which is a mandala that reflects the state of life of the boudha one can develop a superior state of life, rising the vital energy and so,...
01
Apr
What is the share of silence to take in everyday life when we try to practise zazen?Hervé, Dunkerque (France).
Pour quelqu'un qui pratique ZAZEN chez lui, est-il nécessaire d'abandonner dans la vie quotidienne des "bruits parasites" tels que télévision, radio, etc.? Question résumée: Quelle est la part de silence à accorder dans la vie de tous les jours quand on tente de pratiquer zazen?
14
Dec
The concept of the Observer.
Hello, During the sesshin of this summer in Catalonia, you talked about a feeling similar to that when we discover we have been practical joke with a hidden camera. After the first laughter, at the time of the kusen, I wondered about this analogy and I intuitively thought of having the feeling of it with what you wanted to refer to. On the ...
23
Dec
What is the sense of happiness?
What is the sense of happiness?
30
Nov
This feeling of rage which boosts me.
To feel strong internally and to hold out, I need to dispute myself, insult myself, say to me that life is a combat, that I do not have the right to let me cut down by the difficulties which I encounter at work and in the every day life, that there is too much suffering in this earth, and that I do not have the right to listen to me, to deplore ...
04
Jul
Egoistic practice?
Somewhere you have write that to practice alone is egoistic. Why?
01
Apr
How do you feel when you see again the old friends/disciples of Sensei in the Gendronnière ?
Hi! What was it like meeting all the old friends/disciples of Sensei during the Big Ceremony on 16th/17th of June at the Gendronniere? Vladimir
01
Apr
Is this sort of experience typical?
When I practiced Soto Zen I fought a lot with it. It goes against ourwestern mind set. But with a great deal of (non) effort I eventuallysettled in to a good-deep meditation. It effected my dreams. They were realand I was in control of them. My sleep seemed to be just another stateof mind, somehow I was aware that I was sleeping and could ...
01
Apr
What is a sesshin?,
What is a sesshin? I am a begginer, I suffer tremendous pain in Zazenand have not achieved a right posture. Going to the sesshin could helpor I have to be more apt ?
01
Apr
Is it true that practicing the way is dangerous?
Hello Master Kosen, I have read the book "what is the enlightening?" from John White in whom 10 prominent figures speak (Sri Aurobindo, Krisnamurti, Ken Wilber etc) about their experiences, and they all seem to coincide in that "The Way" of the practice of meditation is dangerous, even "terrifying", that one can get lost in it, or bcecome a ...
01
Apr
I cannot stop myself to sleep in the first part of zazen. How shall I do?
Je pratique zazen depuis deux ans au dojo de Paris, et mon problème est le suivant, je ne peux m'empêcher de dormir pendant la première partie qui précède kinin, alors que j'arrive bien à me concentrer sur la posture pendant la deuxième partie de zazen; je pratique surtout en semaine après le boulot.Comment faire pour remédier à cette ...