tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post7867020147038440398..comments2012-06-21T14:49:11.242-07:00Comments on Buddhafyer: Authentic Suffering and HealthStoneCutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263638528182941648noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-80086022943512087892012-04-02T07:58:28.144-07:002012-04-02T07:58:28.144-07:00So familiar, that last. I work a lot with somethin...So familiar, that last. I work a lot with something Jack Kornfield related about one of his teachers years ago. His teacher said "You Americans, you always want what you don't have, and don't want what you have. Why not just want what you have, and don't want what you don't have? Simple!" Don't want is a hard teacher, especially around health, pain, fear... and sitting with it is work.<br /><br />Fortunately art can be a soothing anodyne, it is work and meditative in its own way, and helps working through issues at a different level. And as you say the main compass and foundation of all of the above is being a net positive influence in the world, which helps keep a sense of orientation no matter how rough the seas get.<br /><br />[I'm still new to this blogging thing, I keep trying to reply but I hit post instead. oh well, everyone just ignore the deleted responses...]StoneCutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263638528182941648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-79119553338764936652012-04-02T07:57:19.002-07:002012-04-02T07:57:19.002-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.StoneCutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263638528182941648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-8389798360434234542012-04-01T10:35:04.072-07:002012-04-01T10:35:04.072-07:00this post resonates with me as health is one of my...this post resonates with me as health is one of my koans. I have learned in the not too distant past to just be with the feelings and sensations in the body and mind. I see my attachment to having good health and yet know there is a razor's edge to walk here. To pursue good health without attachment (that's the trick) so we can practice the Dharma and do our art and be a positive influence in the world, this is a good thing. And yet it is so easy to get sticky fingers, so easy to want to push away the experience of not feeling well. <br /><br />Once when I said to my Zen teacher that maybe I should just give up the attempts to ever feel well, she told me a story of a woman who found something that worked for her after 15 tries. The story was meant to encourage me not to give up.<br /><br />wishing you health!ZenDotStudiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06051368546505731081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-76407974407325571112012-03-27T19:53:04.083-07:002012-03-27T19:53:04.083-07:00Is that from Keep Me In Your Heart A While? I just...Is that from Keep Me In Your Heart A While? I just learned about it today via your link to Dosho's blog. I own You Have to Say Something but it's been a decade since I read it.<br /><br />Yes, Dalai Grandma is forging a path, which inevitably we will follow. And we owe her a great deal for what she shares. May we bear it with one half her dignity and equanimity.<br /><br />Poison oak is so rough! My wife has had two cases, one each of the last two summers, spread all over and took weeks to clear up. Glad to hear you are on the mend. If you ever want to share your remedies we're all ears here. There is some soap she uses religiously after every hike now, but even then she can still get it.<br /><br />I haven't gone into details on the "what happened," was hoping to keep this less about me and more about the general process of healing, Buddhism practice, and art.<br /><br />I may go into it at some point but suffice to say that Ikkyu quote I posted about "mistake after mistake," well that would be my life over the past decade. And the awakening was the wake up call of winding up in the ER more than once recently. Time for a significant overhaul and re-balancing.StoneCutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263638528182941648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-83876846973716827992012-03-27T19:52:32.541-07:002012-03-27T19:52:32.541-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.StoneCutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263638528182941648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667634503350192165.post-15161860040672397772012-03-27T05:12:55.354-07:002012-03-27T05:12:55.354-07:00Really like what Katagiri Roshi had to say, which ...Really like what Katagiri Roshi had to say, which was about a man who he used to see running around a lake he used to walk around. Eventually, this man got cancer and died. Katagiri observed that as hard as we try to be healthy, in the end, we will be "unhealthy." No easy way out. <br /><br />This is something I have to remember, because I read the Dalai Grandma's blog, too, and I am around some very old teachers who are limping around and think: "I'll give up salt. I'll take half portions. I'll drink more water. I'll exercise everyday." and I actually do these things. They make me feel good. But I forget that someday I will not feel "good" and that's a part of being human. <br /><br />I get little glimpses of this, even with a mundane case of poison oak! It kept me up, tore my legs up, made my toes and lips swell, and I thought: Proceed. Follow the schedule, take care of yourself (which i did with about 5 natural remedies! I could make a zine on poison oak!) but proceed, and proceed with joy and enthusiasm, because I've not seen a quarter of what is yet to happen to this body. <br /><br />Humbled and inspired. Thank you for sharing your experience. Did I miss the post where you tell us what happened?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com