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Clues to the meaning of Zen

Because Zen is so hard to explain here are some quotations that may help you get an idea of it:

  • Not thinking about anything is Zen
  • The essence of Zen Buddhism is achieving enlightenment by seeing one’s original mind (or original nature) directly; without the intervention of the intellect.
  • Zen is big on intuitive understanding, on just ‘getting it’, and not so hot on philosophizing.
  • Zen is concerned with what actually is rather than what we think or feel about what is.
  • Zen is concerned with things as they are, without trying to interpret them.
  • Zen points to something before thinking, before all your ideas.
  • The key to Buddhahood in Zen is simply self-knowledge.
  • To be a human being is to be a Buddha. Buddha nature is just another name for human nature – true human nature.
  • Zen is simply to be completely alive.
  • Zen is short for Zen Buddhism. It is sometimes called a religion and sometimes called a philosophy. Choose whichever term you prefer; it simply doesn’t matter.
  • Zen is not a philosophy or a religion.
  • Zen tries to free the mind from the slavery of words and the constriction of logic.
  • Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
  • Zen is meditation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/subdivisions/zen_1.shtml

Buddhism core value

Reincarnation, the individual may recur repeatedly, in rebirth, does not necessarily return to earth as the same entity.

Like a leaf falling from a tree, a new leaf will replace it, it is similar, but not the same leaf.
Gautama Buddha (Buddha means enlightened one), 6th B.C, no god and the teachings are aimed at liberate sentient beings from suffering.

The three universal truths
The four noble truths
The noble eightfold path

The three universal truths

  • Nothing is lost in the universe –
  • Everything changes
  • The law of cause and effect

“Karma, teaches the responsibility for unskillful/skillful actions is borne by who commits them […] Wander and help, look after each other. After many cycles: if releases attachment to desire/self, state of liberation/freedom, Nirvana”

The three training/practices

  • Sila, virtue, good conduct, morality. Equality of all living entities.
  • Samadhi, concentration, meditation, mental development. Path to wisdom, personal freedom, strengthens and control our mind.
  • Prajna, discernment, insight, wisdom, enlightenment. Heart of Buddhism (pure and calm)

(Eightfold path principles)

The four noble truths

  • Dukkha, suffering exists
  • Samudaya, cause to suffering
  • Nirodha, an end to suffering
  • Magga, end suffering, follow eightfold path

The five precepts

  • Do not kill
  • Do not steel
  • Do not lie
  • Do not misuse sex
  • Do not consume alcohol or drugs

Monastic life

  • Taking untimely meals
  • Dancing, singing, music, watching grotesque mime
  • Use of garlands, perfumes and personal adornment
  • Use of high seats
  • Accepting gold or silver

Eightfold path

  • Panna, discernment, wisdom
  • Right understanding
  • Right thinking
  • Sila, virtue, morality
  • Right speech
  • Right action
  • Right livelihood
  • Samadhi, concentration, meditation
  • Right effort
  • Right mindfullness
  • Right concentration

https://www.unhcr.org/50be10cb9.pdf

Good to find out or repeat

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” –Earl Nightingale

[…] on a single act.
There’s a Japanese term, “ichigyo-zammai,” that basically means full concentration on a single act.

The Practice of One Thing at a Time
https://zenhabits.net/ichigyo-zammai/

Muda, wastfulness, Mura, uneven, Muri, overburden, The Three Wastes

https://www.kaizen-news.com/muda-mura-and-muri-the-three-wastes/

[…] remember important information for survival, […] we must persuade our brains that the information is worth remembering and thus […].

Spaced Repetition Hermann Ebbinghaus from history.

It is an retrieval problem, it is there but you cannot find it. Library analogy, the index or catalog needs maintenance in order to be useful. But how much maintenance to do..

Spaced Repetition Time Intervals, Piotr Wozniak

1 rep = day 1
2 rep = 7 days
3 rep = 16 days
4 rep = 35 days
But if T-7 then 1, 2 or 3 and 5 or 6

How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition

How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition

Long term: Exercise, remove stress, good diet.

Super Mario effect, re frame challenges to “game” analogy.
Focus on the princess and not the pits, to stick with a task and learn more.
Want to do it, fun to do it.

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