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Now that the games are done for four more years, I’d like to propose that Zazen be made an event for the next Olympics … Press on arrow for ‘play’NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE TO SEE THE SCREEN OR START BUTTON,PLEASE UPDATE FLASH. SEE HERE

So, we now see that these lines of the Heart Sutra are shorthand for the “Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination“, ruuning from “ignorance” to “old age and death” … … and emptiness breaks the chain. In fact, what “chain“?(Please excuse a few oral “typos” … I keep calling the chain the “12 foot chain” ……

Let’s look at a bit more at the ‘Twelve-fold-Chain‘ … (1) chaos or ignorance (sk: avida), (2) action (karma), (3) consciousness (vijnana), (4) the external world (nama-rupa), (5) the six sense organs (shadayatana), (6) contact (spasha), (7) sensation (vedana), (8) desire (trishna), (9) grasping (upadana), (10) possession (bhava), (11) birth (jeti), and (12) sickness, old…

TODAY (AND TOMORROW) … THE PROMISED TALKS ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT … The Heart Sutra’s talk of “Ignorance”, “Old Age” & “Death”, the human senses and consciousness, alludes to the Buddha’s explanation of the ‘Twelve-fold Chain of Cause & Effect’ (often called the ‘Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination’ or ‘Twelve Causes’) … It describes…
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