Keith108

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  1. Haiku Chain

    Out in the desert Knots on a monks prayer rope Moved in solitude
  2. Spotting a fake master

    I would start with someone claiming enlightenment as an easy red flag. The best way I think though, is to observe the community around the master, and trust your intuition. 🙏
  3. Dao Bums (here i am)

    No, “they” don’t all love their guns. I hate guns. Guns are a cancer of society. Before anyone @‘s me, I am a former US Army Infantry Sergeant, and an expert marksmen, and have used all kinds of weapons.
  4. Uploading pics

    Uh-oh… 🤪
  5. Haiku Chain

    Poets do inspire. A frog jumps in old pond, plop! Basho waking up.
  6. Haiku Chain

    Is there life on Mars? Or, maybe even the Moon Look! Ryokan's window.
  7. Moon Tide analogy to Qi

    I had the same though!
  8. The Idiots Way

    Already appeared. ❤️🙏
  9. Mantras

    My tradition (Buddhist) uses mantra as an object of focus for meditation, and mantras are embedded in the chants we do. So maybe, a little of both. For instance, at the end of the Heart Sutra, the mantra "gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha" is repeated three times. I know someone who uses this mantra for practice. My son uses the Great Dharani , which is pretty common among mantra practitioners in my tradition. The most common is kwan seum bosal (Guanyin, Kannon), which is said to help with excessive thinking. Personally, I don't practice that way, but it's a really common method. _/|\_
  10. Mantras

    I suppose the obvious answer is not everything has a rational explanation. One my favorite expressions about practice, and applies here I would think, is to just practice and see what happens.
  11. Covid, Nitric Oxide and Humming

    Today I managed to get through all 108 prostrations I do daily with strictly nasal breathing. It's 10-15 minutes of pretty strenuous effort, so that was a good development. I notice if I do them later in the day, it's all huffing and puffing. 🤪 If you win the morning, you win the day!
  12. Haiku Chain

    Who’s to say what’s real? Winter’s cold, fireplace crackling Just now, Yin and Yang
  13. the need to know

    I think this one is Stephen Mitchell’s translation. Just read it this morning. 🙏
  14. the need to know

    I love reading different translations of source materials. This one is quite wonderful. 🙏
  15. Haiku Chain

    This is fun! By kintsugi gold The begging bowl is repaired Now, where did it go?
  16. Haiku Chain

    Ah, very cool! Sorry, won’t happen again. 🙏
  17. Personal Practice Discussion Thread Request

    Thank you! _/|\_
  18. Personal Practice Discussion Thread Request

    Hello! I would like to request permission to post a ppl. Thanks, Keith 🙏
  19. Haiku Chain

    Morning sitting Winter winds, cold, fierce pines swaying back and forth, whoosh! Inside, incense burns 🙏
  20. Is Buddhism a complete path?

    You were saying?
  21. Is this forum still about Taoism...?

    The Japanese term is Kensho.
  22. Is this forum still about Taoism...?

    The Zen section at Dharmawheel is a ghost town. Vajra and sutra adherents are very active. Sound like the same situation.
  23. Is this forum still about Taoism...?

    Ah, interesting. That's a bit of taboo in Zen. I have enjoyed, and learned some things, going over some of the old threads.
  24. Covid, Nitric Oxide and Humming

    Yes, apparently sleeping on the right side is preferable. Fortunately, that's the side I like to sleep on, in more or less a fetal position. Very happy to hear you didn't suffocate yourself! _/|\_