... reference points, past confusion and fabrication and into our actual lives. Liberation means freedom from the need to hide from our world and ourselves; it means finding out whom and what this really is, what this world really is."" (Louret, p11) "Buddhadharma, the Teaching of Awakening, is the practice of sitting, walking, breathing, working and speaking with mindfulness and insight. As such ... Buddhadharma is not a religion, a dogma, a skill, a science, an art, or a philosophy. It is the presentation of our own natures. Zen is just this. - (Nishino, p34) True Zen consists ... how to ...

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... born around 563 B.C. (Smith, p.83). He was a prince who became restless with his life and sought understanding of the human suffering he saw around him. The legend of the "man who woke up" is generally as follows adapted from Smith (p. 83-4) When Siddhartha Gautama was born his parents commissioned ... The Evil One was intent to break his concentration and sent many things to interrupt him. His meditation went deeper and deeper until finally he burst the bubble that is the universe and found it restored with "true being" (Smith, p. 86). This was the Great Awakening and thereafter he was...

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... known as samsara. There is a subtle difference between rebirth and reincarnation as defined in Hinduism. There is no escaping dukkha, which loosely means life is suffering and is the first of the Four Noble truths. Because of sanchita karma one can only hope to gain a new physical existence. Rebirth is another essential doctrine in Buddhism and it goes hand in hand ... were preformed to "deliver the souls of the dead"(ch"ao-to wang-hun). The monks would perform rites that would cancel the bad karma of the dead by transferring to their account the good karma accumulated by bodhisattvas a...

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