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EVELYN

Being open about beliefs. 9 Replies

Started by EVELYN in Dr. Bonnici's Question on Spiritual Practice. Last reply by Mark Burbank Feb. 21, 2009.

Tony Samara

PEACE BEGINS 3 Replies

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Think body... 5 Replies

Started by Gina Roman in Discussions on Living the Body of Meditation. Last reply by Mark Burbank Jan. 25, 2009.

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Started by Virgilio S. Antonio in Dr. Bonnici's Question on Spiritual Practice. Last reply by Mark Burbank Jan. 12, 2009.

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Tavorn K. Strassburger

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Today is
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The Awakening of Original Faith is Enlightened Life.
Dr. Andrew Shugyo Bonnici

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      I am a 65 year old Humanistic Psychologist, a Buddhist Priest, a Zen Master, and a Minister of Faith Body. Over the last 30 years, it has been my joyful and passionate calling to provide somatic training and growth counseling in Applied Meditation Therapy®, lead Zen meditation practice groups in California and Hawaii, and give public talks and bodymind skill workshops on living meditation as the wisdoming process of everyday life.

       In 1996, I created ZenDoctor.Com to promote greater public awareness of Applied Meditation Psychology and to globally extend my humanistic teachings as a Psychologist and a Zen Roshi to the global Internet community. Also, since the creation of my website, I have been providing Telephone & Web Video Counseling & Training to people worldwide. While working on my book publication, I continue to write articles in Europe and America on spiritual growth, optimum wellness, behavioral wisdom, compassionate action and peak human embodiment.


Purpose of The Community

      As an extension of my worldwide teaching and counseling, I am happy to introduce this spiritual network community where people from all around the world can learn more about living enlightenment and the Way of wisdoming meditation while sharing fellowship, inspiration, insight, and understanding.

      This Online Community is a safe place where you can openly dialogue about your spiritual and meditation life journey. Here, you can support each other by practicing sincerity and authenticity as you express your thoughts and feelings on living meditation, mindfulness, faith body, and the farther reaches of human nature.

      I encourage you to share your experiences, comments, and questions with integrity, humility and beginner's heartmind, for these are the true hallmarks of your Only Moment Body™ wisdoming before attainment or gain.


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      The fundamental purpose of this online community is to provide a contained refuge and a safe haven for spiritual fellowship and honest inner journeying. As such, it is not an appropriate space to market or advertise products or other websites and social networks with embedded audios, videos, photo albums, or rss feed aggregators.

      I appreciate everyone honoring these parameters so that together we can nourish and sustain the deep inner refuge and upright spiritual container that this online community represents.

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If you know anyone who would benefit from membership in our community, I would appreciate you extending them an personal invitation to join.

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Teaching, inspiration and guidance for the beginning of our 2010 journey around the Sun.

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Beginner's Heartmind

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Shoshin is a Japanese term that means 'beginner’'s heartmind'. Shoshin is exactly the heartmind of playfulness, wonder, faithfulness and childlike curiosity. It is exactly this Only Moment Body of simplicity, naturalness and spontaneity. Beginner'’s heartmind rests in the effortless authenticity of stone, bark and earth. Shoshin is the life force of joyful wildness that is exhibited by all young creatures of sea and land. All the Ancients who practiced the original body of meditation have proclaimed this beginner’'s heartmind as truthfully present, immeasurably deep, and endlessly profound. Our sincere intention in living meditation as the Way of the Ancients is to simply be the joyful playfulness, wondrous clarity and profound wisdoming of our original heartmind, our beginner’'s heartmind, that is exactly this Only Moment Body.


When we first dedicate our life to practicing meditation as beginner'’s heartmind, we vow to live this Only Moment Body as the Way of openness, clarity, compassion, and bright wisdoming. To arouse this vow of beginner'’s heartmind is to arouse the deep intention to embody the Way of Only Moment Body and listen to the calling of Vast Wisdoming from within. The constant practice of being this only moment and listening to the Way of Vast Wisdoming is called 'beginner's Way-seeking heartmind'.


Beginner’'s Way-seeking heartmind is not looking to find the Way, but rather confidently being, doing and listening to the Way of Oneness and Vast Wisdoming in this Only Moment Body. As endless beginners, we listen and respond to our deep inner calling so that we may continue to live in accordance with the vast wisdoming of our core Self, our true nature and the unique unfolding of our life moment by moment.


Beginner’'s heartmind means to just be our Only Moment Body while practicing deep listening and felt intimacy with the Oneness of a Vast Wisdoming that is beyond our ego-self and thinking mind, beyond our grasping and pushing away, and beyond the duality of life and death.


When we listen deeply with confidence, clarity and openness to the guidance of Vast Wisdoming and the emergence of our inner calling, we become ever intimate with the three joyful marks of our beginner’s heartmind.


The first clear mark of beginner'’s heartmind manifests as the joyful zazen practice of being this Only Moment Body while molting off self-preoccupation, endless grasping, mental agitation, frantic activity and driven behavior.


The second clear mark of beginner’'s heartmind manifests as the joyful zazen practice of being this Only Moment Body while shedding self-doubt, vanity, defensiveness, ignorance, self-delusion, anxiety and fear.


The third clear mark of beginner’'s heartmind manifests as the joyful practice of satiating all our desires in the silence and stillness of zazen meditation while arising as this Only Moment Body to engage the unfolding of our life journey with passion, vitality, joy and caring for all sentient beings.


These three marks of beginner'’s heartmind help us to live from the compassionate wisdoming of our True Nature while nourishing a wondrous openness, confident readiness and wholehearted presence to meet the challenges of our everyday life with creativity, faith, integrity and courage.



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