jjhalloween ([info]jjhalloween) wrote,
@ 2008-12-03 22:51:00
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"To learn to be always in a state of meditation means never to let your vital energy wane. You would never allow it to do so if it were certain that you were to die tomorrow. It wanes because you forget about death. Grit your teeth, fix your gaze, and observe death at this moment. You have to feel it so strongly that is seems as if it’s attacking you. Fearless energy comes from this. At this moment death is right before your eyes. It’s not something you can afford to neglect."

- Suzuki Shosan (1579-1655)

Courtesy of [info]daily_zen.

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re: vital energy
(Anonymous)
2008-12-08 11:48 pm UTC (link)
Master Shangyen sez that in order to preserve your vital energy one must practice celibacy and preserve the vital juice's. Of course the gf wont be too crazy about it. As for yourself, when the pain of self denial becomes so strong that the organism must self destruct, fearlessness in death will be your cheap bride.

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Re: vital energy
[info]jjhalloween
2008-12-10 06:03 am UTC (link)
LOL. Mystical nonsense. Reminds me of Dr. Strangelove - a lot of concern over "our precious bodily fluids."

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