Dharma Up Close: An Approach to Study
As a Dharma heir to Ming Zhen Shakya I feel it is imperative of me to share her work with others. Since she is no longer with us in body and mind making her unavailable to speak with you I thought it might be helpful to offer some comments on how to read and listen and sit under the golden waterfall of her offerings. This essay is a brief, very brief approach on one way to soak in Ming Zhen’s Dharma offering. May the Dharma bless you as it has me and many, many others.
What Identity Does the Mind Dwell On?
Yao Xiang Shakya There are preliminaries or what might be called the first rounds of being alive where we learn different identities about who we are. Birth brings us into the world in ignorance where we begin… What Identity Does the Mind Dwell On?
Mu…It’s Mine!
“The storyteller’s claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people happen not just by accident like leaves being blown off a tree by the wind but that there is order and purpose deep down behind them or inside them and that they are leading us not just anywhere but somewhere. The power of stories is that they are telling us that life adds up somehow, that life itself is like a story… it makes us listen to the storyteller with great intensity because in this way all his stories are about us and because it is always possible that he may give us some clue as to what the meaning of our lives is.” Frederick Buechner
Yao Xiang Shakya helps us see in the film, Never Forever a spiritual awakening in modern garb.
