Mazu Daoyi
Mazu Daoyi was a Chinese monk who taught during the Tang Dynasty and invented several teaching techniques that would later become indispensable to many schools of Zen. While his monastery was one of many in Southern China, and his doctrine was generally in line with existing theory, Mazu answered an important practical question facing Zen in the 8th century and set a standard many abbots have striven to reach. Hoping to help students overcome the rational part of their minds that often got in the way of enlightenment, Mazu developed shock tactics. He would shout at students, call their names as they left rooms, knock them to the ground, and reply to their questions with nonsensical retorts in hopes of startling them out of their typical mode of consciousness. By showing students that reality was right in front of them and that it had no obligation to satisfy their inquiring, rational minds, he hoped to give them a taste of enlightenment--or dirt, as it sometimes ended up being.

Dogen
The founder of the Soto school of Japanese Zen, Dogen has been praised as one of the greatest thinkers in Japanese history. Rejecting an aristocratic life to become a monk, he was ordained at the age of 13. Despite learning from many leading figures in 13th-century Japan, he was unsatisfied with Japanese Buddhism as it existed at the time and sought new teachers in China. Dogen wandered China looking for a teacher and eventually found one in Tiantóng Rújìng. Like many other great Zen masters, Rujing emphasized meditation, which Dogen took to heart. After reaching enlightenment while studying under Rujing, Dogen returned to Japan to start his own school. He favored shikantaza, a meditation where the sitter is aware of their thoughts but does not interact with them. Doctrinally, he argued for the unity of practice and enlightenment itself, the universality of Buddha-nature, and the combined internal and external nature of virtue. He suggests that anything can be meditative, that those who achieved seemingly sudden enlightenment were practicing meditation all the time, and that this makes meditation all the more important.

Ikkyu Sojun
Studying under a difficult abbot in an isolated temple near a lake, Ikkyu meditated at night in a boat. He reached enlightenment suddenly at age 26 after being surprised by a crow. At 46, he was invited to lead a temple, but grew sick of it in a mere ten days. In a resignation poem, he noted that more Zen could be found in meat, wine, and sex than in the monastery. He would know, given that he regularly broke his monastic vows to indulge in all three and regularly wrote against celibacy. Disturbed by the commercialization, political intrigue, and general failings of the monastery, he left to wander Japan. He spent the next several decades as a vagabond. This allowed him to interact with people from all levels of Japanese society, write poems critiquing the focus given to poetry in monasteries, and compose prose on Buddhist philosophy. A record of his (mis)adventures can be found in his poetry and in a number of folk tales. He is also remembered for helping to inspire the Zen tea ceremony, his excellent calligraphy, and several ink paintings. His often adult-rated poems are also highly regarded, if not widely read.

Thích Nhat Hanh
A student of the Thien school, the Vietnamese interpretation of Zen, Thích Nhat Hanh was perhaps the second most famous Buddhist monk of the 20th century, after the Dali Lama. Entering a monastery at the age of 16, Nh?t H?nh was an active man and an eager learner. He left his first Buddhist academy because he felt it did not offer enough coverage of modern, secular subjects. His calls for unifying the various Buddhist organizations in South Vietnam drew the ire of his monastic superiors. His calls for peace led to the South Vietnamese government accusing him of being a communist and of committing treason. His teachings form the basis of the Plum Village tradition, which combines ideas from several Buddhist schools and highly emphasizes mindfulness practice. Modern mindfulness practice owes a debt to his 1975 book The Miracle of Mindfulness. He is also considered the inspiration for "engaged Buddhism," a term he coined. Engaged Buddhism aims to combine Buddhist practice with social action on many issues. It is increasingly popular, and the Dali Lama has commented favorably on it.

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This is an ancient technique of using the imagination to manifest or actualize a desired state or circumstance. The bridge, if you will, from the imagination to the temporal world is our ability to FEEL. What we feel is what manifests as our experience--not the other way around. We are not feeling as a result of our experience. We are experiencing as a result of what we feel. It's this confusion that blocks and confuses all of us incarnees down here on Planet Rock. By understanding this basic concept, it's then a simple matter of consciously FEELING what you want to experience. And in short order, it WILL come to pass. This is because we've already started the motion of sub-atomic particle-waves and force fields necessary to bring whatever it is to physical manifestation by our feeling. There is time in there, the amount depending on the depth and consistency of feeling. And that is where the skill comes in. Feeling prayer is a skill, requiring mindfulness, imagination and desire. All of those things most of us have been mis-informed as to how to use, even though they are our most powerful standard equipment. -- From 25 No Cost Health & Healing Hacks by Boyd Martin)

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Pain Is Love With Nowhere To Go

The author described the meaning of yoga as "Union with the Divine", declaring that the serious practitioner, with commitment and proper discipline, could attain high spiritual states and at some point achieve enlightenment. These were brand new concepts to me, yet seemed oddly familiar.

It wasn't until the age of 50 that I actually began a formal yoga training, diving headlong into Bikram Yoga (otherwise known as "hot yoga") for eight years as a final "hail Mary" to resolve chronic lower back pain from disc degeneration. It took about a year of daily practice, but it worked to permanently fix my back. I continued with the practice and achieved other benefits that have served me well.

One aspect of doing the asanas was how to respond to pain during the movements. The poses are designed to find blocked or constricted energy pathways in the body, and boy, did I have a lot of those! The instructors emphasized and reminded the class frequently that the way through the pain was the breath. Breathe through the pain to release it from the body. Although this was a useful and necessary teaching, it wasn't until years after my discipleship that I came to realize that the breath was only half the equation of pain resolution.

The definition of yoga is "union with God", and that union is achieved through mindfulness, focus and an offering of the sensations, discomforts and pains to Source/God/Creator. This energetic "yolk" provides a pathway for these "undivine" experiences to find their purpose and role in the Universal Oneness. Once given as an offering to Source, the separation that pain represents is removed in the light of the new creations made possible by that offering--a recycling of sorts by the Creator to serve in the infinite expansion of Creation.

Pain "hurts" because the body reacts this way to energy that has no direction or purpose. Once this energy is given direction and purpose, it finds its home in the fabric of Oneness that is Universal Creation.

For most of us, the first reaction to pain is usually to "get rid of it", and the sooner the better, but this mindless knee-jerk reaction only serves to further isolate the energies trying so hard to find their place in Universal Oneness.

As quantum living has shown us, everything is energy, and that energy is Love--the creative power manifested by Source/Creator/God. Love is the purpose of all action. Destruction, suffering, pain and darkness are simply states of love precipitating a new creation. Human attachments and judgments make up the illusion of pain and destruction when we are unwilling or unable to understand the bigger picture of love at work on a greater more glorious creation.

Disease, aging and death in the human body could be seen as a build up of energies with no expression, banging around our DNA and regulatory systems like a bull in a china shop, keeping the body in defense mode, unable to keep up with repair and restoration of the damage. The resulting pains and discomforts should have us mindfully embracing these random, lost energies and making a love offering of them to Source/God/Creator.

As we have all experienced recently, the "wake up call" by Team Dark has served the love creation of humanity awakening from its hypnotized slumber of normalcy to answer the clarion call of a new creation. As darkness falls away and the light dawns within us, we are inspired to make love offerings from our heart to repair and restore Mother Earth to her former glory as the grand, conscious, loving matriarch of love in action among all forms of life.

The pain and suffering we have all endured spurs us on to act out of love and compassion for our fellows, giving meaning and place to the pain in the creation of that Kingdom of Heaven we've held for so long in our hearts. It is now released, active and expanding, bringing peace and prosperity to all nations forever.

To your quantum health,

Boyd Martin
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