Please come join us to discuss chapter 3 of the book immediately following Zazen.

The Three topics are Mistakes in Practice, Limiting our  Activity, and Study Ourselves.

Mistakes in Practice

Limiting our activity

What ways have you limited your activity?
Before sitting or after sitting?

“Our practice is for everyone. Usually when some one believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. But our way is not like this. In our way the point of the sharp angle is always towards ourselves, not away from ourselves.

So there is no need to worry about the difference between Buddhism and the religion you may believe in.”

What is the sharp angle for you?

What mistakes have you seen in your own practice?

Study ourselves

How do you study yourself? Explain

He says it’s impossible to study ourselves without some teachings. Please elaborate on teachings that have helped you study yourself.

Through the teaching we may understand our human nature. But the teaching is not we ourselves; it is some explanation of ourselves. So if you are attached to the teaching, or to the teacher, that is a big mistake.