dropping off

• If we throw something away, we push it from us. Intention. If we drop off something, we stop holding it

  Dropping Off Heart, Mind and Body June 2007 — Padmafarma

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1. Dropping Off Heart, Mind and Body ●●● June 2007 — Padmafarma

   So the phrase shinjin datsuraku means to drop off heart, mind and body

   athlete throwing away the body · dropping off body and mind · dropping off versus throwing away · losing rather than getting

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2. Bussho 1: Having Buddha-Nature ●●● Summer 2005 — Bussho

   Dropping off is a characteristic of the Universe, and the way to transcend the intellect

   dropping off · dropping off body and mind · losing rather than getting
3. The Life of Master Dogen ●●● June 2005 — Lotus Centre

   Zazen is not getting anything. It's getting rid of everything.

   dropping off body and mind · losing rather than getting
4. Three Teachings from Japan ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenec

   And Dogen says, take them all off during zazen. And then you can put them back on again if you want.

   dropping off body and mind · losing rather than getting
5. Introductions 3: A Middle Without Intention ●●● Summer 2003 — Introductions to Shobogenzo Chapters

   not getting something, not doing something, but stopping getting something, stopping doing something

   dropping off muscular habits · losing rather than getting
6. Bussho 2: This World, Not Heaven ●●● Summer 2005 — Bussho

   if we throw away rather than build up our abilities then we can find freedom, but true freedom is not a permanent state

   judo champion throwing away winning · throwing away our abilities
7. Bussho 1: Names and Reality ●●● Winter 2005 — Bussho

   Master Dogen talks about Zazen as “the body and mind dropping off”.

   dropping off body and mind · losing rather than getting
8. MMK 5: Relinquishing All Views ●●● Summer 2008 — Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika

   This suggests that all views are constructs, and dharma or reality is that which is left when all our views cease

   letting go of viewpoints · throwing a book at the teacher
9. Bussho 2: Without a Concept of Buddha-Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Bussho

   It’s not something you get, it’s something which appears when you get rid of other things.

   losing rather than getting
10. Right and Wrong in Action ●●● June 2006 — Padmafarma

    zazen is not a practice to get something. It's a practice to lose something.

    losing rather than getting
11. Western Buddhism and Hierarchy ●●● February 2009 — Cholín

    in order to see what is real in life, we need to lose all the things with which we cover up reality

    losing rather than getting
12. Prajñā: Deciding Before Thinking ●●● July 2021 — Skalní fara

    every moment, let go, because the next moment the mountain will look different

    letting go of viewpoints
13. Zazen Is Not Meditation ●●● July 2021 — Skalní fara

    Dogen calls this dropping off body. He didn't have the language. Dropping off body means releasing the stress, the physical stress in our muscles.

    dropping off body as releasing stress · losing rather than getting
14. The Relation Between the Autonomic Nervous System and Buddhism ●●●

    The state in Zazen is called Shinjin Datsuraku, which means, “dropping body and mind off.”

    dropping off body and mind · balance felt as plus/minus zero
15. Fukan-zazengi ●●● Shobogenzo

    Body and mind will naturally fall away, and the original features will manifest themselves before us.

    dropping off body and mind
16. Bendōwa ●●● Shobogenzo

    Just sit and get the state which is free of body and mind

    dropping off body and mind
17. Genjō-kōan ●●● Shobogenzo

    To be experienced by the myriad dharmas is to let our own body-and-mind, and the body-and-mind of the external world, fall away.

    dropping off body and mind
18. Shoji ●●● Shobogenzo

    let go of our own body and our own mind and throw them into the house of buddha

    house of buddha
19. Genjo-koan 2: Delusion and Self-Image ●●● Summer 2002 — Genjo-koan

    to let our body-and-mind fall away is a description he uses in other places in the Shobogenzo to describe the state in Zazen

    dropping off body and mind
20. Bussho 1: Fully Manifesting Existence ●●● Summer 2004 — Bussho

    dropping it off, so we're training to un-train ourselves, we're un-training

    training to un-train
21. Bussho 3: Beyond the Process View ●●● Summer 2004 — Bussho

    To grasp real knowing and understanding means to throw everything away, stop thinking

    grasping as throwing away
22. Uji 1: Time Is the Present ●●● Winter 2004 — Uji

    We need both to throw it away, and to discuss and to write and to think about it

    throwing away and discussing
23. Uji 5: Words and Reality ●●● Winter 2004 — Uji

    Dogen says dropping off body and mind, so whenever we drop off body and mind we’re in the balanced state.

    dropping off body and mind
24. Buddhism Beyond Robes and Incense ●●● June 2006 — Padmafarma

    when we sit in zazen, our muscles slowly drop off tension.

    dropping off body as releasing stress
25. Shoaku Makusa 3: Balance and Not Doing Wrong ●●● Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusa

    So when Master Dogen talks about ‘dropping off body and mind’ we can include in that ‘dropping off all the tensions in our body’.

    dropping off body as releasing stress
26. The Map in Our Head ●●● May 2012 — Nová Dedinka

    Drop off your body, drop off your mind means deconstruct your picture.

    dropping off body and mind
27. Dogen’s Teaching as a Way of Living ●●● September 2013 — Banský Studenec

    So we say that practising meditation is taking things away, or dropping things off

    losing rather than getting
28. One Real Teacher and Simplicity ●●● August 2014 — Banský Studenec

    So for four or five years in Japan, I had a terrible time to throw away my point of view.

    letting go of viewpoints
29. Dojo and Home, Sacred and Ordinary ●●● September 2015 — Banský Studenec

    Dogen says zazen is dropping off. And dropping off means taking off your clothes, or getting rid of things.

    losing rather than getting
30. One Moon, Two Moons ●●●

    He calls this state action and describes it as dropping off body and mind.

    dropping off body and mind
31. Bussho ●●● Shobogenzo

    these characters appear in Master Tendo Nyojo’s often-quoted words that zazen is getting rid of body and mind.

    dropping off body and mind
32. Zazen According to Sawaki ●●● Summer 2004 — Yoko Luetchford

    if you are an eighty year-old person, you should be an eighty year-old person fully, dropping off mind and body.

    dropping off body and mind
33. Bussho 5: Our Fundamental Nature ●●● Winter 2005 — Bussho

    When we practice Zazen, because we drop off all pretensions, all ideas, we sit just as we are.

    losing rather than getting
34. Buddhism Free from ‘Buddhism’ ●●● September 2009 — Earth Spirit

    we release them and feel the relief. Gradually we drop off tensions and that is a kind of movement.

    dropping off body as releasing stress
35. Kodo Sawaki and Concrete Teaching ●●● August 2011 — Dibbavana

    To study Buddhism is to study losing. Shakyamuni Buddha is a good example.

    losing rather than getting
36. Action and Result, Living in the Present ●●● May 2014 — Banská Štiavnica

    slowly these tensions will drop away, in the shoulders, in the arms, and so on.

    dropping off body as releasing stress
37. Understanding the Shobogenzo ●●●

    is to let our own body and mind, and the body and mind of the external world, fall away.

    dropping off body and mind

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