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**wgX44EEn** · 03-26-2011, 09:43 PM

Hi peen,

Yes, you are right, some of the suttas are difficult for me too. My main practice is Zazen, the meditation of the Soto Zen school. Zen covers the main aspect of my understanding and practice also. Here I discovered the importance of studding the suttas and some Theravada teachers that comment them and make them more understandable. The main teaching for me has been the Four Noble Truths. In some Buddhist circles they are thought as just a beginners teaching but in my personal experience it has been the main and central aspect of my practice and realization. I think this business is about understanding the origin and cessation of dukkha states of mind with the aid of a clear view about mind and things. Zen has developed many wonderful and very practical tools so to develop this skill like the silent learning that is a kind of understanding through insight more than through intellectual discourse.

03-26-2011, 09:43 PM	#4
wgX44EEn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 398 Senior Member	Hi peen, Yes, you are right, some of the suttas are difficult for me too. My main practice is Zazen, the meditation of the Soto Zen school. Zen covers the main aspect of my understanding and practice also. Here I discovered the importance of studding the suttas and some Theravada teachers that comment them and make them more understandable. The main teaching for me has been the Four Noble Truths. In some Buddhist circles they are thought as just a beginners teaching but in my personal experience it has been the main and central aspect of my practice and realization. I think this business is about understanding the origin and cessation of dukkha states of mind with the aid of a clear view about mind and things. Zen has developed many wonderful and very practical tools so to develop this skill like the silent learning that is a kind of understanding through insight more than through intellectual discourse.
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