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ON LEAVING HOME and WORDS ABOUT RITUAL STUFF
First I hope all of you reading this show up at my talk/book signing at Bodhi Tree Books in Los Angeles tomorrow March 12th, 2009 at 7pm. The address is: 8585 Melrose Ave. West Hollywood, CA 90026. It's free and open to the public. Be there or be square! Seriously. At this Buddhist bookstore it would be nice to see a Buddhist author get the kind of massive audience they get for crystal gazers and astro-hypno past-life regression acts.
Also, I'll be at the Dharma Punx place in Hollywood leading zazen and talking on Sunday March 15th at 11am (I'm one of the "and others," thanks...). This will be a monthly thing. Although I won't be there for the April one and I'm not 100% sure about May, my Dharma Brother Kevin Bortolin will lead the ones I can't make it to. The address is 4300 Melrose (between Heliotrope and Vermont) Los Angeles, CA 90029.
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It bugs me that Gautama Buddha left his family. The message I get from your books (and other Zen writing) is that you don't need to run away to find enlightenment, the truth, or whatever. If you happen to be a prince with a wife and child, those circumstances are not obstacles to your practice -- they are your practice. Also, you shouldn't hurt or neglect the people and things in your life to pursue some abstract goal. It seems like this part of the historical Buddha's story is inconsistent with these principles. The way the story is usually told, I get the impression that he wouldn't have been able to find enlightenment if he hadn't left his family -- in other words, having a family life really was an obstacle to his practice. I've also heard stories of others who left their families to join his original group. So here's the question: How do you think one should interpret the fact that the historical Buddha and others in his group left their families? Also, what would you say to someone today who wanted to leave his or her spouse and children in order to devote more time to sitting?
This is a tough question to answer adequately. Let me tell you a story first. When I took the Buddhist Precepts from Nishijima Roshi, he didn't require me to shave my head. But later on I decided it might be useful and expedient to do the ceremony through the Soto-shu just so my name would be on the books there. The Soto-shu requires you to shave your head for the ceremony. So I did.
Afterward I needed to explain to friends and co-workers why I suddenly looked like a skinny version of Curly from the Three Stooges. I still lived in Japan at this time. So I told them I did 出家 (pronounced "shukke" -- shoe-kay). The 2 Chinese characters used to spell this word out mean "leave home."
But I hadn't left home, in the literal sense. I lived in the same house with the same wife and had the same job as before. This is not at all uncommon.
OK. So there was this Chinese-style vegetarian restaurant I used to go to a lot near my house that was run by a Taiwanese woman who was a devout follower of some sort of esoteric Buddhist sect. She asked about my shaved head and I told her I'd done shukke. She turned red in the face and steam shot out of her ears. "You haven't done shukke!! It's just for show!!! Japanese Buddhists don't know anything about real shukke!!!!"
Then she brought out this scrap book full of photos of the monks in her sect with horribly deformed people, apparently helping them do stuff. The photos seemed designed to emphasize the various deformities of the people they were helping in sharp focused, brightly lit, colorful graphic detail, almost like hardcore porn does with genitalia. "This is real shukke!!!!!" she shouted.
While I had to admire those monks for their charitable work, the woman at the restaurant's attitude toward that work showed me there was some kind of problem there. This incident has somewhat colored my attitude toward so-called "engaged Buddhism" ever since. But that's a whole 'nother subject.
To me leaving home is more of an attitude than a description of a specific act. The monks she showed me photos of had indeed left home in a literal sense. But I wondered if they'd really left home at all. Of course, I didn't know them, so I can't say. But her attitude toward them was based on a very strong attachment to a specific (and very common) way of viewing the world. I wondered where she'd received that attitude.
There's certainly a basis of truth in the stories we hear about Buddha and his earliest followers. But things might not have been like we imagine they were. In the days when living your whole life in the same house with an extended family was the norm, "leaving home" could mean moving to your own place three blocks away. In that sense, almost all of us these days "leave home."
The story has come down to us in its present form to emphasize Buddha's commitment to pursuing the truth. "Leaving home," to me, means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society (home) tells you is important. Even if your mom tells you the most important thing is to marry a doctor and live on a hill with a car the neighbors will envy, you need to be able to reject that and look for what's real.
But that doesn't mean running away. Running away is futile. Even if you run very far away from home to a remote mountain monastery, as long as you carry the same attitude you always had you'll never truly get away. You'll just end up transferring all the stuff from home onto the other people in the monastery.
People of today who want to dump their spouses and kids to run off to the mountains ought to examine themselves and their motivations very, very carefully. Lots of people run away from responsibilities to "find themselves." But not so many of them have a real commitment to the truth. It would be better to find the truth in the life you're living, with the responsibilities you've already accepted. Responsibilities have a way of finding you even if you run away from them.
In your book you talk about how it is important for Buddhist practice to be religious, even if it is not "spiritual". This makes sense to me but I live in a state where the only zen center is run by a guy who believes his group therapy technique can give people enlightenment in a few hours-- if not faster-- and I don't have a lot of money for traveling this year and so I am wondering if there is something I should be doing differently to make my meditation practice more specifically Buddhist. Right now I sit each morning and evening. At the end of each meditation period I recite a version of the Bodhisattva Vow. Reciting the vow is something I only began to do recently and it does seem to add something to the meditation period. Is there some other things I could be doing to make the practice more "religious" in a positive way?
Do I say Buddhist practice should be religious? Man, I never know what the Hell I say sometimes!
I guess maybe you're referring to the idea of sitting with a group or doing some of the ceremonial stuff. I do believe the ceremonial or ritual type stuff is important. But I think you don't need a whole lot of it.
Last Saturday someone asked the purpose of the chanting we do (we chant the Heart Sutra and the Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo and do prostrations). I said, "Entertainment." Group chanting really only serves the purpose of providing entertainment and acting as a group bonding ritual. It's probably a slightly better form of entertainment than trolling for YouTube videos of drunk college girls making out. But it's still entertainment.
I think a home-based practice is fine. Me, I do my sitting at home, and don't neglect the bows to the cushion and away from it before and after sitting. Recently I've been chanting the "Five Reflections" meal chant before breakfast. My teacher chants this before every meal even if it's cold take-out from the local convenience store. He also chants the verse in praise of the Buddhist robe before putting his robe on prior to doing zazen. Reciting the Bodhisattva vows is nice too. These kinds of things kind of reorient your mind toward practice in a concrete way.
But the core practice is always zazen. That's the one you should never do without.
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30 comments:
- Jogeshwar said...
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- December 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
wow what a soothing pic- i loved it.
Gong Li- nice name ,the name adds to 13 - meaning "change" - numerologically speaking.
I read your article in sunday times i felt relief reading the article, after the rape incident the papers were flooded with what to do ,what not to do ....how to protect yourself etc..all that really made me think ...is it a curse to be a girl...you are right ,to live in fear is definetely not the way to live.i cut the heading of your article and put in my dream journal(my vision board) told myself this is the way better to live well than live in fear.
i really loved your article because when we say ""just in case" we actually attract such situations(like for ex- iam saving for the rainy day...and then the rainy day comes...but by repeatedly saying so we call upon us so its best to live with out fear).
for this article a sweet hug to you dear DE for making me realise not to live in fear and fight for that which is my basic right...the right to freedom!
- December 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
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- December 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM
- RAJ47 said...
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To top it delhipolice apologise on twitter for lathicharge on innocents????????????????
This is INDIA.
- December 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Pooja Sharma Rao said...
I agree that this process has again become the one that puts the onus on the oppressed to save herself from being oppressed.
I seriously believe that the solution lies in homes and education system which raises men who instill the confidence in women that they are safe and free to do whatever they want to do.
- December 25, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- anisji said...
With all due appreciation for the "safe" conditions you seek for women...in which country on earth do you find them?
- December 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- Divya Virmani said...
Mrs. De, I read your article on TOI and completely agreed with it. However, when I started to think about it deeply, I kinda felt that our country is not ready for this kind of attitude from girls. I mean, I strongly believe that girls should keep some sort of weapon with them at all times to save themselves. Because this country will not get changed overnight; it's good to see that the youth is so agitated to bring change in their cities and they are fighting for it but still these things will take some time to go into affect. Until then, guys would continue to harass, rape, and torture girls.
Look at how many rape cases happened post the delhi gang rape? It's just ridiculous to see that men have absolutely no fear in them. After such a big case which reached international news, these savages are still out raping girls... Unbelievable!
So, lets continue to speak up about these cases and make sure that this doesn't go unnoticed and the gov't is forced to come up with stricter rules and punishments for the culprits!
- December 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM
- sanjay yadav said...
I have read your article in the SUNDAY TIMES,i fully agree with you;
there is no need to woman to carry pepper spray or master any martial art;what provokes a man to rape is to prove his dominance over a lady or his desire for sexual gratification. I don't think in Delhi's case government can do other thing than punishing or passing certain rules and regulation,by this we are just delaying another rape. In my opinion the root cause of this heinous crime lies in the loss of our moral values and if we want to make change then first of all that change we should bring in our self (here i am talking about male), male should change his angle of looking at females; whatever a lady wants to wear is her choice i have nothing to do with it and here it's my responsibility to change my view and to look at her respectfully.A government rule can not change a man.
Change should come from inside in every men, to look at every woman with respect.
- December 26, 2012 at 11:38 PM
- ausaf malik said...
I am agree with your article.it must not be done in the technical era where all having same rights.
women are also working well in each n every field.
Now, there are multiple ways to earn online using computer. many girls are earning good with this method. want to know more..
- December 27, 2012 at 8:50 AM
- Venkat Chari said...
Very great Shobhaji! You need not carry chilli powder with you nor advise your daughters to do so. We must not teach fear to our children. They should be bold enough to face the situation as it arises. I still remember one such incident when I had to fight with a big monkey when we were living in Varanasi some ten years back. I was stepping down the stair case along with my wife and suddenly a big monkey came at the turning. My wife was very much afraid, and the monkey was getting ready to sprang on us. I didn't know what to do. We had nothing in our hands to protect us. And no body was there to call for help. Spontaneously I got bold and as soon as the monkey sprang upon us, I hit it with my hand so forcely that it got bewildered. Even then, it tried to pounce upon me, but I continued hitting it with my bare hand and made it to run away from us. Then we got down and went away. Even though I got some minor scratches, I wondered how I got so much courage. So, what I tell is, that we must not teach fear complex to our children or any body. You are great in this attitude.
- December 27, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Satish Ashtaputre said...
The real culprits behind Delhi rapists are our netas only.Nowadays people don't fear about the laws just like these netas.The crux of the issue lies in 'Yatha Raja Tatha Praja'! so,we need solid reforms in our election system & also in the overall governance of this great,ancient nation.
- December 27, 2012 at 7:42 PM
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- December 27, 2012 at 9:29 PM
- meetu said...
Only swift & sure solution to this kind of outrage is death penalty...no less !
These cowards & sickos will only be deterred when they see other sickos getting their nooses on the fast track
- December 28, 2012 at 1:51 AM
- M Ramaswamy said...
i think this public data-base for convicted rapists is a dashed good idea and will make every potential rapist more wary of getting caught..nothing like the fear of being 'exposed' in india!
let them scurry back to their underworld!
- December 28, 2012 at 1:07 PM
- Anil Kumar said...
Bollywood sluts started this trend of making Indian woman a sexual commodity. It started with Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Some Chopra and some other bullshit from1994 onwards. The trend was continued by Rohtak ki raand Mallika Sherawat, Kapoor khandan ki kati naak - Kareena kapoor and so on. All these sluts gave kissing scenes, shook their booty and gave sexcual scenes which earlier used to be limited to A grade movies and in theater.
These bajaaru scenes which used to stay in movies were shown repeatedly on TV thousands of time. If some family is watching Ramayana with his kids - chances are some slut will come up during advertisement or a cheap item song or cheap comedy dialogue with sexual meanings or big brother with bed scenes will enter into you drawing room and you will run for remote control to keep it away from your kids - if you have some values.
The fruits of labour done by bollywood/ TV media/ print media are coming out now and Indians are getting taste of it now.
I wrote number of comments for last 5 years on Ms Shobha De's blog and pleading with her not to promote this culture as it will bite the POORS of this country very hard as they dont have the luxury of having a car or driver or live in gated community. If she remembers - I told her that this so called freedom of woman will destroy India and make Indian woman's situation similar to the bitch followed by 5-6 dogs during mating season. The results are out there for everyone to see.
Aamir Khan and his 2nd or 3rd "rakhail" happily approved a song "Bossdiki" and Ms Shobha De openely endorsed the desi gaali in movies. If you spread vulgarity and bad things - these are very easy to adopt by young generation and results can be seen.
Similarly this gay culture recognition will destory poor boys since the data show that gay people target young boys and there are plenty of poor indian boys roaming on the streets.
The MEDIA feeds on both fronts. It first shows woman as commodity 24X7 and helps creating a society without values and when rape happens then shows the victim story 24X7. Good TRP's are guaranteed.
The Times now which is on the forefront of gang-rape victim's story. While TimesofIndia's front page is showing a bollywood star in compromising position with a bollywood star under the title "12 bold scenes of 2012".
It took only 10 years for Indians to shed their original identity and to go to any extent and remove their clothes for money.
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- December 28, 2012 at 9:39 PM
- Unknown said...
Sheila Dixit blamed influx of people in Delhi from other states for problem yesterday.
While her party has allowed hundreds of colonies to come up illegally in Delhi in last decade or so. These colonies dont have parks, schools, severage facilities and become PERMANENT hell for centuries for people living there. But her government has now happily agreed to regularize them - so that they can get the votes which congress desperately needs. The original count was to regularize 903 colonies.
Her transport minister has removed profitable DTC buses in many routes and have now promoted "Gramin Sewa" which can accomodate 6 people at a time. But these bastards squeeze 12-13 people in these Gramin Sewa and Delhi men enjoy rubbing shoulders and more with women - who are left with no option but to use these Gramin Sewam.
Let Sheila Dixit travel in these six-seater and check herself if her breasts remain untouched and her buttocks sustain the pressure of other men.
She sounds helpless for every Delhi problem. If thats the case why the hell you are clinging to the CM's post? Stop licking Sonia's feet - They too are getting old and she doesnt want her body hairs to be removed to the Nth degree.
- December 29, 2012 at 5:08 AM
- Jyostna said...
Ms.De wonderfully written piece. I agree with you totally. I also agree to the above person Anil Kumar's comment to certain extent..coz there should be a limit to our films/media/TV on what they show as it has great effect on youngsters, in the name of development & modernization,we are crossing the danger limits too. While films or media are entirely not responsible, they are acting as a catalyst! I can see this effect in my own cousins, they adopt so much from TV/Films more than they learn from their parents.
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After reading what you wrote, there is nothing else to add on this topic. I seriously hope it reached to the public. I would like to share it in FB.
I would certainly like to call this pure torture than gang-rape.
- December 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Russel Ahmed said...
I quote from your last line of your article."when delhi gets raped,india gets raped".nice articulated outrage.
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Rita Jeffrey, age 86, of Grandpa's Woods, Tafton, died Friday, May 10, 2013 at home. Born April 9, 1927, in Elizabeth, NJ, she was the daughter of the late John D. and Margaret (Dick) Masterson.
Formerly a resident of Rahway, NJ and Stourbridge Apartments in Honesdale, PA, she worked as a cook until her retirement. She was a former member of Grace and Peace Church in Rahway, NJ. She also volunteered for the Wayne County Senior Center.
One of ten children, she acted as caregiver for most of her family.
She is survived by two daughters: Peggy Morrison of Winter Park, FL and Patricia and Nick Schuermann of Tafton with whom she resided; a sister: Betty Shiel of Chandler, AZ and formerly of Rahway, NJ; six grandchildren: Melissa Stanley, Renee Morrison, Suzanne Marques, Nicky Schuermann, Michael Morrison and Scott Schuermann; nine great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 17, at Stourbridge Apartments, 316 11th St., Honesdale, PA. There will also be a memorial service held on Sunday, May 19, at 3 p.m. at Crossroads Calvary Church, 104 New Era Dr., South Plainfield, NJ 07080. Private cremation was held at Lake Region Crematory, Lake Ariel.
For further information, directions or to leave a Memorial Remembrance (Candle) visit www.TeetersFuneralChapel.com.
Arrangements by Teeters' Funeral Chapel, 505 Church St., Hawley, PA 18428.


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Smart is overrated. Maybe I'm biased because I'm bit of a dummy, but I've always felt that having a big heart will get you further in life than having a big brain.
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Because, well, no one gives a shit if you got your MBA from Harvard or you got a perfect score on your SAT. Ultimately, the people you work with only want to know two things: Can I rely on this person to do what she says she's going to do; and would she be a fun person to have a beer with?
In fact, being really smart is often a huge obstacle in the path to success. If you're Mr. Harvard MBA then your natural inclination is to try to win by outsmarting everyone else. But outsmarting everyone else is an impossible battle to win. No matter how hard you try, you're never going to be the smartest person in the world. Heck, you're probably not even the smartest person reading this blog post right now. So, no matter how smart you think you are, there's someone smarter out there who is going to beat you at your own game.
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Once you come to the realization that you can't out-Amazon Amazon, it's time to change the rules of the game. Brad Feld recently wrote an excellent blog post on resegmenting your business. He said, if you're not the market leader or at least in the top three for your category, then it's time to create a new category and become No. 1 in the new category. The same principle can be applied on the personal level. Are you the smartest person in the world? Are you in the top three? No. Okay, then instead of trying to be the market leader of smart, resegment yourself and become the market leader of nice.
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From All about Linux swap space:
- Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk, called swap space, to free up that page of memory. The combined sizes of the physical memory and the swap space is the amount of virtual memory available.
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Last, add
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Insurance broker Marsh estimates that the market penetration for cyber liability insurance across all industries is about 25 percent to 35 percent, "give or take a 5 percent deviation," according to Bob Parisi, network security and privacy practice leader. "We expect this to change now that many carriers are streamlining the underwriting process, providing truncated insurance policies and turnkey solutions to enterprises where interest has been less than robust."
A key challenge for potential buyers, particularly smaller businesses without a corporate risk manager, is the cyber insurance application process. In many cases, the insurer wants detailed information on the organization's technology infrastructure and security protocols, which can be both time-consuming and expensive. "The process is very off-putting," Parisi said.
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Concordia, a research-driven institution, also has in its possession a storehouse of intellectual property, including the R&D of the many large corporations that provide funding for specific research conducted at the university on their behalf. "It is our responsibility to protect this information," Baril said.
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Bank of New York Mellon purchased its first cyber liability insurance five years ago. "At the time, our perception of risks emanating from the Internet had grown," according to Carmelo Casella, managing director corporate insurance, at the New York-based bank. "I also was reading these stories about companies that had lost customer data because an employee left a laptop on the subway."
Since purchasing that initial policy, the bank has added to the limits of financial protection, from $10 million originally to what is now $50 million in insurance. The policy's coverage terms and conditions have also broadened. "The big expense is victim notification of a breach, which is broadly covered to include all out-of-pocket extra expenses like phone calls, letters, and so on," he said.
The risk manager agrees that the initial underwriting process is onerous, as are subsequent annual policy renewals. "What I do is have my chief information security officer here with me when the underwriter visits," Casella said. "Technology is a foreign language to me, packed with acronyms. Rather than be a messenger between the insurer and our IT people, I find it best to have us all in one room."
Some businesses like The Lincoln Electric Company continue to mull the purchase of cyber liability insurance, but find it too expensive. "We've given it a close look the last three years as we evaluated our cyber exposures, and determined to self-insure the risk for the time being," said John Hach, risk manager of the Euclid, Ohio-based $3 billion manufacturer of welding products, arc welding equipment, welding consumables, and robotic welding systems.
The company's risk evaluation included the creation of a model pinpointing the financial and reputational impact of a data breach. "The findings indicated that the average cost to rectify data breach losses of victims was roughly the same as the deductible offered by the insurer," Hach said. "Consequently, it made no sense to buy the insurance. Rather, we're managing the risks by investing in our IT infrastructure. For instance, we recently went through an `ethical hacking' of our system to assess if there were any holes."
In between these examples is the State of Washington, which awaits direction from its Chief Information Officer on whether or not to purchase cyber liability insurance. "Right now, we self-insure (our cyber liability risks) and purchase reinsurance above it," says Drew Zavatsky, loss prevention section manager in the state's Office of Risk Management. "Given the volume of personal data we possess, and the criminal skills of the hacking community, our CIO is undertaking a gap analysis to assess our security strength against the potential threat."
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Three years ago, this was not the case, however. "We stuck our toe in the water in 2011 to really give this some thought, but felt the premium was prohibitively expensive," he recalls. "Still, this is one risk that just won't go away."


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