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Training vs Learning and Being Wild

by on October 20, 2009 in Zen

In these videos Doen Sensei emphasizes that our practice is based in training rather than learning, and discusses the difference between the two.  Training to be able to do something is different than just thinking about something.  Training involves more than intellectual understanding.  It also requires will, persistence, action, and guts. Sensei also discusses happiness, [...]

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Training vs Learning

by on August 18, 2009 in Zen

Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei talks about his teacher Genpo Roshi and about having a tough teacher, on the pursuit of enlightenment via training versus learning, how information is of no help in gaining enlightenment, and reads from Maezumi Roshi’s writings on being. 1 of 2 Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei follows up in Part 2 by [...]

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