Upside Down - Zen by Mohammed Muneer (MBA)

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India’s 1st Green Business School

ByMohammed Muneer

SUSAN MURPHY IS A ZEN TEACHER in the lineage that comes through Robert Aitken and Ross Bolleter in the Diamond Sangha branch of the Harada-Yasutani line of Zen, and John Tarrant, who has established an independent Zen school, the Pacific Zen Institute.

She regularly conducts sesshin (Zen retreats) with the Zen Open Circle. She also travels to Melbourne and the US to teach. Susan is a writer and feature film director, with a special interest in place, dream, and the affinity of Dharma with aboriginal spirituality. She is a widely published author on subjects as varied as cinema and Zen. She lives in Sydney.

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ContentsPART ONE: THE PATH OF ZEN

1. Breath, like Mind, Like Water2. One world at a time3. Intimacy with the other4. The Great way of play5. The whole world is Medicine6. “HE IS ME”

PART TWO : ONE TEACHING UPSIDE DOWN7. The Tiger’s kindness8. Songlines of the Way9. The Hermitage in the Street10. Can the Buddha be a mother?11. The koan of dream

PART THREE: LOTUS IN THE FIRE12. The way of character13. A thousand of mistakes, Ten thousand of mistakes14. Mysterious affinity15. Every Day is a good day16. Accept all offers17. Walking alone in the red sky

Preface

Zen is a direct path into reality.

It is based on discovery rather than belief

Zen is not how to become different but How to be more richly and entirely who

you already are

Its a path of mountain

Face-to-face teacher and student relationship

UBS mountain trek training photo

PART ONE

The Path of Zen

Chapter 1

Breath, Like mind, Like waterThe moment-by-moment Miracle is called Breath

Fasting of mind

“Let it be”is not m

atter of

“not Thinking”

SARANG

Difficult

makes

The

way genuine

Chapter 2

Difficult

makes

The

way genuine

One World at a Time

Life, DeathOn

e

Aware of passing away of things all the times

Chapter 3

Intimacy with the others

Don’t get anGRY

Maintain Good Relation

Don’t let your throa ighten with fear

t

Chapter 4

The Great way of play

Way of true sorrow and true joy

What are you doing?What are you doing?What are you doing?

Play

Heart

with** *

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Sorrow

Joy

Chapter 5

The whole world is medicine

LIFE

IS

NOTRIGHTWrong

GO

ODBA

D

Chapter 6

“HE is ME”

The teacher has nothing to offer

Teacher is the vital partner in

helping you

PART TWO

ONE TEACHINGUPSIDE-DOWN

Chapter 7

The Tiger,s kindness

fearsThe humanTiger The tiger’s kindnessthe human heart

Chapter 8

Songlines of the way

Morning Gives you the flow of new day—aah!

Vision

Start learning now

Chapter 9

The hermitage in the street

Feel Free to look around

The secret of life of the street

The middle man of the world

Feel Free to look around

Chapter 10

Can Buddha be a motherOnce a monk met a women living in hut. The monk asked, “Do you have any followers?”She said, “Yes.”The monk asked, “where are they?”She said, “The mountains, rivers, and the whole Earth,The plants and trees, are my followers.”The monk said, “Aren’t you a nun?”She said, “What do you see me as?”The monk said, “A layperson.?”She said, “You can’t be a monk!”The monk said, “You shouldn’t mix up Buddhism.”She said, “I’m not mixing up Buddhism”The monk said, “Aren’t you mixing up Buddhism this way?”She said, “You’re a man, I’m a women. Where has there ever been any mix-up?”

Chapter 11

The koan of dreamEven in the Dream

Dream and Death

So contemplate your Dream, let the great Dream contemplate you

PART THREE

LOTUS IN THE FIRE

Chapter 12

The way of Character

Strongly stick to Real Character

Karma

Forgetting for the self

Strongly stick to Real Character

Chapter 13

A Thousand Mistakes, Ten Thousand Mistakes

?

Chapter 14

Mysterious Affinity

A Ghost Story

A Love Story

or

Chapter 15

Every Day is a Good Day

A curse and a Gift

Life is short but it’s wide

Suffering is related to allowing

Chapter 16

Accept all offers

Only for your benefit

Not doing for the self

The one enclose with my name

There is nothing I dislike

Freely living with limitation

Chapter 17

Walking alone in the Red Sky

Done be like chicken, be an Eagle

“Dar ke aage jeet hai”

Don’t be LAZY, but be Crazy

Walk with Fire

Thank You

Thank You

Thank You