Wystan
@wystantbs.bsky.social
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Meditation Teacher,
Advisor ཨ https://qri.org/,
Team ཨ https://theeprc.org/,
Links ཨ https://linktr.ee/WystanTBS,
👋🌊🙇♂️
Meditation Teacher,
Advisor ཨ https://qri.org/,
Team ཨ https://theeprc.org/,
Links ཨ https://linktr.ee/WystanTBS,
👋🌊🙇♂️
Post-mortem pondering put to rest:
February 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Post-mortem pondering put to rest:
Nothing quite like old masters spilling steaming Zen tea:
January 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Nothing quite like old masters spilling steaming Zen tea:
😆Hakuin heckling the Heart Sutra is gold:
December 20, 2024 at 7:53 PM
😆Hakuin heckling the Heart Sutra is gold:
A long, informative, and entertaining journey to, "lol idk, maybe."
December 18, 2024 at 10:06 PM
A long, informative, and entertaining journey to, "lol idk, maybe."
Expelled some bile and threw it up on the stack.
Cathartic.
Reflecting and expressing feelings regarding full-time teaching.
wystan.substack.com/p/reflecting...
Cathartic.
Reflecting and expressing feelings regarding full-time teaching.
wystan.substack.com/p/reflecting...
December 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Expelled some bile and threw it up on the stack.
Cathartic.
Reflecting and expressing feelings regarding full-time teaching.
wystan.substack.com/p/reflecting...
Cathartic.
Reflecting and expressing feelings regarding full-time teaching.
wystan.substack.com/p/reflecting...
Tonight, last one of the year, holding open space for practice and discussion, resuming 8th of January.
www.wystantbs.com/drop-into-op...
www.wystantbs.com/drop-into-op...
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Tonight, last one of the year, holding open space for practice and discussion, resuming 8th of January.
www.wystantbs.com/drop-into-op...
www.wystantbs.com/drop-into-op...
Loved this, passing massive nenju around while all intoning the Komyo Shingon.
December 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Loved this, passing massive nenju around while all intoning the Komyo Shingon.
Whatever your beliefs, ritual magic is 🔥.
Goma a few days ago:
body, speech, and mind ablaze invoking Fudo Myoo's power for others' benefit.
All intoning his mantra, translated:
Homage to the all-encompassing Vajras! O violent one of great wrath, destroy! hūṃ traṭ hāṃ māṃ.
Goma a few days ago:
body, speech, and mind ablaze invoking Fudo Myoo's power for others' benefit.
All intoning his mantra, translated:
Homage to the all-encompassing Vajras! O violent one of great wrath, destroy! hūṃ traṭ hāṃ māṃ.
December 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Whatever your beliefs, ritual magic is 🔥.
Goma a few days ago:
body, speech, and mind ablaze invoking Fudo Myoo's power for others' benefit.
All intoning his mantra, translated:
Homage to the all-encompassing Vajras! O violent one of great wrath, destroy! hūṃ traṭ hāṃ māṃ.
Goma a few days ago:
body, speech, and mind ablaze invoking Fudo Myoo's power for others' benefit.
All intoning his mantra, translated:
Homage to the all-encompassing Vajras! O violent one of great wrath, destroy! hūṃ traṭ hāṃ māṃ.
Iconographical tidbits:
Fudo's blue-black coloring is due to his wading into the muck and shit of samsara endlessly in service to all sentience. He brandishes a sword of prajna to cut delusion, his lasso of samadhi binds affliction, his wrath blazes, burning all suffering.
Fudo's blue-black coloring is due to his wading into the muck and shit of samsara endlessly in service to all sentience. He brandishes a sword of prajna to cut delusion, his lasso of samadhi binds affliction, his wrath blazes, burning all suffering.
December 17, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Iconographical tidbits:
Fudo's blue-black coloring is due to his wading into the muck and shit of samsara endlessly in service to all sentience. He brandishes a sword of prajna to cut delusion, his lasso of samadhi binds affliction, his wrath blazes, burning all suffering.
Fudo's blue-black coloring is due to his wading into the muck and shit of samsara endlessly in service to all sentience. He brandishes a sword of prajna to cut delusion, his lasso of samadhi binds affliction, his wrath blazes, burning all suffering.
"Is Fudō Myōō real? In a Buddhist view, he's about as real as you are."
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December 16, 2024 at 5:33 PM
"Is Fudō Myōō real? In a Buddhist view, he's about as real as you are."
☀️💎🌈
☀️💎🌈
🔥Short Shugendo retreat at Korinji completed.🔥
Delightful ritual and mantra practice connecting and embodying Fudo Myoo. Syllables still vibrating in my bones. Already looking forward to returning for sesshin and further mikkyo training.
🙏🙇♂️
My attempt at his seed-syllable:
Delightful ritual and mantra practice connecting and embodying Fudo Myoo. Syllables still vibrating in my bones. Already looking forward to returning for sesshin and further mikkyo training.
🙏🙇♂️
My attempt at his seed-syllable:
December 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
🔥Short Shugendo retreat at Korinji completed.🔥
Delightful ritual and mantra practice connecting and embodying Fudo Myoo. Syllables still vibrating in my bones. Already looking forward to returning for sesshin and further mikkyo training.
🙏🙇♂️
My attempt at his seed-syllable:
Delightful ritual and mantra practice connecting and embodying Fudo Myoo. Syllables still vibrating in my bones. Already looking forward to returning for sesshin and further mikkyo training.
🙏🙇♂️
My attempt at his seed-syllable:
METTA HOLIDAY!
Saturday, December 21, 12-6PM Pacific, 3-9PM Eastern.
Drop in for time immersing, saturating, and suffusing in loving awareness extending to all, offered on donation.
www.wystantbs.com/intensives
Saturday, December 21, 12-6PM Pacific, 3-9PM Eastern.
Drop in for time immersing, saturating, and suffusing in loving awareness extending to all, offered on donation.
www.wystantbs.com/intensives
December 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM
METTA HOLIDAY!
Saturday, December 21, 12-6PM Pacific, 3-9PM Eastern.
Drop in for time immersing, saturating, and suffusing in loving awareness extending to all, offered on donation.
www.wystantbs.com/intensives
Saturday, December 21, 12-6PM Pacific, 3-9PM Eastern.
Drop in for time immersing, saturating, and suffusing in loving awareness extending to all, offered on donation.
www.wystantbs.com/intensives
Found on morning walk.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Found on morning walk.
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Favorite films on religious life:
December 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Favorite films on religious life:
These thoughts bubbling up in response to talking with Corey today, and reading this among some of his other writing over the past few days.
coreyhess.substack.com/p/90-minutes...
coreyhess.substack.com/p/90-minutes...
November 27, 2024 at 11:02 PM
These thoughts bubbling up in response to talking with Corey today, and reading this among some of his other writing over the past few days.
coreyhess.substack.com/p/90-minutes...
coreyhess.substack.com/p/90-minutes...
RPGs came up in my convo with @tasshin.com, and given how many hours I spent imagining myself and my friends as sorcererous heroes it's not so surprising what I've gone and done in adulthood...
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Left, a sorcerer from 3e D&D, right is Fudō Myōō.
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Left, a sorcerer from 3e D&D, right is Fudō Myōō.
November 26, 2024 at 8:31 PM
RPGs came up in my convo with @tasshin.com, and given how many hours I spent imagining myself and my friends as sorcererous heroes it's not so surprising what I've gone and done in adulthood...
😄
Left, a sorcerer from 3e D&D, right is Fudō Myōō.
😄
Left, a sorcerer from 3e D&D, right is Fudō Myōō.
Some pointers for tuning into spaciousness within and around all sensory experience, in advance of Saturday's 6-hour deep-dive (details below).
November 26, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Some pointers for tuning into spaciousness within and around all sensory experience, in advance of Saturday's 6-hour deep-dive (details below).
I wrote about attachment, addiction, and release:
wystan.substack.com/p/attachment...
wystan.substack.com/p/attachment...
November 25, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I wrote about attachment, addiction, and release:
wystan.substack.com/p/attachment...
wystan.substack.com/p/attachment...
Delighted to serve as one of Shinzen's co-teachers for this year-end virtual retreat.
Registration below.
Registration below.
November 25, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Delighted to serve as one of Shinzen's co-teachers for this year-end virtual retreat.
Registration below.
Registration below.
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Exciting news that, in addition to upholding Rinzai Zen, Korinji will function as a place for training in Shingon, and other mikkyo streams from Tendai and Shugendo.
Exciting news that, in addition to upholding Rinzai Zen, Korinji will function as a place for training in Shingon, and other mikkyo streams from Tendai and Shugendo.
November 23, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Exciting news that, in addition to upholding Rinzai Zen, Korinji will function as a place for training in Shingon, and other mikkyo streams from Tendai and Shugendo.
Exciting news that, in addition to upholding Rinzai Zen, Korinji will function as a place for training in Shingon, and other mikkyo streams from Tendai and Shugendo.
Finished reading yesterday.
Enjoyed the historical and hermeneutic academic portions concerning the creation and function of hagiographies. The middle portion is also a good conceptual intro to Vajrayana and Mahamudra, as far as that goes.
The texts in translation are 💎.
Enjoyed the historical and hermeneutic academic portions concerning the creation and function of hagiographies. The middle portion is also a good conceptual intro to Vajrayana and Mahamudra, as far as that goes.
The texts in translation are 💎.
November 23, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Finished reading yesterday.
Enjoyed the historical and hermeneutic academic portions concerning the creation and function of hagiographies. The middle portion is also a good conceptual intro to Vajrayana and Mahamudra, as far as that goes.
The texts in translation are 💎.
Enjoyed the historical and hermeneutic academic portions concerning the creation and function of hagiographies. The middle portion is also a good conceptual intro to Vajrayana and Mahamudra, as far as that goes.
The texts in translation are 💎.
Online, Saturday, November 30
10AM - 4PM Pacific, 1PM - 7PM Eastern
Time devoted to exploring the theme of space within sensory experience, the space of and around sight, sound, sensation, and ultimately the primordial space-like, empty, self-luminous nature of mind-itself.
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10AM - 4PM Pacific, 1PM - 7PM Eastern
Time devoted to exploring the theme of space within sensory experience, the space of and around sight, sound, sensation, and ultimately the primordial space-like, empty, self-luminous nature of mind-itself.
👇
November 21, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Online, Saturday, November 30
10AM - 4PM Pacific, 1PM - 7PM Eastern
Time devoted to exploring the theme of space within sensory experience, the space of and around sight, sound, sensation, and ultimately the primordial space-like, empty, self-luminous nature of mind-itself.
👇
10AM - 4PM Pacific, 1PM - 7PM Eastern
Time devoted to exploring the theme of space within sensory experience, the space of and around sight, sound, sensation, and ultimately the primordial space-like, empty, self-luminous nature of mind-itself.
👇