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Nowhere Man

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Old forum has been technically down and out for a bit, so I meandered around and found this place. :0)

To introduce myself.....

I practice Bompu (Common)Zen primarily in which the holistic benefits brought about by the practice had helped greatly in my life and living in general. You can also refer to it as being a form of wild fox Zen as well. Either suffices.

Used to be a Christian since my early teen years all the way to my young adult years of about age 30, and made a difficult yet non-regrettable decision to leave the faith in 2006 and later on had picked up a keen interest in Zen Buddhism focusing primarily on the practice of Zazen to help guide my path in life rather than strict reliance on textual and scriptural guidance alone for which I find the latter to be immensely suffocating and linear in most cases, with some exception of course made where certain literary and scriptural documentations resonated well with experiences involving engaged practices and meditations.

Seems like a nice crowd here and looking forward to posting.

Thanks all.
 
Hi Nowhere Man. We have met elsewhere. I'm still a brick here, but I'm called waggindraggin.
 
Welcome and I hope you will like the stay.
Good to have your perspective, I think the closest thing we've had to a Buddhist point of view it Thomas...who is catholic.
 
Welcome and I hope you will like the stay.
Good to have your perspective, I think the closest thing we've had to a Buddhist point of view it Thomas...who is catholic.

The Buddhist perspective is exactly what comes with drinking a cup of tea, as per your forum name. Not very hard for anyone to experience directly what Buddhism entails.

Appreciative of the welcome. :)
 
Hello and welcome. Bompu is a very earthbound way of religious experience; or such is my (limited) understanding. Is that so?
Yes.

As much as possible, I try to essentially "keep the feet on the ground" of whatever reality puts forth by the way it's experienced, and try my best as so not to embellish or fabricate beyond each experience at any givin time.

The results can be rather mundane and dull upon introspection, and quite common hence bompu (common) practice.

Chop wood, carry water. :0)
 
Welcome, Nowhere Man! Happy to have you join us here :)
 
Hi, NM, and welcome to the forum.

I, too, am a Buddhist (although not in the traditional sense of the word "Buddhist").

You said, "...strict reliance on textual and scriptural guidance alone for which I find the latter to be immensely suffocating..."

--> I feel the same way.

"certain literary and scriptural documentations resonated well with experiences..."

--> I think it's important to go with what resonates with us, and reject belief systems that do not resonate with us. I'm glad you had the courage to move on.
 
I practice Bompu (Common)Zen primarily in which the holistic benefits brought about by the practice had helped greatly in my life and living in general. You can also refer to it as being a form of wild fox Zen as well. Either suffices.
Had a Korean girlfriend that was into such when I were a lad. Interesting stuff. Anyway, welcome to the forum.
 
Hi, NM, and welcome to the forum.

I, too, am a Buddhist (although not in the traditional sense of the word "Buddhist").

You said, "...strict reliance on textual and scriptural guidance alone for which I find the latter to be immensely suffocating..."

--> I feel the same way.

"certain literary and scriptural documentations resonated well with experiences..."

--> I think it's important to go with what resonates with us, and reject belief systems that do not resonate with us. I'm glad you had the courage to move on.

It was a return to the basics before any religious introduction came about and for me, what better way than to just allow life and living with all that it entails naturally provide the teaching necessary without entertaining particular views that might not reflect the actuality of what's experienced and observed in a direct sense.

Everyone experiences direct nonprovisional truth as it plays out, I figured why not therefore keep things pristine and unclouded as best as possible, avoiding thoughts and ideologies that embellish or fabricate the actuality of things beyond what things really and actually are?

I'm not swayed by religious texts and scriptures as much as I used to be, nor ideologies or dogmas that potray something in an unrealistic manner.

Guess you can say it's the way I bounce!

*Grin*
 
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