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Essay / Critical Review of "The Red Thread Zen" by Susan Murphy Roshi
The Red Thread Zen written by Susan Murphy Roshi is about the body, sexuality, passion, care, the torn, the dark, of the mortal, of laughter, of the hands and eyes, of the teisho of the real body. According to Amazon.com.au. The red thread (or “vermilion”) originally evoked the color of the silk underwear that courtesans were forced to wear. Most spiritual traditions strive to distance themselves as far as possible from such direct and intimate contact with the fact of the passionate human corporeal being, the female body which gives birth from body to body covered in blood. But the red thread can never be cut. The topic I have chosen is chapter four: on “Passion”. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essayIn the first three paragraphs, I will summarize and present the main ideas of this section. In the fourth and fifth paragraphs, I will write my assessment and response to certain points. Dongshan was a man devoted to the gods and the temple. One day, he became angry when one of his monks was scattering leftover grain for waste. If his anger had not risen in his human nature, the spirit of the earth would not have appeared to pay homage to him. A point of a needle was enough to pique his anger. Anger is therefore a complexity of strong emotions that occupies our energy. It slowly harms the soul, brutalizes others, kills or alienates others. The description of anger namely cold anger, hot anger, bottled anger, passive aggressiveness are the human traits we see in our everyday life. Humans can show passion within the gates of Dharma, unlike animals who cannot show passion. We can identify them, consider them, resist or indulge them, avoid them, or form a more self-aware relationship in society. The Koan red thread exposes the deep entanglement of human frailty with emptiness. Even the most enlightened minds are not detached from the vermilion thread of the human. Dogen identified four simple virtues of a bodhisattva: naming, using words of love, completely forgetting oneself, living by helping others, but the grandmother who practiced these four virtues burned down the hermitage because she couldn't find the signs in the monk betraying the four. virtues through his anger. The dinosaurs' brains were far removed from their very long tails, where the impulse from its central nervous system could take too long for the creature to react and protect itself in time from anger. The idea of passion in the Dharma Gate was to accept suffering and reality such as extremes. of shame, pain, anger or sorrow. Ram Das suggests that the moment we close our hearts to anything in the universe, then we are at the mercy of ourselves. Anger from another person can be managed by sorting out “me” and “you”. The mystery of the misty moon in human beings lies in the inner emotions, feelings, thoughts, and poisonous actions, each mood known as "personality." Human failures, falls, collapse and limitations are still attached to the red thread. Sometimes we tend to do terrible things to ourselves in the name of purity by exporting hurtful acts to others, creating discomfort, disgust, or impurity. In meditation, sweeping the mind or heart empty of everything is impossible because it fills with everything like one wave after another. shake the moon appears. Sometimes the supernatural human dream of self-improvement presents great dangers.