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    Zen And Mindfulness With Dogs
    Zen And Mindfulness With Dogs
    Zen And Mindfulness With Dogs
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    Zen And Mindfulness With Dogs

    By Holger Junghardt

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    This little booklet can help you to understand dogs better. If you have no idea about dogs, you will get a first overview for a small price.

    Zen practice helps to develop mindfulness and compassion and to better understand reality.

    Mindful handling of dogs means species-appropriate dog ownership.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateApr 18, 2018
    ISBN9783752882018
    Zen And Mindfulness With Dogs
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    Holger Junghardt

    Holger Junghardt kam schon im vergangenen Jahrhundert in Berührung mit dem Buddhismus. Seine Erfahrungen sammelte er in Meditationen, Dharma-Vorträgen, Retreats sowie durch Achtsamkeit im Alltag Holger Junghardt came into contact with Buddhism already in the last century. He gained his experience in meditations, Dharma lectures, retreats and through mindfulness in everyday life.

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      Do I have to become a Zen monk?

      It would not be the worst, but no, you don‘t. The essential realization that is experienced after more or less long Zen practice is that there is no independent existence. Consequently, there is no ego and thus there is no separation between subject and object. This is not intellectually perceptible, but some examples may show what it is about.

      There is a wave in the great wide sea, and this wave thinks she is the most beautiful, the best, and the greatest wave that ever existed. And she becomes arrogant because she considers the other waves to be inferior and is now suddenly afraid of not existing anymore. If she did not think this way, she would just see that she was only part of the great sea and did not exist independently, but was connected to all the other waves. She consists even of non-wave parts, namely, only of the substance of the ocean.

      Buddhism formulates this in the Heart-Sutra in the famous statement: Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form.

      The realization from this example is that there is no independent existence, even if one thinks there is. In addition, this thinking creates many problems because one does not recognize reality and develops negative qualities such as hatred and greed.

      Probably this small intellectual bridge has not yet led to the great realization that the world is like that. Not for nothing, you have to sit in Zen for a very long period of time and just watch. The mind will hopefully be confused by a koan so far as to abandon its intellectual objections.

      But if there really is no separation between the subject and the object, then I do all the bad things I do unto others to myself. And that is why it is necessary to lead a mindful life.

      What is the meaning of mindfulness?

      It is easy to see that all the bad things that you do unto others come back to you again. For example, you have a dispute with someone and you are increasingly raging. You decide to leave the place of the quarrel after violent controversy - still in rage - and in blindness of rage you run into the lane of a vehicle that has a little more energy than you and that is therefore very painful. Or think of old slapstick films, where two opponents continue to pursue their revenge and things get more and more evil, until they finally destroy all their belongings, and come at the happy ending to the conclusion that something has fundamentally gone wrong.

      In ethics, therefore, there is also the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is perfectly logic when one considers that there is no separation between subject and object. Compassion with other beings is therefore nothing other than compassion with oneself.

      Mindfulness means to practice compassion. Compassion implies the realization that all living creatures want to be happy. Compassion forbids hatred and greed. But other thoughts can

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