Development Through Play

Doen Sensei discusses practice and development through serious play.

Tags: development, play, video

Personal Development

I have been looking at a number of interesting blogs that deal with personal development. I think there is a great deal of valuable information out there. However an important element, sometimes missing is addressing the nature of our minds. How the mind works unconsciously and mechanically and how we can actually train our minds to understand and do so much more. Adding this meta-element – observation and training – changes the whole thing. We have understood this in music, athletics, chess, business and many other fields. Are we ready to start work on breaking the walls rather than decorating them with ideas, default behavioral patterns and beliefs.

We can look at is as a new age. The one after the age of information – the age of amplification. With information and amplification combined the limits expand exponentially.

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Tokusan Series Conclusion

Tokusan and his development as told through the stories and koans of Buddhism. This series on Tokusan began with three video clips from a previous class. (Part 1, Parts 2 & 3)

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Tags: development, enlightenment, koans, maturity, tokusan

The Future of Lost Coin Blog

The Lost Coin Blog is almost 3 months old.  So far we have established our goals and identity by posting talks and videos. We’ve noticed a steady increase in traffic, subscriptions, and video views from all over the world.  Thank you to all who have taken time to view posts and subscribe to this blog; we appreciate your support.

It is our hope to establish a broader culture.  We will be doing more collaborative posts as well as including other aspects of Lost Coin’s shared interests.  To that end we will be presenting things of interest from other sources as well as our own members and hope to utilize the Internet to the fullest of its emerging abilities.

We are interested in collaboration, exchange, we invite your input and participation.  In essence you might say we are creating a culture, one that is broad, contemporary, and open.  We invite all those interested in the development of spirituality, science, art, and business to be part of our emerging culture.

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Tokusan – Parts 2 & 3

Talk on Tokusan continued.  Part 1 is here.

Part 2:

Part 3:

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