Upside Down - Zen... The book presentation about life

1. India’s 1st Green Business School

2. About the author
SUSAN MURPHY IS A ZEN
TEACHER in the lineage that
comes through Robert
Aitken and Ross Bolleter in
the Diamond Sangha branch
of the Harada-Yasutani line
of Zen, and John Tarrant,
who has established an
independent Zen school,
the Pacific Zen Institute.
She regularly conducts sesshin (Zen retreats)
with the Zen Open Circle. She also travels to
Melbourne and the US to teach. Susan is a
writer and feature film director, with a
special interest in place, dream, and the
affinity of Dharma with aboriginal
spirituality. She is a widely published author
on subjects as varied as cinema and Zen. She
lives in Sydney.

3. Contents
PART ONE: THE PATH OF ZEN
1. Breath, like Mind, Like Water
2. One world at a time
3. Intimacy with the other
4. The Great way of play
5. The whole world is Medicine
6. “HE IS ME”
PART TWO : ONE TEACHING UPSIDE DOWN
7. The Tiger’s kindness
8. Songlines of the Way
9. The Hermitage in the Street
10. Can the Buddha be a mother?
11. The koan of dream
PART THREE: LOTUS IN THE FIRE
12. The way of character
13. A thousand of mistakes, Ten thousand of
mistakes
14. Mysterious affinity
15. Every Day is a good day
16. Accept all offers
17. Walking alone in the red sky

4. Preface
Zen is a direct path into reality.
Its a path of mountain
It is based on discovery rather than belief
Zen is not how to become different but
How to be more richly and entirely who
you already are
Face-to-face teacher and student relationship
UBS mountain trek training photo

5. PART ONE
The Path of Zen

6. Chapter 1
Breath, Like mind, Like water
The
moment-by-moment
Miracle
is called
Breath
“Let it be”
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7. Chapter 2
Difficult
Difficult
maiis
makes
ihi
The
wai iiiuiii
way genuine
One World at a Time
Life,
Death
One

8. Chapter 3
Intimacy with the others
Don’t get anGRY
MaintainGood Relation
Don’t
let
your
throa
ighten
with
fear
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9. Chapter 4
The Great way of play
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Way of true sorrow and true joy
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Sorrow
Joy

10. Chapter 5
The whole world is medicine
LIFE IS
NOT RIGHT
Wrong GOODBAD

11. Chapter 6
“HE is ME”

12. PART TWO
ONE TEACHING
UPSIDE-DOWN

13. Chapter 7
The Tiger,s kindness
The humanfears
Tiger
The tiger’s kindness
the human heart

14. Chapter 8
Songlines of the way
Morning Gives you the flow of new day—aah!
Vision
Start learning now

15. Chapter 9
The hermitage in the street
Feel Free to look around
The secret of life of the street
The middle man of the world
Feel Free to look around

16. Chapter 10
Can Buddha be a mother
Once a monk met a women living in hut.
The monk asked, “Do you have any followers?”
She said, “Yes.”
The monk asked, “where are they?”
She said, “The mountains, rivers, and the whole Earth,
The plants and trees, are my followers.”
The monk said, “Aren’t you a nun?”
She said, “What do you see me as?”
The monk said, “A layperson.?”
She said, “You can’t be a monk!”
The monk said, “You shouldn’t mix up Buddhism.”
She said, “I’m not mixing up Buddhism”
The monk said, “Aren’t you mixing up Buddhism
this way?”
She said, “You’re a man, I’m a women.
Where has there ever been any mix-up?”

17. Chapter 11
The koan of dream
Even in the Dream
Dream and Death
So contemplate your Dream, let the great
Dream contemplate you

18. PART THREE
LOTUS IN THE FIRE

19. Chapter 12
The way of Character
Strongly stick to Real Character
Karma
Forgetting for the self
Strongly stick to Real Character

20. Chapter 13
A Thousand Mistakes, Ten Thousand Mistakes
?

21. Chapter 14
Mysterious Affinity
A Ghost Story
or
A Love Story

22. Chapter 15
Every Day is a Good Day
A curse and a Gift
Life is short but it’s wide
Suffering is related to allowing

23. Chapter 16
Accept all offers
Only for your benefit
Not doing for the self
The one enclose with my name
There is nothing I dislike
Freely living with limitation

24. Chapter 17
Walking alone in the Red Sky
Done be like chicken, be an Eagle
Don’t be LAZY, but be Crazy
Walk with Fire
“Dar ke aage jeet hai”

26. Thank You
Thank You
Thank You