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Thanks for this video. I’m not a Buddhist but watching it reaffirmed my belief that there is no one best way to live and that everything comes with tradeoffs. The best we can do is to balance them. Desire might cause suffering but having no desire can also cause suffering. As with Okumura’s quote about needing to go out into the world to live life, as an outsider it seems Buddhist teachings are more applicable when we have already experienced the stress, anxiety and depression of focusing too much work, on the future and/or the past.

Very peaceful, beautiful and lovely family, this is a short but very amazing film

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Really good doc👌

The end is perfect.

I was zen practitioner for 18 years but im sick of my kidneys and i can't continue practice in zen center...im sad , zen requires healthy condition...😢

BEAUTIFUL ART stuff thank you for sharing this

Don't give up I just happen to run across your film "Unseen" I'm a subscriber and a fan

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Moreover, success is super subjective. What is "success"? Busting it 12 hours a day, making bank, and having no time to reflect or enjoy life? Your dad is, without a doubt, the wisest person to consult on the topic.

Haha, this was great! 😁☝️👍🍓

Kawaii. Mom?? Your dad is funny and supportive. Strawberries are joy and mindfulness. Thankyou

You are weirdly cute...Spinach hair

Shows the impact that solipsism can have on a family. Both father and son seem to exhibit symptoms of this syndrome.

Soo like what’s the movie huh

Respond to comments. Or nobody will care

It looks so fun omg.. This is the dream for me one day 💞

Congrats! 🙌love your green hair!! do you remember what brand & shade of hair dye you used?

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Interesting. You are interesting

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You are alive

Awesome documentary! I stumbled across it because Brad Warner mentioned it in his book 'The Other Side of Nothing'.

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Plain old good work Fellas. I know the follow up film will be just as well done, Thanks from Philadelphia

This is beautiful! A sisters love for her brother, a Fathers love for ‘the way’ a brothers honest struggle..... finding a path.... spacious and touching.... heart to heart communication! :) a beautiful creation!

Loved this. Thank you.

Pops looks like a 18 year old Marine guard. His posture is bamboo-erect, his face like glinting gold, and he speaks serene sentences. Documentary made one think, and hungry. Son is blessed with a good family. Thanks.

Beautiful

Beautiful.

Very touching, well realized, and very true.

Thank you very much!

The tattoo is great, although I do not tattoos on women's body. Your movies are great!

Thank you very much! Amazing movie!

Very interesting. Mr Okumara had too much expectation and wanted freedom, yet his son felt like there was not enough....

A bit fan of your father, Yoko. Thanks for making this

I think your beautiful son Came knowing about the environment. It’s harsh for some of us. Please just let him be as he is. Maybe he will open his own restaurant where he can be a chef

Oh darling, i get you & there are many of us .❤️

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Im a 15 year old buddhist from Brazil. I never met another buddhist. I never went to a temple. No one of my family except me is buddhist. I found refuge on the Three Jewels Im now 18 and im finally going to a buddhist retreat! Its going to be an entire month of learning and practicing the Dharma

Thanks, Yoko - you all seem smart and healthy and humbling to see your real problems of finding identity - I also think being a second-generation immigrant is a part of it but definitely not all. We have to make it ourselves and the harder we try the more original we are at least.

I like how in the very very last second of the film the bird and the fish finally understand what the sky and the ocean are like & what this world is about, and become great masters.

I just watched this beautiful film now and it made me tear up. heartwarming on so many levels :)

Yoko, I found your mini documentary and was enthralled. Visually and artistically, each shot was a pleasure to watch. The story was universal. I come from a family that did the opposite of your gentle Mom and Dad. The expectations to live for my parents honor were paramount. You quickly set up the conflict. You have a spiritually minded Father and Mother who believe that attachment to desire is the root of suffering applies even to the natural desire that our kids “grow up”. There is a point in a child’s life where loving them is allowing them to become who they are. Obviously, you don’t do this to children. I could feel immediate judgement of the seemingly permissive parenting style. I was rooting for the son to leave the nest. It turns out, sometimes the adage “Don’t just sit there, do something!” Should be rearranged to “Don’t do something, just sit there!” There is wisdom and strength exhibited when we stop interfering. Maybe nagging parents would have delayed your brother’s journey. Thank you for this gift. I am sorry I am seeing it so late. Sincerely, Dr Dave

incredibly moving. thank you for this.

Dear Yoko. Congratulations for you wonderful work! I walk the Way of Zen and I am in charge of a Zen group in Madrid (Spain). I am also a filmmaker. I wonder if there are a version of "Sit" with Spanish subtitles, so my Sangha may enjoy your film. If not, I would love to translate the fim for you and for anybody who wants to see your film with Spanish subtitles. Thanks a lot!

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Please make more films.

this is so funny and people should look a little deeper than your average liberal "Aww, this is so lovely and touching" The father rebelled against his father (who was probably too oppressive) and in his reaction he went the complete opposite way in raising his son, who is now complaining about the opposite: no direction! Comes to show how empty all ideologies and belief systems really are, when put to the test. "Communicate in silence" and "heart to heart transmission" my ass - utter hippie bs! Good filler for the pop psychology and "spirituality" shelves though, for people who claim to have found zen, or peace or whatever, while rushing from one self-help fix to the next...