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at 11:29, She Said "Wisdom, Ethics, and compassion." but it is "Wisdom, Ethics, and concentration." Probably it is obious, since she said "Wisdom, Ethics, and concentration." right after that at 11:55..

Hoko said "Suzuki Roshi's "Zazen is good for nothing" at 10:11 but it was Sawaki Roshi's words not Suzuki Roshi's.

Thank you, Roshi. If I had the possibility, I would travel from Europe to your Zendo, just to pay my respect to you and the community, and to sit with you all in Zazen 🙏🙏🙏

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Can you guys augment the audio? Bless you

Another wonderful teaching, thank you.

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Thank you so much for this! 🙏😊

A lot of meaning is different before the 19th century. The idea of someone being “blind” as akin to unenlightened goes back at least to New Testament. It’s kind of a gnostic idea

“Not being blind” to something meant something radically different back then. I have the feeling Dogen meant something like not being conscious of the affectation of cause n “affect” not effect.

This is your best teaching yet. Well done.

Thank you for the teaching.

Thank you for the teaching.

Thank you for the teaching.

Just sitting

The amazing thing is that we all see it as a glass of water! "The mystical power and wondrous function, Carrying water and lugging firewood." - Layman Hōun

„“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.“ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭6‬:‭27‬-‭33‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Okamura Roshi gives clear lectures on profound texts. He has a series on Dogen's view of Buddha Nature, for example, on the Dogen Institute website. Highly enlightening!

Has anyone ever mentioned to you that you look like Dogen? Just saying..

Congratulations, Esho! Thank you for your talk!

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@Gino-ds2ce Speaking of Katagiri, besides having sex with a number of his female students he also attempted to rape a woman closely connected to Mpls. Zen Center, though not a member. She managed to fight him off. I believe attempted rape is a felony. But you don't want to know about things like this. You know. The truth about him. It happened in 1979.

Damn when he starts talking about western industrialization...ugh. Heartbreaking.

Just say, "no." LOL!

subject versus object or anything isn't a contradiction -- we only conceive it as a contradiction because when we grasp one-sidedly "self" or "atman" or "niagra falls" we imbalance Totality so as soon as we objectify anything Totality immediately reminds us that everything is dependently arisen therefore if we say self then immediately no-self arises, if we say no-self then immediately self arises and if we say niagra falls then immediately no niagra falls arises 😂 It's only confusing if we make something substantive and persistent!

Lucky to be able to learn from you, greetings from Poland!

Absolutely epic story about entrance into the way. Wow.

Very touching story about adolescence and the questioning of everything.

I’m not trying to be argumentative, and at the risk of sounding like a total dolt when it comes to Buddhist dogma…🤷‍♀️ how can there not be a self? The only way I can rationalize there not being a self, is in that there is no such thing as consciousnesses. A lot of ppl will argue that there very much is consciousness, I tend to think not. I tend to think that we, and everything else, are just products of conditions, and what we call consciousness, is just different conditions than the insentient…Or, there very much is a self, with autonomy over decision making power. I can focus on the bodhisattva path, or do “what thou wilt.” Who is observing 🤷‍♀️ The Buddha wouldn’t be known, if there wasn’t a self 🤷‍♀️. Isn’t it our total screw ups in life that destroys our sense of self, and brings the Buddha into existence? But someone has to practice in order for that to happen….unless we are just products of conditions 🤷‍♀️ I think something got lost in translation from “mind” to “self”, to “no self.” I get discriminating mind vs no mind. I’m talking about things that cannot be properly described with words, but “mind” to me , as opposed to one’s body, that’s a valuable discrimination.

ancient-buddhist-texts.net/Texts-and-Translations/Jinacaritam-Victorious-Buddha/Jinacaritam-Victorious-Buddha.pdf

Thank you for making these talks available

Haha the guy sat himself to death lolllll. Inspiring!

As an English speaker in Japan I feel so blessed to have these talks because I have not found a living teacher of Zen here to follow, even though my Japanese is pretty good. (I am sure there are some, and if someone wants to tell me who they are, I would very grateful for that, too.)

I wonder what karmic causes led me to listen to this lesson on the Pragnya Paramita today....)) A deep sense of illusion ? Greetings from the land of Po.

thanks and greetings from Poland!

Love from Turkey, thank you sir you have been completely helpful to a kid whom 21 years old student and had some serious questions towards to world therefore the himself. I have been practicing zazen for 1 years and it is good for nothing. I would like to write paragraphs and so on however just i can say is just thank you seriously from my heart.

Could you share the website you mentioned, please? I am interested about the book too, please help me to find it!

Regarding Uchiyama's idea that "Westerners" would require an intellectual explanation of Zazen before they could practice -- that requirement is rooted in the white European academic tradition and has to do with the privileges of hegemony, as well as the white European narrative tradition -- there are many groups of people in the United States that would not have required such an exaggerated approach.

I am grateful for having a chance to listen from across the ocean!

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Deep bow from Australia ❤

What in sangha friends and family gets us to get to the cushion in form of support? Isnt it likely their opinion of us? I recognize my personal problems in regard to growing up the way i have are the cause of my misunderstanding and i presume it has to do with the acceptance of another person's love and care. I just can't see it. I used to be endlessly mocked for practicing. ^ think i found it.

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I am struggling with a decision and i went to sit. I was opening the hand while things arise again and again. I am now done sitting, I gained nothing and i burst out laughing. Thinking that sitting was somehow going to give me the missing piece of the puzzle while logically always saying it is good for nothing 😂.

I think of Buddha and his death like this: Imagine a line of 10 cars stuck in traffic nose to end , stuck very close together that they are basically touching . Then a semi truck comes in at 5000 miles an hour and rear ends the line of cars.. the first car is utterly destroyed, but the momentum continues so much so that even the second car gets damaged beyond repair and the remaining cars all have the momentum carrying through them . Likewise the people around Buddha at the time were completely extinguished and each generation enjoyed proximity to his magnitude. We still feel it today 3000ish years later. I'm in awe of this and I'm grateful to all the people like Hoko Karnegis that proliferate and preserve that "momentum". I wonder if our rebirth is similar to this analogy . We might be the momentum going through all the separate cars and not the cars themselves. (yall notice how hoko karnengis has a glowing head like some angel in this vid? ahhaha )

Is it fair to say that an outcome of our practice in zazen, is at least an attempt at sharpening of deliberation, when it comes to adding weight to our thoughts?

Bro I swear to god, your hair line goes back as far as my rebirths, your talk is excellent and i want to hear more. Fix your head. I will do the same. Bodhidarma came here !

🩵the meaninglessness of the tree - it releases a space within a person which opens to rejoice

thank you 🙏🏼