The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (Part 1) - On The Transmission of Mind
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- Excerpts read from the text - The Zen Teaching of Huang Po on the Transmission of Mind
Translated by John Blofeld.
Huang-po (Huangbo Xiyun) was an influential Chinese Zen Master, and the teacher of Lin-chi (Rinzai) during the Tang Dynasty. Huángbò was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai (720-840) There is not much information about the life of Huang Po. However he taught in the tradition of Zen Buddhism. Huang Po taught that enlightenment could be achieved by a silent mind and putting an end to conceptual thinking. This is a similar teaching to other Zen Masters such as Bodhidharma and Dogen. Huang Po is one of the most influential of the Chinese Zen masters.
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I have studied buddhism for roughly half my life. At the age of eighty, it has become more difficult to walk on the treadmill and read at the same time. Your recordings have become a beautiful part of my study. Over the years I have turned to Huang Po countless times and considering him to be a kindly and patient grandfather. Your deliberate and carefully enunciated readings have forced me to slow down and really "hear" what my patient grandfather has been trying to say to me over all these years. Thank you.
Hi Jack, thanks for taking the time to connect and I am so pleased to read that you are finding the recordings helpful for your Dhamma practice. Yes, Huang Po is simply priceless - his pointers are so clear, and his words do indeed convey gentleness and kindness. It is interesting how just 'words' on a page (and then spoken) can actually convey so much about the Master and their proclivities, etc. This too along with them being translated make it all the more amazing. May the Master's words continue to bring you great joy, freedom, and Ultimate realisation. With all blessings, Jayasara 🙏
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You may also find Paul Hedderman’s channel useful. He often cites Huang Po.
@@ganazby yes, Paul Hedderman is great, but his talks are almost overwhelming bc of the input he gives. All he says is founded on real insight, but damn he talks a lot and fast
This is beautiful, timelessly human, offering hope to all those feeling doubt, falling into no known things.
If the teachings don't Enlighten you ,Samaneris voice will. How marvelous! ❤
There was only one audio recording of this text available and the guy who made it took it down. This is such an immense gap you are filling with these recordings, thank you so much!
Agreed! I'm so grateful for finding this channel.
Yeah me too I definitely love this teaching I’m gonna be writing it down some more it’s amazing
Thank you!
For many years I have considered Huang Po to be my Teacher. Not one among many -though there are many I adore, but actually my Teacher as if he were in my presence as an active force. It constantly amazes me that words in a book, translated, written in the 9th century (which was a pretty good century of Buddhist Teachers,) carry the living presence of the Teacher. How incredible is that! Thanks so so much as always for the wonderful reading. You are so generous. You probably don't think of yourself that way, but everybody else does.
Huang Po would be proud
ABSOLUTELY Beautiful Samaneri ...... I lose myself in this recording each and every time.
It is just the endless sea of light and STILLNESS!
Thank you. This is most sublime and elevated.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
May all beings realize the truth of mind
Great choice! This is easily one of my favorite teachings.
Dear Samaneri. This is a priceless video. You are doing very superb work. My teacher once said this to me, which goes along with Huang Po. "The story of Truth has been told repeatedly throughout the ages, but it bears telling again. Into the void-like space created by the ego’s realization that in actuality it knows nothing suddenly flows the love of God, like a dam that has been opened. It is as though Divinity had been waiting all these millennia for this final moment. In a moment of serene ecstasy, one is home at last. The Real is so overwhelmingly, obviously, and totally present that it seems incredulous that belief in any other kind of ‘reality’ is even possible. It is like some strange kind of forgetting, like the story of the Hindu god who willed himself to be a cow and then forgot that he had done it and had to be rescued by another of the gods. Sometimes the ego misidentifies itself more specifically as the personality. It thinks, “I am such-and-such a person.” And it says, “Well, that’s who I am.” From this illusion arises the fear that one will lose one’s personality if the ego is relinquished. This is feared as the death of ‘who I am’.
By internal observation, one can differentiate that the personality is a system of learned responses and the persona is not the real ‘I’. The real ‘I’ lies behind and beyond it. One is the witness of that personality, and there is no reason one has to identify with it at all."
"Begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error." -HB
Wow! AT M, I heard those words in the video just exactly as my eyes tell on them in your comment above. Trippy.
Beautiful 🙏
So powerful in simplicity much love to the only ...
Good morning Gary, love you
Thank you so very much, Samaneri Jayasara
Thank you so much for doing this wonderful teaching. I have treasured it since 1958.
This is utterly profound. Thank you 🙏.
wow.. so beautiful.. one of my favorites.. thank you.. peace:)
Thank you, Samaneri Jayasara for this wonderful treasure that is beyond all values! Thank you.
Samaneri, blessings, laughing, waking up at home.
Nothing compares to how I feel when being still and LISTENING! Thank you.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
Thank you so much. Love the Presence you bring to the reading.
Dear SJ this is another jewel , so beautiful. Thank you, gracias, be blessed!
Good work. It's like bathing in the nectar of Dharmic teachings of Ancient India.
Wow! Deep gratitude 🙏
Thank you so much, I loved it!
trans-mission accomplished! thank you for another jewel in the garland of wisdom literature, dear samaneri jayasara!
This has really convinced me that I’m drawn to Zen Buddhism. I’m a former catholic and I can tell you, ritual and performative practice are distractions and empty.
thank you
Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle! 💙☯️
Dear Jayasāra, your readings have taken hold of me. They have reached me when I was ready for them. Tonight as I walked by the ocean in Port Fairy everything suddenly moved for me: radically. I don't think things will ever be the same again. Thankyou.
Excellent. Thank you.
Love you ❤️
Brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you so much from reading this book!
Much Love :)
Thank you !!🙏
Thank you 🙏🏻💕
Thank you so very much! This was truly enlightening! May there be more like you spreading the Light in a world that often seems to be engulfed by darkness!!
Most wonderful!
Thank you for sharing
"Mind alone is the Radiant Jewel from which all things borrow their Temporal Reality." - Lama Anagarika Govinda (from "Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism").
🙌 yes . Thank you 🙏
Perfect narration ! Thank you Dakiny.
The pace and tone are great, thank you for the gaps ~ 🙏 and for creating this
Emaho🙏🙏🙏 How wonderful! Thank you from the depths of my heart for your amazing work, bringing seekers like me such precious gifts of Dharma ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
30 years back a British expatriate named Maggie made a recording of Huang Poh s teachings. Quite a few of us were learning from Venerable Mahinda in Singapore Buddhist Mission during that period n some went on to become monks n nuns.
A great rehash of the dharma. ❤ Just like it’s supposed to be done ❤
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I can say, this recording and narration is SUPERB!
THANK YOU
Samaneri, storms, thunderbolts,torrential rain, samaneri, sunshine, stillness, dew drops, no mind.
Thank you *deep bow*
This is cool ❤
Artistic presentation, friend. Enjoyed it this dark winter evening. Now will listen deeper in the daylight. Just for fun.
So glad to have found this
This is so beautiful. I just found your video. Thank you so much!! It helps so much with my practice and guides me back to the one.
The Muhammad Ali of non duality! Knockout punch.
This Mind should be translated as Spirit. It is quite beyond thinking and thought. Thinking is the act of conditioning Spirit turning it into thought. Buddhahood is to directly intuit Spirit. But this also means leaving the duality of thinker and thought, observer and observed, knower and known. The state of Buddhahood (buddhatā) transcends all mentation. This is also Spirit which transcends the six senses and the five aggregates.
Yes.
Huang Po he know!
Wow. How do I know this and not know it
what kind of flute is played in the end of this recording? if anyone knows please let me know
The shakuhachi. A Japanese and ancient Chinese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.
@@SamaneriJayasara Thank you so much, also grateful for your beautiful work.
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What do they mean with conceptual thinking at 18:00ish?
Thank you as always for this teaching!
I take it to mean abandon the idea that you can realize awakening via concepts and thinking. It is NOT advocating abandoning concepts entirely, but simply to realize that conceptual thought is an impediment to realizing your Buddha nature.
For some reason this video can't be downloaded for offline viewing on the YT app. It's the only one that keeps crashing consistently, I've tested 23 other videos to confirm
What do you think the reason is?😊❤
⚡️One Mind Unconfined 🗝
‘when at last, in a single flash’*
illusions ignite, ashes take flight
*page 35
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
On The Transmission Of Mind
Dream echos take Flight
by Grace’s glimmer
Spiral loose in Night
Eye shift to Shimmer
by Grace’s glimmer
Release and Unfold
Eye shift to Shimmer
Ego’s lie Retold
Release and Unfold
Spiral loose in Night
Ego’s lie Retold
Dream echos take Flight
*page 35
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Hei, can you look me up? I had a dream about a woman who said she follows the techings of Huang Po and than i found this a few years back this happened, were you the one in my dream?
Many times I’ve heard “you cannot use the Buddha to seek the Buddha”
(Mind seeking mind. )
I believe that I am using the mind to seek the Buddha but don’t know how to stop nor do I know if that’s what I am doing.
I’ve had many peak experiences and can tell during meditation when I “drop” in to a state of concentration.
My teacher says we are all usually pretty much in the state which I’ve described when awareness notices the “dropping in.”
He calls it “dog shit awareness ” and or “ordinary mind.”
I just don’t understand but when I inquire “who doesn’t understand “ of course no one is there.
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If you ask a question then you are still there seperate and asking
If you completely let go drop the you into the ocean of truth
When you can totally disappear
You become it but you are now not
As there is no you anymore
No one to ask no one to know you become the knowing that holds on to nothing at all
I didn’t understand a single word being said
not necessary, just listen without trying to understand ..
@@felice9907 lol, what's the point then?
@@gazza18881967 there will be a certain resonance happening inside you, anyway ... believe me, i am speaking from my own experience!
@@felice9907 if the time is right, the master will appear..
That’s the point there is no point. It just is
No mind
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気にしないで
Kein Verstand
Es macht mir nichts aus
This scripture is contradicting itself. It says seeking hinders the ability to find. Yet goes on to talk as it's findable. Therfore encouraging seeking
You cannot see the Buddha mind, the Buddha mind already sees. It's a simple conceptual understanding. But the mind is seen to debate the truth of it, again and again. But it's a logical truth to see.
Once this is taken as genuine truth, then one genuinely understands that who they are, is the only thing remaining forever unseen, yet truely in existence. Deattached to all else , yet able to see all else.
Well, that's just like, your opinion man! Don't smell the pointing finger!
"Begin to reason about it, and you at once fall into error." That OG, HB
@@ATMfromNJ hey, opinion is a factual statement