Spiritual advice from a Swiss-Austrian Zen Buddhist
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Rush, rush, rush. Go, go, go. I recently realized that I rush to get to bed on time. What kind of thing have I become?
Someone in a hamsterwheel
That's a really great question, and one can spend one's life asking it. However, maybe more to the point is, "Who was I before?"
I rush to go to bed too. Our hustle and bustle lives give us hustle and bustle time. I can't stand this vicious cycle much longer.
you become like a zombie, a tool in the hands of a miserable society and world. rest. just rest.
We rush to work so we can accomplish “things”. We rush home from work so we can unwind from the stress we put ourselves under. We rush to our vacation place so we can relax and recharge. The wheel is an apropos symbol of our lives-our precious lives in the human world. We whirl around and around, yet rarely do we really reflect on inner goals. Such is the fate of sentient beings.
Basically what he's advocating for is mindfulness & slow living. Very wise, and very much needed in these hectic and troubled times.
To practice Zen you have to generate the mind of great compassion - the Bodhi mind - and then just sit. This mind aspires to liberate all sentient beings from suffering and to take rebirth until this has been accomplished.
Zen is much more than slow mindful living but it is very difficult to express that using our limited language.
@@stanislawgruszczynski6442 What extra component does it add that isn't present in mindfulness or compassion alone?
@@Cathee.M. I think you’re right in saying mindfulness AND compassion. The compassion part is important, as so much of Buddhism (and I can only speak personally about Mahayana schools) comes out of the Buddha’s teachings on intent and ethics. I think it’s beautiful that many people today are trying to embrace mindfulness practices and other forms of meditation (such as loving-kindness, or “metta” meditations). But the Mahayana traditions also seek to another goal other than mastery of our own minds - we practice so that we can eliminate the barriers between ourselves and others, so that our minds get used to being stronger on their own, but also more loving, grateful, and forgiving towards others. A mindfulness practice on its own might not get that far if it’s not guided by an intention to recognize the causes of our own suffering and a desire to beat it and live the truest life and help others to do that too.
A couple of points I would take issue with from a Buddhist perspective: (1) that human beings are a cancer for the Earth (2) that the "rest of creation will breathe a sigh of relief when we are gone". The point of manifesting as a Zen practitioner is to demonstrate the way to live with wisdom and compassion. And also that Zen, being a form of Mahayana Buddhism, requires the Bodhisattva aspiration i.e. the vow to take rebirth until all sentient beings are liberated from suffering. As a consequence, the "rest of creation" will welcome and supports anyone who is prepared to take rebirth into this suffering world in order to dedicate their life to manifesting their Buddha nature for all beings to learn from and emulate.
The thing is.....he's 100% correct. Even Sir David Attenborough describes humans as a 'plague' on this earth. Humans are destroyers of all things beautiful. The earth (flora and fauna) will heal and flourish when we are gone.
Yes, that jarred with me too.
@@ole01 Your comment does not make sense. Can you rewrite it?
@@ole01 You still are not clear in what you are saying. I will assume that English is your second lauguage though. If you can explain more clearly then I will then respond appropriately.
completely agree. I find very little wisdom in this video. Plenty of ignorance and narcissistic posturing.
FYI this is Vanja Palmers who inherited a fortune of multiple million dollars stemming from his parents who founded the Calida AG (Swiss textile producer) after the Second World War, was a hippy then zen monk for 10 years in California. He is a vegan and an animal rights activist and a big proponent of „sacraments“. His mountain center is part of a longitudinal study on the effects off psilocybin during meditation.
thats beautiful, getting in the zen mood with millions in the bank so theres really nothing to worry about. I had a BS feeling even before watching the entire video
@@tormacsaba2211 Not exactly right, as he is spending mosts of that money on preserving nature and helping people meditate at his "monastary".
I do believe he's genuinly trying to do good, living very simply, and not just "rich guy roleplaying monk".
I just think that the info is an important addition.
@@Smoshfaaaaaaaaaaan good perspective, you might be right
Hello from Canada. This was beyond beautiful. Video, sound, editing all brought the meaning to the forefront. I’m speechless and desperately want to visit this little part of the world. Thanks!
Yes, I agree. Thank you from Finland.
The Zen life seems to me to be a life of transcending the conditioned world in an attempt to converge with the true and become a Buddha (one who has awakened to true reality).
It’s so beautiful to see the comments here.
Ah Buddha brother. your smile, your eyes, blessings to you.
Always live with the beginner's mind.
Beautiful!
Top bloke.
rest in present awareness: be still close eyes listen to your breathing.
Wahnsinnig ästhetisch eure visuelle Dokumentationstechnik!
The conclusions that people draw off of a string of words.
May we all find the nourishment that exists beneath them.
He’s right. If we have any chance this is our chance. The opportunity to turn inward happened to me because of the strain the outside world was having on me. Essentially, how twisted out and frictious I had become inside. So in a way, if this feeling happens to people, I atleast hope they choose to turn inward and not to kill themselves. I practice Kriya yoga and hatha yoga through sadhguru, some practice other things like the man in the video. I hope that before suicide, before intense anti depressants, you try a method that has been tried and true for hundreds or thousands of years. And if that doesn’t work then turn to drugs
Thanks Ryan, well said, I will read about kriya yoga and hatha yoga
DEEP!
Subtítulos en español 🙏
Too many people, too much stress, too much pollution, too much selfishness, no common sense.
Very interesting
Beautiful. Thank you!
🙏🏼💓
yes
Interesting to me that psychedelics tuned him into impermanence. For me it was the opposite, showed me the eternal nature of spacetime and ourselves. But it's two sides of the same coin.
and one day we can see the whole coin and not only one side.
Great, inspirational movie. And I need to add...what a one zen mustard said once: "ja, jaa mad!tation sehr gut arbeit! machts frei...ich bin kein experten aber ich glaube ein should a mad!tation practicieren now and zen!" 😉great calm, anger is not helping at all.
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I agree ☝️
Nmo bhudaye nmo
Our dissappearance will be a sigh of relief for the rest of the beings on this planet. Yes, exactly that.
I have a lot of respect for Zen, especially what was taught by Dōgen Zenji. But when I hear someone refer to humans as cancer, and that the (ironically) personified world would "breathe a sigh of relief" at our extinction, it just seems like more resigned, antihuman depression made worse by retreating from life and tyrannizing the self. There's a balance in all things. Perhaps our humanity is more important than being peaceful.
You are hearing his words about humanity as nihilistic or negative, and seeing him retreat from life.... In fact he is saying that death is invevitable, as.a person or an entire community. This is the way of things. So our only choice is to control our fate with calmness and kindness. Your curiosity on this topic is part of the awakening .
very true! complete opposite of compassionate understanding empathic way of life which the zen buddhism preaches. he is the opposite of a zen buddhist...
@@paragozar you are ignoring his words about humasn being cancerous etc thats genocidal in its spirit
@James McBride well humans haven't in any way made this planet a longer lasting, more healthy system have they? The terminology might be a bit shocking, but the act of killing and destroying our planet for short term gain isn't exactly without its negativity. Maybe it's just so normalised it doesn't seem shocking anymore but for me it is the behaviour rather than the name of the behaviour that is the real issue.
He means cancer as we identified with the ego and make war with the self and with others not because we are humans.
Der Herr hat aber ein sehr destruktives Menschenbild. Ich kann die Formulierung nachvollziehen, ist aber im Zen ungewöhnlich.
Wie kann ich den kontakt herdtellen mit dem zen meister? Es würde mi sehr helfen.
At 4:00, he begins a moral diatribe that you would never find in any Zen poem or teaching. Many Zen masters admonish that we do not concern ourselves with right or wrong, or worry with trying to change the world. In fact some explicitly come out and say to dispense with "compassion." This presenter seems deeply distraught by his own existence. Shame, worry, and moral philosophizing have literally nothing to do with Zen Buddhism. This man is giving his life to a teaching whose benefits he's not even completely enjoying. That's really sad.
But what is sadness?
I have never, ever, heard a zen master say Do not concern with right or wrong, don't try to change the world. What zen master says avoid compassion? What zen master does not experience on occasion, shame, worry, or have an opinion on moral issues? It seems you are thinking of zen masters in a comic book.
Dude, he's learning.
What's next, you go and sit with the third year school students and lament that they weren't yet fluent in Spanish or accomplished mathematics professors?
He's learning, he's trying, he's on his path. Maybe it'll be sensible to stop pretending that he is presenting himself as the finished product!
@@danw918 This. Every teacher on the path of Buddhdharma is also a student. He thought some depressed thoughts and then he said them into the recording device. Not a big deal.
He's concerned with the suffering and liberation of living beings. He is trying to live in a way to show and spread compassion to humans, animals, plants and the entire planet as a living system. To take note of how we humans are negatively affecting countless beings and causing needless suffering is simply a fact. If he's sad to see the suffering, say of the billions of animals tormented and killed in factory farms, that just means he's an alive, awake human.
I would love to go practice with him at Felsentor!
Basically, the human mind is clean and calm. Everyone has the same place to go. that is hell and heaven When the mind is in a state of anxiety can't go to heaven Everything is not predetermined by God. but human custom The Prophet was the guide for the blind. If the Prophet blinds his disciple, he will not reach his destination.
how much does it cost to become a Zen Buddhist?
Is this a riddle?!
This doesn’t answer your question directly, but this is one of the most beautiful and evocative lines from Eliot’s poem, the Four Quartets: “a condition of complete simplicity, costing no less than everything.” Those words seem to me to sum up the Goal.
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How does one become a Buddhist!?
When one sincerely asks that question, then one if already a Buddhist. This person would suggest that you pick up a copy of "The Pillars of Zen," by Roshi Phillip Kapleau, and read it. It's an easy read, and will give one all the information one needs to make a solid start.
Formally, in most traditions it's when you receive the Three Refuges - the Buddha as example and in the form of an awakened, living teacher (who is also Buddha), the Dharma, as in reality instead of beliefs, and practice that comes out of awareness, and the Sangha, or those who you practice together with, as we do this practice with others and cannot do it entirely alone. At the same time, one also takes the Precepts, the touchstones of an awake, ethical life, from an authorized teacher. It's important to do this because it's an outer acknowledgement of something that's happened internally and helps set a direction for future practice and intent. It's also important to bear in mind that Buddhism, the Dharma, is not a belief system, beyond the initial one perhaps that anyone can do what the Buddha did, and as thousands have done since the Buddha, and wake up to and embody reality.
@@ObakuZenCenter Well said.
By not identifying as one or as anything that you put words onto.
@@gra6649 the Book one must read is in of them selves, the mind has all teachings. 🙏🙏🙏
Zen is NOT about chanting, vegetarianism, monastic rituals, logic, reasoning, knowing, scriptural knowledge, science, psychology, philosophy, religion, beliefs, etc.
Zen is "Wu Wei" ( *Lao Tzu -Tao Te Ching* refers) ie "non action in action" or "non-doing" which is _"not doing anything & yet left nothing undone."_
Meaning, in any action or task by One's body & or mind - the egoic self identity I or Me is not there! No One or artificial Oneself is there!
What is "alive doing in life" is One's inner Nature which is inexpressible, inconceivable or unknowable by names, words or forms!
😊🙏🙏🙇♂️
If Zen masters admonish that we do not concern ourselves with right and wrong then what are you doing? 😂😂😂😂
A run away train
相传日本🇯🇵有一个故事，
在明治时代有一个nippon nihon samurai武士就是这样到了一个寺庙里问一个正在禅修的僧侣说道:) 请问什么就是天堂，什么就是地狱呢？
僧侣就是这样继续禅修闭上眼睛在打坐，于是这个samurai武士就是这样生气而大叫:) 私我在问您问题啊！
那僧侣就是这样打开眼睛说道:) 私我就是这样不想跟您这类好勇斗狠的人打交道呢！
那武士就是这样觉得他武士尊荣的身份受到轻视而把武士刀🔪拔出来说道:) 您相不相信私我就是可以用这锋利无比的剑把您砍为两份呢！
那僧侣就是这样说道:) 那这就是地狱呢！
那武士就是这样醒悟知道禅修的大师傅就是这样说明人类的问题就是通常都是一念之间，那一念可以成魔，一念就是这样可以成佛！
所以当武士就是这样醒悟后就是这样鞠躬道歉感谢大师傅之教诲，那僧侣就是这样说道:)那这就是天堂了呢！
very anti humane, uncompassionate, genocidal perspective on humanity. this has nothing to do with zen buddhism. HE didnt understand a single bit about the human soul and society
The soul is an idea created by the ego , there is no self , we are one with everything , must spread loving kindness to all beings because all beings suffer or feel unsatisfactoriness in every life cycle , we must reach enlightenment and help fellow loving beings by understanding reality and spreading compassion. attachment to concepts , ideas and material things just brings more suffering and causes distress or hatred keeps a being in the cause and effect cycle in life
But you did, right? Lol. Wanna know how I know that you don't know fuck all what you're talking about?
I shouldn't go to the youtube comments anymore.
@@tobiaskyon5383 ?
@@Kreidark !
Misanthropic nonsense from someone who desires a larger chunk of this world for himself. What else could it mean when he says that there are too many people? And isn't desiring something - anything - anathema to Buddhism?
But his eyes show sadness and despair rather than peace
that’s your interpretation. i see affection - which can go both ways: ease and dis-ease.
You become what you think
Definitely your interpretation. I see compassion :)
You have no idea what he's feeling, so why project?
I saw absolute peace and assurance. Maybe it's not your time yet.
"If we don't become more compassionate and wiser beings, then it's good that we disappear.
The sooner the better.
The rest of Creation will breathe a sigh of relief when we are gone."
Dont you realise Hinduism and/or Buddhism are the most zen and peaceful religion? I have no hate towards other religions but im starting to observe and realised that Christianity and Islam followers are always arguing and debating. Its painful to see.
Buddhism and Hinduism are similar, like how Christianity and Islam are somewhat similar but you dont see a Hindu and a Buddhist arguing all the time.
@@ole01 sure.. who doesnt argue? but its not as prominent than these two. Try looking on youtube, zero. We are talking about majority. Also who are those people in the forums? Are they usually predominantly westerners? 🫢🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 something for you to reflect.
@@ole01 i know its not a religion, please go back to the main crux of your argument. 🤡