Kodo Sawaki 沢木 興道 ~ 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧 ~ Zen Buddhism
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- A reading for meditation of excerpts from the text "To You: Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki".
Kodo Sawaki 沢木 興道 (1880 - 1965) was born in Ise, Japan and was a prominent Japanese Sōtō Zen teacher of the 20th century. He is considered to be one of the most significant Zen priests of his time for bringing Zen practice into the lives of laypeople. He has been stated as being "one of the most striking Zen masters of recent times." He was called "Kodo without a home" because he refused to remain in a temple and always travelled alone. He brought with him, a breath of fresh air to the declining practices within zen, reintroducing the universal practice of zazen.
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No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.
Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!
My sermons are criticized by certain audiences. They say that my sermons are hollow, not holy. I agree with them because I myself am not holy. The Buddha's teaching guides people to the place where there is nothing special... People often misunderstand faith as kind of ecstasy of intoxication... True faith is sobering up from such intoxication.
Stop trying to be something special - and just be what you are. Hold fire. Just sit!
It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
Everyone imagines that their ego is something unchangeable, some immovable center-point which everything revolves around.
Buddhism means no self, nothing to gain. You must be one with the universe and all living beings.
When you practice Zen, it has to be here and now, it has to be about yourself. Don’t let Zen become a rumor that has nothing to do with you.
Zazen is the buddha that we form out of our raw flesh.
Zazen means putting into practice that which cannot be thought.
Zazen is the dharma-switch that turns on the whole universe.
When somebody asks me what zazen is good for, I say that zazen isn’t good for anything at all. And then some say that in that case they’d rather stop doing zazen. But what’s running around satisfying your desires good for? What is gambling good for? And dancing? What is it good for to get worked up over winning or losing in baseball? It’s all good for absolutely nothing! That’s why nothing is as sensible as sitting silently in zazen. In the world, “good for nothing” just means that you can’t make money out of it.
Often people ask me how many years they have to practice zazen before it shows results. Zazen has no results. You won’t get anything at all out of zazen.
In true dharma there’s nothing to gain. In false dharma there’s something to gain.
The way of buddha means that there is nothing to seek, nothing to find. If there’s something to find, no matter how much we practice, it’s got nothing to do with the buddha-dharma. If there’s nothing to find that’s the buddha-dharma.
You say you’re seeking the way, but what does it mean if you’re seeking the way just to satisfy yourself?
You want to become a buddha? There’s no need to become a buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?
Zazen means just sitting without even thinking of becoming buddha.
We don’t achieve satori through practice: practice is satori. Each and every step is the goal.
You think that you’re something special because you’ve got satori, but you’re simply showing off your sack of flesh.
When an ordinary person has got satori, he’s called a Zen-devil . This is because he thinks he’s something special.
When people talk about satori, it usually just means that a devil has acquired magical powers.
When you know you’re doing something bad, then it isn’t so serious. But people who chat about their satori don’t even realize they’re doing something bad. That’s why they’re such helpless cases.
No illusion is as hard to cure as satori.
Don’t take pride in your practice. It’s clear that any satori you take pride in is a lie.
You’ve got it backwards if you talk about stages of practice. Practice is satori.
You can’t hold on to your self. The very moment you give your self up, you realize the self which is one with the universe.
Precisely that self which I haven’t thought up is who I really am.
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Naked truth of Satori. Brilliant. 🙏💓
Thank you
"zazen is the dharma switch that turns on the whole universe ... ".
WOW! and - at the same time - the reset button, it seems!
dear samaneri jayasara, thank you again for another precious gift out of your infinite treasure box!
Your voice, your words and everything you are is the Divine infinite love and pure light ☀️♥️☀️
Thank you 🙏🏻 for being! ♥️
After meditation the there was nothing to be gained. After meditation there was everything to lose.
I really really love the directness of this Master. Thank you
So wonderful…clear teachings…🙏🏼
Sawaki Roshi's quotes give me so much strenght to keep doing zazen. Thank you, Jayasara
More of this master please😯
What a great passage! Thank you 🙏🏼
Calm and insightful
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Everyone is a Buddha, they just don't know it yet 😄
Hello Budhdha
Correct
Beautiful !! /\ :) xxx
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Sawaki Roshi… My teacher’s, teacher’s, teacher’s, teacher. 😊 Thank you for this offering 🙏
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Hollowness is Wholeness or Holiness. 🙏
If Zen lit. means "mind movement" Zazen means "sitting still and observing mind movements", including mind chatter about satori. Also this kanji "do" or "dao" in masters name, also consist of 2 characters, for "walking" and for "head". In walking meditation we arrive in each step.
§ (pause, silence) at the end of each sentence is what the sentence is all about.
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@@danielkarlovic1221 you seems Serbian
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Thank you for this. Profoundly grateful. 💜
Very good thank you
So beautiful.. I wonder, what is the name of background music? Thank you🙏🙏🙏
Travis roman - Shakuhachi mindfulness and zen mindfulness
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Excellent quotes and mood.
Between your channel and my kiddo watching bluey I’m beginning to think in Australian
Thanks. This is the monk of the silent illumination school, who described Zazen as 'wonderfully useless', which, on a psychological level, makes sense within the moon-shadow of buddha-nature, and sunyata, and radical non-clinging.
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Thank you for everything thank you for your existence. I was wondering will you one day visit Australia,Brisbane?
:bows: >>> W H A C K >>> :bows:
In Soviet Russia, way seeks you
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