My Dad, a Gulag survivor, on his good days would say "Eat, sleep, shit and be happy. On other days he was the most irate, angry, violent, unhappy person to be around.
Poet Ryokan said: "the flower invites the butterfly with no mind, the butterfly comes, the flower opens; the flower opens, the butterfly comes". This no mind is also present in our physical necessities of eating, sleeping and shitting.
This way of no mind, I have read about it in the writing of Takuan Soho. Do not lose sight of the tree for a single leaf. Watch it all, don't try so hard. A spirit of Taoism runs through this. Even the river is busy, is there peace beneath the surface? Or are we enamoured with the shimmers? Do we really see the river?
ah but now we know that is far from the full story. They have now found the flower has a magnetic field opposite to what the bee or butterfly has. The flower creates this field like a love letter to the butterfly or bee. Like a sirens call. Oh the flower is not just sitting there with no mind, it has a mind and a will to attract the butterfly. And when the butterfly lands the pollen actually flies through the air and attaches to the butterfly, almost like an orgasm the pollen springs forth. When the butterfly lands the magnetic field of the flower changes so that other butterflies will not be attracted to it. That butterfly will have pollen stuck to it and then the next flower may get pollenated by the butterfly, or bee. And so in that way the flower guarantees it will keep procreating on through the centuries as long as it can attract the bees and the butterflies!
@@jn846first what is mind and what is no mind? It is important to put Ryokan's words in the context of zen Buddhist philosophy/worldview. Mind here refers to the constant thinking process which is not always beneficial for our "will to life" or what Spinoza called "the conatus": the fundamental drive of every entity to persist in its own being. This magnetic field of the flower you just described is the scientific explanation of this drive. Same thing, different language. The flower and the bee are interconnected, their will to life guides them towards each other. Without overthinking or sabotaging the process. I think this is the sense in which Ryokan's words could be understood.
This is nonsense. It's just platitudes. Completely meaningless. It has absolutely nothing to do with Zen. Forget what you think you know. You really don't know anything much and unfortunately it shows.
You don't get unhappy or depressed. You are the one that notices that depression or sadness is present in the body. Your the silent observer who notices things occurring but has no control of them and isn't affected by them. You are like the sky and emotions, thoughts, and feelings are like the clouds. Clouds can't hurt or affect the sky but the sky can watch and observe the clouds. The sky remains detached from the clouds.
wavy gravy asked a zen master what happens after we die... the master said he didn't know... but, protested wavy, you are a zen master!.. yeah, the master answered, but I'm not a fucking dead one... Miraculous power and marvelous activity Drawing water and chopping wood. (Pangyun, a lay Zen practitioner, eight century C.E.)
It makes me happy too, as i feel these few words together as a poem unburdens the mass of the upturned pyramid of the rely-gones, the fear of death instilled along with all its pressures upon our shoulders. Perhaps the person missing that bit of rib and feeling the most pain will one day hear this simple poem. ThankYou☘️
Who is your favourite zen Master? You, you, you. Get it? Cause everybody is a Zen Master. That's the secret. But it's not a secret, it's a matter of realising it.
To shit well is most important. I learned this at a very young age. All other things fall into positions of lesser degree. One other thing of high importance is to check weather before sailing. Best to not concern one's self with anything else.
Thank you for your inspiration, on Eat, Sleep, Shit and then we can say: "Aloha Paradise", and just be thankfulness for now we are in Paradise. Amen. Much Blessings!!!
I love the sentiment that, if I ever think I really need more than “eat, sleep, and, shit”, that’s a problem. And I suppose if I ask my self what the nature of that problem is, when I’m in that situation, it will probably lead me to a great discovery. Thx for the video 🙏🫶✌️😎
There is nothing to learn, nothing that needs improving, nothing you need to gain or achieve. Don't be a painter trying to add layers of unnecessary paint onto the canvas of you. Instead be a sculptor and chip away at the conditioning, the illusion, the lies, the false self. We don't live to love, as love isn't something we do, it's what we are. There is nobody here to do anything anyway. There is no you.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life What nonsense. Nothing to learn. So you never learned to write or speak? Nothing to improve? So if you had a broken leg you wouldnt go and get it set by a surgeon? So if you are partaking in the sculptor anology are you not learning and improving....... Isn't caring, contributing etc. loving things we DO... New Age delusion.
That would make a great bumper sticker. It's utter nonsense of course and you have no idea what even your own life is about but thanks for the good laugh. :)
Zen Master Gu Ja 🙏🙏🙏 Once a Zen master asked SK Sum, _"How do you practice Zen?"_ SK Sum replied, _"To eat when hungry, to rest when tired, to shit when necessary."_ Zen master retorted, _"Then you are not different from others!"_ SK Sum replied, _"Not sir, when others eat, they think & worry of many things, when they rest, they dream & have many nightmares, then they forget to shit to suffer constipation!"_ 😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
May I ask what the sound is at the beginning of this video? I love the clicking noise, I am not a zen person, but I am sure, that that sound is made for ceremony/meditation. Thanx!
Guja, you forgot something. Ikyu also liked to go to the brothel or have fun with his beautiful Shin. But if Zen is no longer there, it would be very pathetic. What do you think of compassion and active, real love?
Eat when hungry, Drink when thirsty; Rest when tired! Finish your porridge? Go wash your bowl! (Anyway, all these are 'dead' words with 'dead' meanings, unless you have had an intense experience of it within yourself!)
I would add, connection with God. Old age is the point where a person is going to leave this world. The greatest gift God can give a person towards the end of their life is the realization that it's only about me and you. That's it. Your children that you though you could rely on, they're disgusted by you. Your body which you thought was you, it's not you. Your money doesn't mean anything. You're almost trapped inside of your mind. The mind is still there on the inside even though there's not a lot going on on the outside. What's a person do on the inside? Crate that connection with God. Creating intimacy. The greatest gift you can give someone before they leave this world is tell them, look, don't make any mistakes anymore. That third dimension that you've ignored throughout your life, and never really spent time to nourish, that connection with me, now I'm giving you that opportunity, because everything else is gone. It's just you and me. That's what's happening. What people on the outside can't see. that's what's being created on the inside. The most profound moment in life is the moment just before you die. Do you know why? Because that moment just before you die, you have the total realization that, "God, it's just about me and you and nothing else" Everything else was an illusion.
Love is form of attachment. It's compassion that truly bind us compassion= suffer together... If you love someone their is always to hate someone. If you find someone beautiful their is always that you find ugly.
in practice he is saying that the human being should regress to the state of an involuted animal... it is not at all because the human being is a grandiose being in all his mental complexity and it is not at all true that desire causes suffering, suffering arises from the lack of knowledge rooted in the ego of the human being... therefore it is necessary to know how to stop and detach oneself from one's own sense of ego or at least manage it in the best possible way... once the human being is deprived of desire it becomes a bad thing inexpressive... the true purpose of life is not to annihilate oneself in it but to become conscientiously eternal... now I understand why Buddhism born in India is present throughout Asia, even in India itself 😅
First of all, this teacher is a woman, not a man. Secondly, no you've completely missed the point. Watch the actual video before commenting in future. If nothing else, it will save you embarrassing yourself as you just did.
@@angel-kitty-inuyasha In Kwan Um monks cannot marry. Unless they changed that rule recently. What makes you think she is a nun? In Soto Zen monks can marry.
Why would anyone love a complete fabrication? LMAO! How bizarre. Also, why are you being so deliberately intolerant? Buddhist are not Christians and not theists. Take your ignorance and bigotry elsewhere.
@Lee-yn1by You have missed the entire point of the lesson. Next time listen, don't get sidetracked and distracted by the thoughts, they are nonsense and only mislead you down the wrong path.
@@nsbd90now That's ok I don't concern myself with the eternal Tao, these days, it's overrated anyway, instead I focus on the Tao of Pooh as I can joke about it all I want with him. 😂
It reminds me of the joke by george carlin about why he hates self-help. He said, "What's so hard about life? You wake up, you eat. You sh*t you, go to work, come home, smoke a joint, and go to bed. What's so hard about that?
When you meet someone in Zen who is clearly awakened....then you can trust your Zen instructor. I've met thousands of Zen practitioners/instructors and non are awakend(nor am I). I've gotten rid of Zen masters and now follow neuroscience. It's far more effective unless you find a neuroscientist who teaches Zen Best wishes to you🙏
It’s impossible for a student to accurately judge whether anyone is awakened or not. That includes themselves. That being said the teacher clicks or they don’t. I get actually get more from my fellow sangha members than I do the teachers. The teacher is there to play a role, and a good student will apply themselves diligently regardless of the attainment of the teacher. I see it as a path that one travels their entire life. Stepping on and off the path is actually almost necessary because over decades we go through stages and sometimes we must strike out on our own, even if we come back later, perhaps even in another community.
So funny, it's hysterical to think that all of life and the many actions we take that we think have meaning all boils down to eating, sleeping, and shitting. At least according to some Zen Masters. I laughed out loud because of the irony how we think everything little thing we do like amassing a fortune or having a big family has so much meaning, but in the end it really means nothing at all. But then on the other hand even eating, sleeping, and taking a huge dump can be done with mindfulness. For someone following a mindfulness path mindfulness is the essential state of being. No matter what you do - eating, sleeping, pooping included! It's kind of the Yang to the Yin. No mind / mindfulness! Which do you prefer?
quote; " no life, no death", " find this point". The physical source that formed at its inception at an epoch to form the intelligent species is just that (the point), because the correct elements formulae that must fuse and initiate its iteration function is not life but a precursor of itself being correct elements to fuse to iterate and that physical entity requires a symbiotic relationship with biology to fulfil and complete its end result which is to form the intelligent species physical body and brain. That initial physical entity that formed is not of life nor death because it is only an elements iteration function encased in biology which is passed on via conception by the reproductive system that it formed.
I see; so the homeless person who recently yelled "eat shit and die!" at me recently was just giving me some friendly Zen advice after all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe was recommending the 2010 Julia Roberts/Javier Bardem movie and got a bit mixed up
eat shit and die is completely different to east sleep and shit! so wake up !
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
hahahaha
That laughter made me relaxed. Why do we miss this simplicity.
people miss it because they lost the habit/skill/muscle of being okay with being bored. constantly chase after stimulation will bring only misery.
My Dad, a Gulag survivor, on his good days would say "Eat, sleep, shit and be happy. On other days he was the most irate, angry, violent, unhappy person to be around.
What's your point?
@@secretagent4610 those were the days he did not eat, sleep or shat.
This was a good one. It feels better when Zen leaders have a sense of humor, it comes off as very confident.
Poet Ryokan said: "the flower invites the butterfly with no mind, the butterfly comes, the flower opens; the flower opens, the butterfly comes". This no mind is also present in our physical necessities of eating, sleeping and shitting.
This way of no mind, I have read about it in the writing of Takuan Soho. Do not lose sight of the tree for a single leaf. Watch it all, don't try so hard. A spirit of Taoism runs through this. Even the river is busy, is there peace beneath the surface? Or are we enamoured with the shimmers? Do we really see the river?
Lovely
ah but now we know that is far from the full story. They have now found the flower has a magnetic field opposite to what the bee or butterfly has. The flower creates this field like a love letter to the butterfly or bee. Like a sirens call. Oh the flower is not just sitting there with no mind, it has a mind and a will to attract the butterfly. And when the butterfly lands the pollen actually flies through the air and attaches to the butterfly, almost like an orgasm the pollen springs forth. When the butterfly lands the magnetic field of the flower changes so that other butterflies will not be attracted to it. That butterfly will have pollen stuck to it and then the next flower may get pollenated by the butterfly, or bee. And so in that way the flower guarantees it will keep procreating on through the centuries as long as it can attract the bees and the butterflies!
@@jn846first what is mind and what is no mind? It is important to put Ryokan's words in the context of zen Buddhist philosophy/worldview.
Mind here refers to the constant thinking process which is not always beneficial for our "will to life" or what Spinoza called "the conatus": the fundamental drive of every entity to persist in its own being.
This magnetic field of the flower you just described is the scientific explanation of this drive. Same thing, different language.
The flower and the bee are interconnected, their will to life guides them towards each other. Without overthinking or sabotaging the process.
I think this is the sense in which Ryokan's words could be understood.
@@jn846 No thinking mind. No mind does not mean nothing.
Be and breathe friend. Neither future nor past can reach you in the now. It is in the now you have that high awareness of being. Keep creating!
This is nonsense. It's just platitudes. Completely meaningless. It has absolutely nothing to do with Zen. Forget what you think you know. You really don't know anything much and unfortunately it shows.
On that basis, my Great Dane is a high Zen master 😂
Love this 😂
and my rabbit, wtf
@@trmp9923 🤣
Does a dog have Buddha nature?
That's the point exactly....
When I get unhappy, depressed I return to this video. It is so simple and profound.
Мудрость востока👆👆👆 иншалла
Follow the instructions on it and you won't have to keep returning.
@@citizent6999 yes bro. I remind myself everyday about this.
You don't get unhappy or depressed. You are the one that notices that depression or sadness is present in the body. Your the silent observer who notices things occurring but has no control of them and isn't affected by them. You are like the sky and emotions, thoughts, and feelings are like the clouds. Clouds can't hurt or affect the sky but the sky can watch and observe the clouds. The sky remains detached from the clouds.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life Beautiful, poetic but makes no sence to me. Sorry.
Wow this is the most powerful lesson I've listened, the most clear one, and the most essential. Thank you so much
wavy gravy asked a zen master what happens after we die... the master said he didn't know... but, protested wavy, you are a zen master!.. yeah, the master answered, but I'm not a fucking dead one...
Miraculous power and marvelous activity
Drawing water and chopping wood.
(Pangyun, a lay Zen practitioner, eight century C.E.)
😁
was he really that rude and use the word F, common, there is no need for this!
@@samghising2170word is a word.
@@samghising2170it adds spice to it
@@samghising2170 what is it to be rude? Is rudeness not merely a construct? ❤🙏
Zen is so joyful, I love it.
Its humbling
It makes me happy too, as i feel these few words together as a poem unburdens the mass of the upturned pyramid of the rely-gones, the fear of death instilled along with all its pressures upon our shoulders. Perhaps the person missing that bit of rib and feeling the most pain will one day hear this simple poem.
ThankYou☘️
Who is your favourite zen Master? You, you, you. Get it? Cause everybody is a Zen Master. That's the secret. But it's not a secret, it's a matter of realising it.
master po is my favorite. he always got to the meat of things
Thanks
Amazing woman. Student asked her something and she answered it as a koan instantly. That shows how advanced she is.
Oh gosch das ist wunderschön... einmalig. Namaste.
To shit well is most important. I learned this at a very young age. All other things fall into positions of lesser degree. One other thing of high importance is to check weather before sailing. Best to not concern one's self with anything else.
Is this the next step in the evolution of Live Love Laugh?
Superb.
Any zen talk including 'Ficken, fressen, fernseh'n' geht's my thumbs up, no hesitation.❤😅
"...What is that, that is doing this? find this point (slap). No life. No death." Brilliant. And hilarious too.
I don't get it
Absence of Awareness is Death. There is no other Death.
Best post I have ever read.
Beautiful woman. A wonderfully intense few minutes. To keep coming back to.
Thank you for your inspiration, on Eat, Sleep, Shit and then we can say: "Aloha Paradise", and just be thankfulness for now we are in Paradise. Amen. Much Blessings!!!
This has nothing to do with any notion of 'Paradise'.
Quite the opposite.
Please explain, not sure what you mean.@@swyveu
Needed this. Thank you.
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” Zen Master Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dear, Master: Please
If one day you come
Looking for me,
Ask for me
At the fishmonger's,
In the tavern,
Or in the brothel.
Thanks ❤️
She's such a gem. Such an enlightened spirit.
pshh...just an ordinary person ..she forgot about the boyfriend program...eat sleep shit and push his girlfriend's shit in haha
"Chop Wood Carry Water" " ESSD"
Sip water slowly...💫 Great Teaching, x
“˹He is the One˺ Who created death and life in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving.”
Al-Mulk / 2
Take your intolerance and bigotry somewhere else, or get banned from TH-cam.
A true Zen Master! Well said, well done!
Excellent teaching
Beautiful. There is always the knower behind all thoughts/actions!!!
I love the sentiment that, if I ever think I really need more than “eat, sleep, and, shit”, that’s a problem. And I suppose if I ask my self what the nature of that problem is, when I’m in that situation, it will probably lead me to a great discovery.
Thx for the video 🙏🫶✌️😎
We live to Love also . To learn.
There is nothing to learn, nothing that needs improving, nothing you need to gain or achieve. Don't be a painter trying to add layers of unnecessary paint onto the canvas of you. Instead be a sculptor and chip away at the conditioning, the illusion, the lies, the false self. We don't live to love, as love isn't something we do, it's what we are. There is nobody here to do anything anyway. There is no you.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life What nonsense. Nothing to learn. So you never learned to write or speak? Nothing to improve? So if you had a broken leg you wouldnt go and get it set by a surgeon? So if you are partaking in the sculptor anology are you not learning and improving....... Isn't caring, contributing etc. loving things we DO...
New Age delusion.
your response resounded with me at this point in my life@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life
We do not come in to life,we are life, and life is God.We as sentient beings were created by the Devine and have always been, eternal.
That would make a great bumper sticker. It's utter nonsense of course and you have no idea what even your own life is about but thanks for the good laugh. :)
The way she delivered that point at the end 😮❤
what is this video about?
Zen priests are the only religious people I've seem who actually seem lively and happy.
Cuz they're not religious. Religion = system of thought zen is more so a philosophy of life rather than a rule system.
@@ssoshred8839 So says every sect. Anyway idgaf what it's called, the proof is how happy the priests/teachers look.
Brilliant. I love it.
JAI BABAJI 🌳🌺🌷🌸🌻🌼💐🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏JAI MAA 🌻🌸🌼🌳🌺💐🌷🎄🌹❤️🦚🪷🙏
It is what i want in life .To be able to eat and shit in peace.That is a life
I was very inspired first thing in the morning Grest work!
What is life force? How does it work?
Someone finally came up with the meaning of life. Bravo!
Listen to this lady, she's being honest, a long-forgotten concept in today's world apparently.......
Don't forget Sleep.
Wonderful, take me back to my junior playground!!
Finally someone that speak upon the essential 🙂🙄🙌
Ahh you have taught me the way master
Zen Master Gu Ja 🙏🙏🙏
Once a Zen master asked SK Sum, _"How do you practice Zen?"_
SK Sum replied, _"To eat when hungry, to rest when tired, to shit when necessary."_
Zen master retorted, _"Then you are not different from others!"_
SK Sum replied, _"Not sir, when others eat, they think & worry of many things, when they rest, they dream & have many nightmares, then they forget to shit to suffer constipation!"_
😊🙏🙇♂️🌷
We're almost like plants really you know..... Just kind of water them and stuff.... Brilliant!
I have just been enlightened!! Wow. Better get off the seat of leisure now. 🙏🏼🌸
Nirvana, the putting out of the flame of desire. 🌬️💨🕯️
I blow into my lungs
I blow into the world.
i blow into my bag of fries to cool them
Thats what I have been doing for 40 years. A Hokikomori practicing Non Doing Zen.
MUSHOTOKU SHIKANTAZA GASSHÒ 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤️🔥
This is a wonderful teaching, from a wonderful teacher.
Thank you! 🙏🏼
May I ask what the sound is at the beginning of this video? I love the clicking noise, I am not a zen person, but I am sure, that that sound is made for ceremony/meditation. Thanx!
its just called a 'temple block' or 'wooden fish'. you can buy them quite cheap :¬)
What an incredibly cool teacher!!!!
Finally, someone teaches Zen
Aah to be in her presence...... This is Love ❤
Nope. You're missing the point.
Alan Watts approves this message.
Exactly😅
Guja, you forgot something. Ikyu also liked to go to the brothel or have fun with his beautiful Shin. But if Zen is no longer there, it would be very pathetic. What do you think of compassion and active, real love?
What are you? dead or alive@Davison-Cale
@Davison-Cale
I remember reading one Zen Master saying When Hungry I eat
When hungry eat when tired sleep.
Eat when hungry,
Drink when thirsty;
Rest when tired!
Finish your porridge?
Go wash your bowl!
(Anyway, all these are 'dead' words with 'dead' meanings, unless you have had an intense experience of it within yourself!)
Don John in 'Much Ado About Nothing' gets it.
No life, no death just perfection!❤
I would add, connection with God.
Old age is the point where a person is going to leave this world. The greatest gift God can give a person towards the end of their life is the realization that it's only about me and you. That's it. Your children that you though you could rely on, they're disgusted by you. Your body which you thought was you, it's not you. Your money doesn't mean anything. You're almost trapped inside of your mind. The mind is still there on the inside even though there's not a lot going on on the outside. What's a person do on the inside? Crate that connection with God. Creating intimacy. The greatest gift you can give someone before they leave this world is tell them, look, don't make any mistakes anymore. That third dimension that you've ignored throughout your life, and never really spent time to nourish, that connection with me, now I'm giving you that opportunity, because everything else is gone. It's just you and me. That's what's happening.
What people on the outside can't see. that's what's being created on the inside. The most profound moment in life is the moment just before you die. Do you know why? Because that moment just before you die, you have the total realization that, "God, it's just about me and you and nothing else" Everything else was an illusion.
It's the same old question: 6:16 "Who am I?"
i would have loved it if we just came here to eat, sleep, and shit but that is not possible without working like dog
She forgot to say: laugh and love...but she is exercising it anyway
Love is form of attachment. It's compassion that truly bind us compassion= suffer together... If you love someone their is always to hate someone. If you find someone beautiful their is always that you find ugly.
Hapchang master. So helpful
Well what is this?
in practice he is saying that the human being should regress to the state of an involuted animal... it is not at all because the human being is a grandiose being in all his mental complexity and it is not at all true that desire causes suffering, suffering arises from the lack of knowledge rooted in the ego of the human being... therefore it is necessary to know how to stop and detach oneself from one's own sense of ego or at least manage it in the best possible way... once the human being is deprived of desire it becomes a bad thing inexpressive... the true purpose of life is not to annihilate oneself in it but to become conscientiously eternal... now I understand why Buddhism born in India is present throughout Asia, even in India itself 😅
First of all, this teacher is a woman, not a man. Secondly, no you've completely missed the point. Watch the actual video before commenting in future. If nothing else, it will save you embarrassing yourself as you just did.
Better than "Eat Pray Love".
Kind of makes sense.
이런 표현하면 실례될지 모르겠지만,너무 귀여우십니다.
She's a nun, friend
@@angel-kitty-inuyasha And she’s a woman, and a damn good looking one at that.
@@angel-kitty-inuyasha No, Zen master Gu Ja is married.
@@romanryuninvalek487 she's still a nun. My teacher's married but he's still a monk.
@@angel-kitty-inuyasha In Kwan Um monks cannot marry. Unless they changed that rule recently. What makes you think she is a nun? In Soto Zen monks can marry.
How about Loving God...
Why would anyone love a complete fabrication? LMAO! How bizarre. Also, why are you being so deliberately intolerant? Buddhist are not Christians and not theists. Take your ignorance and bigotry elsewhere.
🤩🙏🥰
Embrace
Detach
Dance
✨☀️🌼☀️✨
Thanks for the tip on how to practice 5 Rhythms ....😊
(and life😊)
Again... no Polish (in yt translations)
(I don't know how it works, but why?..)
It’s not an important language.
Are we not here also to reproduce?
@Lee-yn1by You have missed the entire point of the lesson. Next time listen, don't get sidetracked and distracted by the thoughts, they are nonsense and only mislead you down the wrong path.
It is an inspiring poem. I've been forgetting to shit.
"Everyone shall find bliss in his own fashion" - "Jeder soll nach seiner Façon selig werden" - as Frederick II, King of Prussia, said.
Thanks.
"Maybe you could add more things?" How about... 10,000 things? lol!
My favorite comment here! LOL!
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life The Tao that can be joked about is not the eternal Tao. 😆
@@nsbd90now That's ok I don't concern myself with the eternal Tao, these days, it's overrated anyway, instead I focus on the Tao of Pooh as I can joke about it all I want with him. 😂
I'm healed 😅
As soon as you add fukin to that list like she suggests, all of a sudden things start getting pretty complicated.
I feel like I've wasted my time; and people would say I am just Zen enough.
I think this is a video that will have different meanings the more I return to it. Right now, I’m not sure I fully understand, and that’s my truth.
It reminds me of the joke by george carlin about why he hates self-help. He said, "What's so hard about life? You wake up, you eat. You sh*t you, go to work, come home, smoke a joint, and go to bed. What's so hard about that?
When you meet someone in Zen who is clearly awakened....then you can trust your Zen instructor. I've met thousands of Zen practitioners/instructors and non are awakend(nor am I). I've gotten rid of Zen masters and now follow neuroscience. It's far more effective unless you find a neuroscientist who teaches Zen Best wishes to you🙏
It’s impossible for a student to accurately judge whether anyone is awakened or not. That includes themselves.
That being said the teacher clicks or they don’t.
I get actually get more from my fellow sangha members than I do the teachers. The teacher is there to play a role, and a good student will apply themselves diligently regardless of the attainment of the teacher.
I see it as a path that one travels their entire life. Stepping on and off the path is actually almost necessary because over decades we go through stages and sometimes we must strike out on our own, even if we come back later, perhaps even in another community.
Homage to the Tathāgata.
当地租户请帮忙 他不让我在家做任何活动
beautiful, the I AM
Hello
I like to think Prajnatara had this kind of attitude.
I notice that three things that you can postpone but you must do in the end - eating, sleeping and shitting - are preparing you for the last one!
"what is that that is doing this.... ❤❤❤❤"
So funny, it's hysterical to think that all of life and the many actions we take that we think have meaning all boils down to eating, sleeping, and shitting. At least according to some Zen Masters. I laughed out loud because of the irony how we think everything little thing we do like amassing a fortune or having a big family has so much meaning, but in the end it really means nothing at all.
But then on the other hand even eating, sleeping, and taking a huge dump can be done with mindfulness. For someone following a mindfulness path mindfulness is the essential state of being. No matter what you do - eating, sleeping, pooping included! It's kind of the Yang to the Yin. No mind / mindfulness! Which do you prefer?
We should live to do good. Not do evil things.
quote; " no life, no death", " find this point".
The physical source that formed at its inception at an epoch to form the intelligent species is just that (the point), because the correct elements formulae that must fuse and initiate its iteration function is not life but a precursor of itself being correct elements to fuse to iterate and that physical entity requires a symbiotic relationship with biology to fulfil and complete its end result which is to form the intelligent species physical body and brain.
That initial physical entity that formed is not of life nor death because it is only an elements iteration function encased in biology which is passed on via conception by the reproductive system that it formed.
Eat, sleep, shit repeat. I've got it! I'm enlightened!
Lol zen is not that. Zen is all about self exparience.. Any video can't make you enlightned
Just be in vegetative state or like an animal if you only follow physiological needs and biological drives.