exist completely independently if so everybody exists exists in the domain of the exclamatory self something like this even though I said or I am on the friendly terms with Gene or Kathy or something or all of you strictly speaking I can't understand you completely what I can understand you is a partial aspect of your life

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in terms of which is shown in the domain of your character you know I can't understand a partial aspect of your life that I can't see, I can't understand, that's all I cannot understand all of you because from this point you know you exist, you exist on the basis of the exclamatory self

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there is nothing to discuss, there is nothing to give a great simple thing in the world if so there is, if so we think there is nothing to have relation with the others or characters actually the human being cannot exist without relation with character or circumstances education, language or appearance or race or histories etc then how should we, how should we have relation with others

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then this is you know the second picture, low picture you know you will find a line on the top of the head of the man one line like this it means we can't have relation with others through the head, through our heads in other words through our heads, through our language something like that in other words this is language in the bible there exists first a word, word exists in this world first something like that

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through this word language we recognize that human being has close relation with each other this is the second picture and then through the word, through your head and a certain harmonious, harmonious word comes to existence this is the third word, third picture in this world, in this world in this world which is created which is created by word or by our heads

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we can recognize many things, many things which we can ask to lend and borrow or we can have, we can have give and take give and take this word is give and take through the head, through the words we can create the give and take world this is third picture then fourth picture, there is some pictures you know this picture funny picture this is stage, this is stage of paper play

[06:32]

paper play or this is stage of puppet, puppet show puppet show then it says money and happiness money and happiness and this guys, several guys looking at, looking at the money and happiness and rush into it pictures and here it says poverty and unhappiness and this several guys, these several guys run away from the happiness and poverty this stage, this stage is created by our head, our head

[07:38]

or brain then human being is looking for, looking for something or escaping from, escaping away from this keeping away from something this is the world, this is world of the stage stage which is created by human being then the lower, lower picture is lower picture is saying many policies or principles or religions or morals many principles or morals or political policy

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or economy or communism or asceticism or buddhism or christian, christianity such and such mahomet or jewish and also in this, in this stage, in this stage you know human being try to rely upon some principles i am buddhist buddhist is best one, you should believe in buddhism i am christian, christianity is great you should believe, you should believe christianity otherwise you cannot find happiness then the jewish and buddhism and christianity

[09:42]

are fighting with each other like this this is stage it says, he says, uchiyama always says in this stage there are human being in this, in this stage implies, implies that human being is how to say in their dotage in their dotage in their dotage by the groups, by the principles or by the policies policies in japanese we say group boke

[10:45]

boke means to be dotage to be dotage you know please be careful to be on the dotage not to be on the dotage even though you stay in zen center and practice zazen if you are on the dotage if you are on your dotage by the group so called zen center you cannot find the real self so even though you believe dotage what do you mean? you don't understand? it means old age old age on the dole? it means your brain doesn't work clearly clearly because you are always delighted and crazy about staying in the group

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you know your brain is not clearly working because you are always very happy if you stay in the group you know your life is encouraged by something by something group or policy or principle of buddhism or christianity or jewish or mahomet that's why you say you should believe in christianity otherwise you cannot find happiness even though if so how should a man

[12:52]

who cannot believe in any kind of religion cannot believe in any kind of religion live in this world? is it true that that man who can believe only the buddhism or religion can live properly in this world? i don't think so even though you cannot believe in any kind of religion you are entitled to live to live in this world properly so we have to this scripture says tell us please be careful not to be not to be on the dotage i translated dotage always if you get always your mind

[13:54]

your own head your brains or just conforming, over conforming over? over conforming over conforming over conforming bokero means in japanese bokero means like this even though everybody ask hey, what's the matter with you? nothing happens hey, chill out nothing happens this is bokero bokero you couldn't find anything by yourself because you think a certain policy

[14:58]

certain principles occupies your your brains so your brain cannot see anything else so buddhism buddhism says hey, what's the matter with you? he cannot understand like this because his brain is filled with christianity or jewish or mahomet he cannot see there is no room to see anything else so buddhism says be careful what's the matter with you? chill out i don't care this is this is bokero so if you look at the history not only of not only japan america

[16:02]

or england any country human being create human being repeat same troubles in the domain of being dotage of mind dotage of mind so at that time many people gave advice be careful, what's the matter with you? it's wrong something wrong please come this way but he always hold something closely firmly and he never think, he never think let his hand open it's very dangerous even though buddhism is one of great religions if you

[17:04]

stick to the buddhism in the domain in the state of being dotage of the mind it's very dangerous for you even the buddhism is very dangerous and fifth picture is like this this is the man this is man is sitting this is man who is sitting and this stage is his head even though you sit meditation you can't see many things in your head

[18:04]

something like this this is stage stage where many things is running showing showing money, happiness or poverty or unhappiness principle of buddhism or christianity then someone running away or someone seeking for something there are many groups so called christianity or buddhism or jewish many things then even though you sit meditation you find many things in your brain but important point even this stage even this stage is

[19:06]

exist on the basis of the zen the zen means life force more life more life but problem is as mentioned the other day that human being make it into our head that you know to plunge to plunge your energy your energy into this stage in order to show something is all that you have to do in this world this is problem this is trouble for us without ignoring without ignoring their life force

[20:07]

why is it you can see something like a show why is it you can understand time through the clock through the watch why is it your head your thought is exercised before your thought your brain are exercised there is something more than more than your thought your brain what is [...] to make your life make your life

[21:12]

to make your thought to be exercised make your brain to be exercised what is what is it I think life force but strictly speaking we cannot explain even any word even in any even in any word but I said I explained this as life force but strictly speaking the great fact which you are alive vividly before your thought before your thought, your brain your all organs are exercised

[22:15]

I think this is life force it is big word which we cannot explain by any word that's why if Buddhists according to the technology of Buddhism Buddhism says the smaller or emptiness or mood or practice and enlightenment are not spreading into two or oneness in practice enlightenment

[23:15]

or something like that if you cannot follow the particular usage of religion I think the power of nature or life force or no word then the last picture is this round circle, a man man stands in the middle of the circle the circle implies the world where you can experience

[24:18]

directly directly absolutely as the exclamatory exclamatory self exclamatory self saying out like that this is direct expression experience man is man man completely exists right in the middle of the direct experience regarded as exclamatory self this is the last picture this is if you want to see it, please pause it do you have a question? you speak that

[25:22]

the Buddha says to take refuge in the self I thought Buddha taught that there was no self ah no the that's why the in the next verse the as Shakyamuni Buddha says you take refuge in the Dham in the Dham the self which you have thought usually is the self who is created by something like egos in terms of narrow narrow in terms of narrow telescope this is the self

[26:23]

which you understand which is understood by yourself by your telescope if so you cannot you cannot the great great relationship with the others or all sentient beings as that picture explains you know of course relationship is created by by the world of the brain or head but actually in this world human beings create troubles because they always attach to their own viewpoint their own principle

[27:24]

or policy in terms of Buddhism in terms of Christianity in terms of Jewish Jewish or in terms of Communism something like that not fight in this in that world of your brain we are always creating many troubles because all we have to do is to risk our life our life only to to jump into the brain into the brain that's all this is all that we have

[28:24]

to do we guess this is troubles then as Dogen then says very often we have to practice of kike onza kike means return kike means home onza means settle in sitting settle in sitting settle on yourself in sitting this is kike onza kike onza means what what is to your to make your life alive in other words you have to return you have to return to your life force life force regardless of the ideas

[29:25]

regardless of the function of the brain head when you return to when you return to the life force when you return to the life force when you return to the life force

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last night I explained briefly the first passages first passage zenki in shobo genzo the first passage is very important point particularly the first verse is the great Tao of Buddha the great Tao of Buddha Tathagata is

[31:30]

ultimately the full understanding of emancipation and manifestation then Dogen Zenji tries to explain what emancipation is or what manifestation is in first paragraph or second paragraph is Dogen's statement the great Tao of Buddha Tathagata is ultimately full understanding of emancipation and manifestation in Japanese

[32:30]

emancipation is written in by two words Tō Tō means Tō means to go through to penetrate or to clean to clean for instance as if to clean is the state the state of something the state of water is completely clear completely clear this is Tō or to penetrate penetrate every inch of world Datsu means

[33:33]

Datsu means to to get rid of to get rid of to be free from to be free from this is Datsu so I translate this Tō Datsu the emancipation in English in Japanese the word Tō Datsu has profound more profound meaning than English words Tō Datsu is emancipation Tō Datsu or emancipation is to see inside to see the depth of life or to see the depth of all sentient beings

[34:34]

or to go through to go through something or to do something through and through through and through this is Tō Datsu when you can when you can experience the Tō Datsu emancipation through and through the Tō Datsu itself Tō Datsu is identical with the manifestation the manifestation so manifestation is the emancipation

[35:36]

emancipation itself is absolutely identical with the function of manifestation manifestation is identical with the function of emancipation so both these they have very close relationship in terms of the human life in action in action according to primitive Buddhism particularly Buddha's teaching Buddha says we must take take refuge we must take refuge in the self we must

[36:37]

take refuge in the Dharma we must take refuge in anything else Buddha says we must take refuge in the self we must take refuge in the Dharma we must not take refuge in anything else in this case the to take refuge in the self is the self who

[37:38]

the self who devote himself to do something or who settle on the self whatever he may do this is the self so in Buddhism the Shakyamuni Buddha don't say believe in the God, believe in the Buddha believe in something like absolute almighty what is taught by the Buddha is to take refuge in the self that's why the self is self is always questionable for us what is the self but this self

[38:42]

must be based on the full function of emancipation and then also this self is always relating with the Dharma relating with the Dharma so Buddha doesn't say to take refuge in the self alone this self of course it is very important important point to take refuge in the self but also but also this self must be always relating with the Dharma means the self the existence of the self is always

[39:43]

embracing embracing everything based on the principle of the Dharma so the the Buddha says always when he says you must take refuge in the self the Buddha always says you must take refuge in the Dharma also this is very important so self you must take refuge in the self and the Dharma because this self doesn't exist alone this self exists relating with all sentient beings this is Dharma then next verse the the Buddha declines

[40:47]

declines that you never take you mustn't you mustn't take refuge in anything else according to the Lotus Sutra I think the chapter 4 title is the faith and comprehension comprehension the meaning of the faith and comprehension is the same meaning as Dogen's statement great Tao of Buddha Tathagata is ultimately a full understanding of emancipation

[41:47]

and manifestation in the Lotus Sutra the faith is faith is manifestation manifestation is the full expression full revelation full revelation full function of revelation of the self self-revelation revelation self-manifestation full function of self-manifestation this is Genjo Gen means Gen as adjective means to be present to be present the other verb Gen is

[42:49]

to be to be to be in to be in Jo means the this is verb Jo means to become to become the presence after presence presence after presence in other words moment after moment our life must be in the domain of becoming becoming and being becoming be becoming be being become this is Genjo so I translate as I translated before Genjo is full function of self-manifestation this is

[43:49]

Genjo so in Lotus Sutra the faith is the full manifestation full function of self-manifestation and the comprehension in Lotus Sutra is to see inside to see the deeply life to see deeply life to understand through and through what it is through and through as it is this is comprehension and if the usage if the modern usage if the

[44:51]

modern usage is followed followed I may say I think the great Tao of Buddha is ultimately the the what would you say full function fully function fully the function of the advance and the religious security in peace resting in peace what would you say religious security or imperturbability the fully the function of

[45:52]

advance and the imperturbability plainly speaking particularly using the modern world I think the emancipation is how to advance how to advance in other words what is direction what is direction of life in other words what is the objective objective objective which we must aim at this is emancipation emancipation in other words the advance advance direction of human life

[46:54]

direction of human life this is emancipation how to do how to face how to face in which direction we must come we must face right now on the stage of here and now this is emancipation and genjo manifestation is plainly speaking particularly using the modern world the imperturbability imperturbability in Japanese means means comfortable comfortable means mind mind imperturbable mind

[47:56]

imperturbable mind genjo genjo or the full function full function of self-manifestation is the comfortable the state of comfortable mind the state of imperturbability in mind the state of mind in imperturbability this is the genjo today I would like to explain more I found very interesting the comic written by the Uchiyama Roshi in Kyoto he draw

[49:03]

some comics pictures like this this is very interesting Shojo-san's teacher so I would like to explain this a little more concerning the genjo and todatsu and genjo the first first picture first picture is this is man man standing man standing like this can you see it? no the the first picture

[50:04]

is that human being exist independently independent dependent independently independently there is no connection no connection among the people so as mentioned before you have to be born by yourself you have to die by yourself no one help you when you die there is nothing to carry with you when you die so from this point you have to exist you have to be alive by yourself for yourself this is the picture the first picture for instance

[51:10]

I want to say I think in the Zen story concerning the Zen master Tozan he practiced the Zen and his master for long years but he didn't he couldn't attain enlightenment so one day he want to he wanted to go out of his temple because he thought he thought it was nonsense to stay at his temple under his master because there was nothing to get from his master

[52:23]

so he made up his mind to go out of his temple and at that time master said to visit to visit at the Obaku Zen temple so he visited he visited there and he asked Obaku Zen master what Buddhism is Obaku Zen master gave blows gave 30 blows on his shoulder and then he came back to his master's temple and said explained what would happen what had happened at the Obaku Zen master

[53:23]

his master also gave the 30 blows 30 blows on his shoulder then his master says go again to his temple to Obaku Zen master's temple then he explained about what had happened in front of my master when he came back Obaku gave 30 blows again and he discouraged completely he came back again to his temple to master's temple on his way to his temple he stumbled over the stone and then at that time

[54:31]

he said, Ouch! then the moment when he said he shouted, Ouch! he attained enlightenment Ouch is very important for him not only for him but also it's important for everybody this Ouch comes from exclamatory self exclamatory self there is no amount of argument or discussion you know the shout

[55:33]

Ouch Ouch is the expression of yourself before something goes through your head after the experience of something saying Ouch you say I feel pain I feel pain inward I feel pain when you say I feel pain it is expression something like expression coming from coming from coming from your brain thoughts thoughts but Ouch

[56:33]

is the absolute expression absolute expression before some experience goes through goes through your head did you understand? when your experience goes through your head you can say I feel pain you can express it what you feel inward you say I feel pain but Ouch in terms of exclamatory self Ouch is completely the absolute expression without

[57:36]

any thoughts any thought any significance any significance when you say I feel pain this expression has some significance or you feel pain I am sorry poor boy like this then the exclamatory self in terms of the expression of the experience through the exclamatory self saying Ouch is it is it is the self it is the self who cannot repeat again repeat again

[58:37]

as mentioned before you must break the wind in the domain of the world where you cannot ask in the domain of the

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