February 1972 talk, Serial No. 00186
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if you experience if you understand this point in each moment you can relate all of the world at that time most of people will be crazy crazy crazy in a sense it is called Kensho crazy Kensho crazy Kensho so that a person who in that experience the crazy Kensho then look down always look down look down upon everybody who are they are not human being what are you doing I am like person that's crazy that's crazy Kensho they yeah and also it is fantastic
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fantasy religious fantasy it is fantasy they are always playing with religious fantasy concentrating on the object to worship it's pretty not only not only did they them not only the particular person all of us will enjoy themselves to experience such a religious bliss instead of practice Zazen practice Zazen is very strange because the more you practice Zazen the more you realize that there is no sign of the action or effect that's the question is that what you think you think what you think there is
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something something there it's already question questionable if you do Zazen yes not only you but everybody want to think in that way you know if you do something even a little bit we are expecting we are expecting to see something that's why the other before I mentioned before the we we are expecting something what is it it looks like mercury of thermometer mercury of thermometer little bit you are very enjoy after doing something you real if you if you realize that there is no sign of effect it's pretty hard to continue it's pretty
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hard to continue continually to do something that's why I said it's very strange practice but original strictly speaking it is real practice real but ok let me explain them ok ok so far I think through your head I hope you
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will understand the your existence your life in each moment is empty ok that is with no idea no conception just do it just do it or your idea your life is always in pure situation this is life then let's imagine this is life when you try to understand when you try to understand the life we have to arrange our thought a little bit in terms of the two aspect two aspect one
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is this side the other side this side is maybe called nowness or moment or truth or I want to use the purest situation in life situation in life and this side is very concrete aspect in life in in this dimension most people are suffer or enjoy pleasure and song playing or dancing song this is and this is this side is reality reality on which you are very easy to rely on if you miss this reality
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you completely collapse collapse you lose your spirit to live in this world so Buddha always okay okay if you want to dance please do dance if you want to listen to the Baha please listen even though I don't like Baha's music because for me Baha's music is something like a flocking frog Buddha has very huge compassion so this is the art okay this is the art the
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other side is purest situation in life then the when you say truth the truth of life or truth of the human being is to point out total picture of this situation including the purest situation and reality okay yeah don't get the prejudice of just one side mostly mostly we think only this world is mind minds we don't like to see this side because it's pretty hard also if
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you do if you practice this side no signs of reaction and the effect if you do something in reality this side you can always find what's really at the action and effect and great suggestions and this is reality but when you when you try to understand fully that your life we have to see yourself ourselves in terms of both sides so life is the truth of life is total picture of this situation okay so if so everyone can be everyone can be in the purest the
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situation even for a moment you can do that can do that even though the through your head you think I can't I always mention you can do already because you are purest situation means you are already empty no ego and selfishness and you live in the purest situation this is freedom liberation okay the Buddha always see this now also if you want to religious faith you have we have to see this point directly always what is truth and also the other hand Buddha says life is suffering okay life is so what why life is suffering this suffering
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conception of suffering is not the meaning of suffering what you have thought usually okay when you say something is to experience something in this aspect reality okay then you say I suffer I suffer I suffer but Buddha says life is suffering is that life is seen from this side it means life is always emptied emptied no ego no ego office life is going on with no eagerness ego no eagerness no eagerness regardless of the idea whether you like or dislike office empty always empty empty empty but actually indeed human being cannot
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escape this total picture of life including this side including reality then then the mind want to see what life what is life then at that time you realize life is always my life my idea my prize always empty by something that time you feel wow then Buddha says life is suffering when you see in when you see your life in terms of reality reality in terms of reality you see the life you see the life you see the other aspect of life which is always empty which is always empty see when you see your life from this side no troubles it
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is called revelation complete revelation wonderful but we are always stay here and enjoy ourselves then that time at that time suffering but this suffering is completely its original nature original nature before you before you are aware of I am suffering or not so suffering is then Shakyamuni Buddha says life is suffering life is suffering is not pessimism the principle of pessimism life is suffering is the truth because always empty everything is empty so you don't like but actually I would say this is true your life is empty see then this situation when you see this the practical aspect of life in
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terms of this reality it is called life is literally suffering if so whether or not you like or you whether you like or dislike suffering is here did you understand what is suffering then just a minute okay if you understand this total picture of life you will feel relief relief and on the other hand you realize how stupid they have been because so far you're
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always some struggle for your life I want to get the Zen master always no no that you are Buddha please sit but you don't know I can't it looks like you know it looks like you know that what would you call like not rabbit it looks like a rat as a pet hamster hamster it looks like a hamster in a cage hamster is hamster enjoys himself he enjoy himself to revolving continual and also
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human being the same same applies in the cage and also this fear is given to human being you create okay also you enjoy yourself that's great that's why human being is very interesting you can't stop it's really it's really hard to stop let yourself revolving let's feel revolving that's why you are very interesting in your life whatever you say I'm suffer or I pleasure I am delighted in your life whatever you say we enjoy the anyway if you understand the
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whole picture of human life you and you come to understand what what support me what sustained my life originally what sustained my life it's it's something indescribable but anyway it's not abstract sense you can realize through your experience through your daily life you can experience Wow because moment after moment your life already have relation with you know vertical and horizontal relation with all sentient being great if you understand this point
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even not the intellectual that's all right even intellectually that's all right you understand your eyes come to open come to open come to be open Wow huge wonderful then through through the practice actual practice you should that understanding even intellectual understanding should penetrate into your body and mind extended into daily life this is actual practice Zazen intellectual understanding is not enough to satisfy yourself or to settle on yourself with in part of it so we need to practice actual practice through actual practice the your understanding is getting clearer and clearer with
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in part of it okay then at that time the you understand aha enlightenment attain enlightenment because you are already the envelope by you know the great relation with all sentient being in time in space in vertical and in horizontal so that time it is called it is called the person who enlighten who enlighten who enlighten it is called Buddha it's called Buddha then next token says Georgie of one day therefore is the seal of Buddha the
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Georgie the Georgie of one day therefore is a seed of Buddha's then the sea seal of Buddha's so each knowledge of Georgie is the absolute place which enable you to aware awaken yourself what's going on you always turned it up in the parameter sutra avalokiteshvara when practicing deeply depends on right now paramedic and so on was saved from so all suffering valokiteshvara bodhisattva when practicing deeply the partner parameter
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perceived that all five scandals are empty and was saved saved from all suffering and distress so the not the your active the please watch your practice in each moment each moment it is called nowness of George now is George in which your Georgie is empty in other words your Georgie is going on in the purest situation this is Georgie and this is what is called Buddhist practice Buddhist practice then the each each moment of the Georgie it is the seed of Buddha's means it is the great opportunity great opportunity which
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enable you awaken awaken awaken in you each moment moment is great opportunity great opportunity which never you awaken that's why Dogenzin says Georgie of one day therefore is the seed of Buddha's what is your question what was your question oh you saying it's big with the empty or dark with the energy of each moment well Well, the question is, the thinker,
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do you understand completely? Originally, your life is free. Originally, your life is free. It means your life is empty. Not to be affected by your common, or past, or future, or present. Just here. I always call life force. Then the question is, this is also, this is still intellectual understanding, which seems abstract, something abstract. That's why it makes you confused, or it's empty. It's empty. But if you try to understand the empty,
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the purest situation in which your life is empty, through the intellectual sense, it's pretty hard. Then if you understand even the intellectual sense, as a next step, you should consider how we should actualize it in daily life. Actually, in this aspect, which is called reality, you can arrest the moment. It's pretty hard. Okay? So, as long as the perceptions and consciousness reach, could reach, the perceptions and mind should focus on each activity
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with compassionate attention. Okay? Before you try to put your eagerness, what does it mean? Yes. And also, I think, even though you go from here to there, I always mention there is nothing, no signs of effect and reaction. But, as Dogen Zen says, the Gyoji of one day is Siro, Buddha. Siro, which means to enable you, to enable you to awaken in your life. To learn how to let your life be free.
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Moment after moment. So that's why each Gyoji practice of one day, please take the best care of each Gyoji practice. This means your Gyoji, your practice, your activity is always emptied by the relation, the huge expansive relation with all sentient beings. Vertically and horizontally. Hi. Pardon? No? Did you understand?
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