Bicycle Wheel Dharma

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Saturday Lecture

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so the basic and understanding of a citizen is sentient beings and buddhas are not to
so ah
we have to
investigate with mean by sentient being for ordinary be actually ordinary be and buddha
with was buddha what is ordinary day
and a we speak of a buddha an ordinary building and it's two things
ah so but the two things are one thing and this a basic understanding real it going to understand this but what does it really mean for a life

and earth a call on wonderful
go i live we all know
mr joshua when he was a young monk sixty
as his teacher of nonsense
what is the way
nonsense uncensored or mind is the way
and joshi said
ah well should i seek after it
edmonson says if you think after it
he's done past
and if you don't seek after it nothing happens
so
wonderful coleman this is the go on over life
this like what his practice and how do you do it
they weren't as good a fit him
when i was a other
the
i have so many thoughts on this you as a matter of elimination
well as i was
contemplating this question than my office i was looking at my bicycle
and i haven't like because really nice looking bike
but i looked at the wheel and i realized is like a wheel
the hub
is buddha
and then the spokes
ah ha
the emanations of buddha
and the wheel the the tire and the nvidia
ah and we'll ever been felt a wheel is
our
ordinary life
so our life revolves around looters
mouth
two ways to think about this one is
the alarm
the aspect of oneness in the respect of duality so we're speaking from the point of view of duality but you just fine as long as you understand that is also wonders
so in a interest essence the buddha is the hub
and her life revolves around the hub
but the hub and the wheels and exposure all one piece
so
ah
esoteric buddhism we have my vagina
borrow china is the hub by return of buddha is the hub
and all the viral china does this emanate flight
we have various ways of thinking about light
we have an idea about light filled with a light
oh yeah sunlight
for flashlight for fire but ah innocence like if you if you have a whole to those
views of light than you miss the point
if i look at my hand can you say well that's my hand but i can also say that light
so if you have an idea about what light his finisher will know that's not right at your hand
so
our life revolves around
in innocence viral china buddha
light emanates from viral china buddha than enemies
our
transformation life the life of transformation so when the bicycle is moving
the wheels go round
that's transformations
but they go around this the hub stay still
the stillness emotion or the two aspects of buddha an ordinary life for new
ordinary of course has two aspects
but we usually think of ordinary as transformations
and the activity
i'm so our life is the activity of the activity of our life is the activity of stillness
stillness is buddha
stillness is also activity
but strictly speaking in this dualistic sense
put it is stillness
by rotana is perfectly still but dynamically
active
within stillness
this is regime we enact this understanding through zaza
this is exactly what version is
when we said we say this my activity with moody's activity
with all from buddha somewhere
he's not some buddha for whereas activity is your activity because you are buddha
when you think is my activity than you forget about buddha
cause we are to forget about both of them
but
the system surfaces don't stray from essence of mind
through all of your activity don't stray from your essence essence night and this is practice
this is reality
so to only be at one with isn't for mind which is viral china buddha which is the hub of all of your activity
when we sit in zazen we are actually viral giant buddha
because were emanating lights that's what it is but you say well where's the light
if you have an idea about what ladies you can't see it
the buddha has a halo
this is an image that illustrates this thing which you don't ordinarily recognize
but sometimes we do
i remember kind a hearing mushy
say
ah the a body surface halo is the whole universe
so you can sit with for a minute
us

you can see it because you're looking for something a little but it's quite big
the enormous
i'm
joshua asks nonsense what is the way
nonsense as ordinary mind is the way
so what is ordinary mean
we take an ordinary to is as our usual activity
but ordinary is also buddha
our ordinary activities is buddha as a good at activity
our ordinary mind
our ordinary activity is just based on stillness
sir
the over activity where's where's the center often people say when i leave the zendo
how do i practice
in practice exactly the same way
in practice realizing or
ah
put your mind here at the center
miss said this is my center this is your center does the center of the universe
this is for for all practical purposes is not scientific for all practical purposes this is the center of the universe
so is at the bottom of my breath
breathing in and reading out
when we breathe in we come to life a moment to breathe out and the other said we are born when we breathe in
inhaling were born and when we exhale we let go
i don't want to say we die but we do
and then we come back to life to birth and then will let go and become active earth and we go
this is why letting specially herself important i remember specific version in his talk with a is more important to be able to breathe out the debris them another who that's interesting
but i realize now what he said
because in order to live our life totally completely we have to let go
when we inhale we tend to want to hang onto life or hang on to
something
difficulty grasping
jeremy politico
it gives us the opportunity to start life afresh
so each moment we start our life fresh
that's called beings appearing and appearing totally and holy and each movement

you know when we breathe
which is a very important act
when we are holding on we tend to breathe up here
when we really appear in her a providing a chest
tom this is clean
and the cause all kinds of physical and mental problems emotional problems
to be able to actually breathe to let go
and little deeply when we say breathe deeply the really means to let your deeply
and then we can start
our life aloof on each breath we have this opportunity and his breath to start our life
are completely in a new way
i'm so that way we always are centered
so that's why was this is the center said bottom of the griff where he die
and then you come back to life
in buddhism there's a lot of talk about reincarnation and reverse notice but and a lot of speculation and about many lives and alice but actually if you really
i'm kind of way in breathing
he realize death
birth and death are continuously happening in the realm of
transformations
this is new modify the buddha
the realm of transformations you are buddha in the realm of transformations nothing is repeated
i'm repeatable universe
and so every moment is that isn't new
aspect of life
and if we don't allow ourselves to the freedom to let go
it's hard to appreciate how far from our life on each moolah as it arises
so this is what's called freedom
and this freedom from suffering
can we suffer by holding on
but we think that we suffered by letting go
but just the opposite
the more we hold onto the movie where a cause of suffering
so
his rhythm of breathing is so important
the basic fact of our life
so breathing is
ah
letting go coming back but
brings us to our center
where will we can breathe deeply
i am
no we have composure
and composure true composure is to be centered on the hub so that the our life is rotating in activity around the still hub
so invest in
who is sitting without moving and without discriminating around
and have a tab
and then only go out into the world
this the reverse or life is an activity
but
the hub of our life is the vital place where we should always be focused
which gives us equanimity
who can settle this so always settled on a habit
but we get off because we forget the hub
and we get lost in the activity
and our life is only so long
sometimes i think in this way i can't help thinking this way
there's like the world this world is like a day
ah a corridor
in this world for some reason
and when migrate through and then with leave it
so to speak
it seems like we come into the world and leave the world but actually
they simply are rising and falling
we don't go anywhere
it's out
ah
understood based melisa nurses that
our life is ah
life is potentiality
and when the conditions are
i'm i come together certain conditions him together
by arise as a myself and when the conditions are no longer there
i'm ah
ha
ah i no longer exist as this person
but there's no coming from someplace are going to someplace is simply manifestly and not manifesting
when the conditions arise we manifest and then when the conditions in outright or not correct for that manifestation
we are disappear
but we're always here
we're always here there's no place that we go to are no place that we come from
this a basic understanding
when the wheel is turning
the conditions arise because motion makes conditions arise
and when the motion when other promotions or
i've ben are
working together high-rise and winner not a satirizing
but there's no place to go
so
ah we are always present in one form or another
this is very different than usual way of thinking about we go to heaven and we go to hell and we exist in the same way
but that's not so
according to british honor
but
a basic life which includes birth and death
he's always present
so instead of being centered around birth and death
we're centered on life
which is not the opposite of dying
what the like to size of a coin birth and death the coin itself is life
we have to use this term in a in a non dualistic way

so when we when we are life centered
instead of centered on birth and death
we don't have so much fear
yeah had interesting that
in this passageway soda stay
everybody
patients henderson is it
so
some as someone said
hum
don't worry when you die you know how to do it
everybody knows how to do it at the end
you're facing down
so what is it
the big question what is it
you know me to think of our life we think of time
time
as someone said times either time insects or we ate time
our either devoured by time or with a time when we devoured by time it means that were enslaved by it
and we allow it to control it
but when we eat time we don't allow time to control us because we're living in the present on each moment
when you were living in the present on each moment there's no time time is concerned with past and present
and past and future
but you can find the present
we're all here in the presence but she grasped the present because it's already the past
if we live in the past were caught by the past if we live in the future were caught by the future
if we live in the present
reclaimed by the present which is pretty good
but it doesn't exist but that is everything is present so
it has points to something you know he can explain it exactly but it points to something

so ah
in our practice
if you know
how do you practice when he can
where if you
chase after it
this elusive
and you stumble past during don't do something you never get to understanding
so how do we do that

so what is ordinary
buddha is ordinary and our life of activity is ordinary
ordinary way ordinary life as the ways but ordinary life means being buddha

you know everything from run in circles when i was looking at my bicycle wheel
i can see that it was a circle
and circles
the basic things your life the world is a circle our world is a sort of all the planets or circles
because everything is rotating and moving in that way
and
stephen and this planet even though we're upside down but whereas applied to the noise downside there's no upside or downside
we don't fly off the world with we hop up and down but you know in various ways but most compact
a
so where's the center of the world
the center of the world is what keeps us on the planet
cause drastic reputation of pole
well he pulled toward the center of the earth
we may go to the moment is just a kind of long shot
but polled the center of the earth and the access the
that rotate that the earth's rotation is the same access that we rotate around
in the western
religion he says that a person is created in the image of the creator
and certainly we are created in the image of a buddha
which it means
reality
we rotate around
the center
so to always be centered is our practice this is buddha
the always be centered and
when we consented the me
our vehicle for life
so what his purpose of being human being
make money
have a things
have fun
avoid pain
what does it mean you foot what when you want
the button search for it in different ways
and it's like a maze of all these dead ends
i think for a buddhist for someone who first
a practicing the dharma and has understanding to be a vehicle for light is our purpose
this is called
of being free from suffering
police as my main purpose of buddha dharma is can be free from suffering
but you can't really escape from suffering
that's another column how do you typing you escape from suffering when
suffering is it is philip
gimmick to being alive
how do we free ourselves be free within suffering
also how do we free ourselves from causing suffering for ourselves and others

so it's not that will become buddha or become enlightened but how old were free ourselves or to allowed buddha to lead
well then ego
when we say ordinary vain but we really mean is he going to thing
because there are no ordinary days
the only buddhas
oh pam
ah
a free from ego
so if we're half butter have ordinary being
who's leaving
who's doing the directing
that's that's com practice and so ah buddha becomes an obstacle
good is is an obstacle to her life
because
you know we want and i are life of desire
is
tito and buddha concerns and it and says that's not gonna help you
this is the way to go
and we reluctantly go that way or remains happily go that way but still there's so much resistance for their ego
sir
to turn ourselves over to buddha barbuda this new noodles
this call the direction of practice
what is the practice what is the dow how do i do this we turned herself over the buddha and that to to lead and then we have to
think about who and buddha
what does that mean
so
our life is a call on this is called tony cause it the ginger go on the on of our daily life as it unfolds
i'm every moment we have described we have this corner every moment and all the coins to two hundred and fifty thousand and off for all his car

but if we keep if we the if if we stay centered
then our wheel of life will be
we're going a smooth way
you know the earth itself is not a circle exactly is a complete oblate spheroid the off and so we're little bit off because we like to this only fairly
so we're kind of eccentric
of center you know remodel and and but that wobbly his vitality
whenever at all my life i have thought
there's something
imperfect about being a person is something extra that extra thing is what
gives us vitality and also gives us lot of trouble
so

pluto is a lot of trouble but
i also leads the way
so some

you have any questions
in the beginning of of your lecture is served that suffering is caused by unfolding on clinging are grasping not letting go and that you can have freedom find has been able to fill go
and that was an industry that was not suffering and positive and the and for the end he said and that was suffering is endemic to life yeah
so he said am suffering isn't damage alive for their defenders me we can't let go of it
i stop causing it
no
if i say
i don't like this for i don't want this there's a bit been suffering enough and a defender your is you don't want to don't like
they can be a lot of suffering a little bit suffering
so letting go is also acceptance
politico and politicized when as letting go the others are ready
right so letting go grasping and of really are the two to aspects
that's suffering the with a bye by
refusing to look at something or accepted a second what is and by grasping to what you want soon if you're very good at letting go you might know how your parents might die in childminder plethora of us
as painful
and and you're not gonna like that i think the matter how enlightened are fred i imagined
the jets and accept it and has any also accept a suffering
because suffering i didn't see the sufferings go for us
well as sorrow and it is difficult is very different from another ten there's different flavors of is actually one
right well there are many words but we will we do use that one word yeah
it's i love you know where the sensor so many different things so yes that's right and agree with you i mean whether the threat of not i agree with you
but
it's important to to be able to suffer you know we have to be able to accept suffering if you can't accept suffering
you can't be free of it
another layer is you have to eat
the after the except your own for him a try and
before you can make over sometimes maybe you can actually let go
oh yes after you accepted the children failure it before it can tell yourself these things that are difficult to like have to deal with even
so you know
a second sir
ah
realization is in that way very important that being a hero
we don't want like suffering for it if we can accepted when they realize it or don't like it
and that that changes it
himself
ha
and
being able to accept suffering
yeah ah they're not trying to avoid it
is
maturing
so she said the flight manifests out of causes and
rise propulsion
motion
when you get on the bike you start pedaling
a person yeah well
answer your question but
for all practical purposes yes but ultimately
it's go to the federally can you please a little bit
how much is it the saudi attention
and how much as it is the full dynamic for getting her good at it's all buddha even the ego he goes off a buddha
but buddha
there's an article for ego
so are we creating with concreting on are egotistical suffering without realizing that it's that that's what we're doing so you're sitting that funding necessary you in this is the obstacle alive
yeah so we need for legal you know
but
i'd like to think of it as cooperation
it's a co operation between buddha and me then how do i reconcile that are with that i'm
all the time is buddha doing that but he goes necessary in order to r illusion of life
he was strictly illusion but we need the drama you don't need it but we can't help it
the only way you can eliminate the drama or reduce the drama is by cities and overtime
the and if we let all drama
and then when you go back in the world you pick up the drama
from the south
listing actually
so the practices to
offer your services the buddha
called comparison
well offer your services the buddha
i'm you know that this is if you read the monkey monkey king
the restaurants on who is this great saint is accompanied to the western land by the by the monkey in the and the v three the is city of you know and they're helping him actually to do this so they've offered their services to the say
eight
the help him and his ocean wonderfully saintly that totally naive only keep saving him from ali seen but the saving themselves with the same time
yeah
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everybody's laser lipo
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