Birth and Death

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very fortunate to have had so much rain last few days
that's a big relief for with you take a little bit longer shower or somerset
well
as you came in you see that we're preparing for battle
nancy mcclellan's
memorial ceremony saturday
so i thought as we talk a little bit about
oh how we
understand the meaning a source of debt the look like record
the a case number forty three
and it's called the case is called tarzan's know cold or heat and very well-done corn and i think i know many of you had felt the score

before it
read go on
i want to remind us of the three foundations of buddha dharma the three foundations of buddha dharma are one nothing is permanent or substantial nothing is permanent or substantial except lesson
oh there is no about yourself
it is the second one another and there's no soul of our permanent he got
but and three
all is saturn
within the bliss of nirvana at number three you know
before the mahayana before the popularity of my letter
was all suffer
period
and then the when my mother became more well-known
the unpopular population it safe
there was ah
and
all is nevada
this is two opposites so to speak
and then but the to or me the more than domain name is all the suffering within the bliss of nirvana
submissions how we are not a dual understanding of suffering and nirvana and then the question comes up well we know what separateness we think
but what does the or whatnot
ah well ah
there's no way to say exactly what nevada is as an explanation you say is the absence of bringing entrance of ill will and absence of
delusion
in other words it's simply a pure
the existence
so what is pure existence
when question leads to them
so
there is a cohen for us
oh
a monk s said said it goes on
tell them he's chosen yokai
dosa virginia jellies
who is the fountainhead of the photo school in china
our ancestor j
so a set to towson cold and heat descend upon us
how can we avoid them
on said where did you go in there is no or heat
promotion where is the place where there was no copper heat
tosa jam when called that the cold kill you
when hot that the he'd kill you
this is gone
just let this cohen has several levels of understanding
ha
when we were first starting to set thousand know
back in the sixties
we
we thought we understood this go on
when it's not that we didn't understand it but we'll just did it on one level
which is
when you have paid in your legs can siphon
you become one with stay
if you don't become one with the pain the pain will kill you
but when are no opposites
just new berlin
nirvana is the place where other opposites are reconciled
the only reason that we have separate attitude the only reason
but the risk that because are on separate
is because we create opposites
he's got doing the right duality we live in the world of duality
where everything has the option
so when we have been we want pleasure
shakyamuni buddha says the reason why we have
saturday and for a lot local truth is the truth of separate why we why we have it is due to
desire
note the designer is wrong or bad is just a desire creates duality
when we have will with is separating stereotype of separate ends of the cause of is not as not having what we want
have you what we don't want
not being with those people that will want to be
and pay with those people that we don't want to be with
and so on and so far
so now out we live in the world of discontent
i think discontent desiccant for two separate filter
so how do we find contentment
in a pleasure pleasure creating pleasure does not create contentment
i'm trying to make yourself comfortable does that make us comfortable were always reaching for something more because as soon as you a comfortable the next step is you're uncomfortable with what you're comfortable with
and then you find another country
can then you become a comfortable with that country so
how do we how do you mean
find her to companies
which cause much cheaper
so ah
let the cold kill you
i remember when you were studying tassajara we had no heat
marina deep valley where the summertime media
and know many japanese creating goes the effect was the practice periods or in winter
in the spring thaw
bow so we learned about what the media corp
and the only way we could be comfortable with to let cold killers in other words to be one with the goal
to not seek an opposite as soon as you don't like it you create separate
in soon as you soon as we try to change
well what are the situation we're in if we can't change it can be shuttered
change what you can but what you can change you have to be one with so this is this is going trendy is a is about how to deal with separate
zen trendy but extremely edited by the rest of buddhism but it basically about how to deal with a situation the situation that you worried without creating suffer or be
victimized by the suffering which you create
there are forces which create several younis of course but the separate that we create ourselves is the suffering never talk about
the so why don't you go to the application of their cold or heat
when ah
but when there's called with the afternoon when it's when it's hot it's as if he'd kill you
i'm
there you go on
a few pinches down bad
how did get as one who dies it's a great death come back to life again
that's a good go on but that's going about our ego
ah i go on about how be

killer go
we have learned kills him it'll kim
talking to them but it doesn't really mean to kill it means to bring some life you can we have magician resort has a into bodhisattva of wisdom and
he kills we in
the brings to life
so chilling and bringing to life is the rhythm of my life
you cannot live without tie
so this come on it's really about person death
who is deeper sense
it's about die and then
so
why don't we like to use the terms life and death because life is not the opposite of death birth and see an episode of jeff
if you want to talk about opposites opposite his birth is the dynamic of our life
and so we call life because we're birth is happening bomber per parliament it's not something that just happened
he said i was born at such and such a time that's one moment of birth if when event because we don't have a memory of before that
we don't have a memory of after the died
so we see our life as this little momentarily
event
bordered by
birth and death
def follows birth father's death follows birth father's death of his both that's the ribbon
and within each moment of birth is the moment of death at the same time
so we talk about
life and death really think about before i entered this world and after i left before
the birth and death
ah to the dynamics of change
our continuous
this is called life becomes life is in the center like a coin
birth phones and is on the other
but birth and death or one point
and hacking momentarily and to syntax
so as we are sitting here birth and death happening
the moment i'm shopping is gone in permit your religion is gone
will never return
is happening on times
and birth this happened on the time to process of life which contains birth and death
when

life is killing and death is resurrected test is killing and as iraqi
death and resurrection is happening at the time
so this is how we need to perceive our like it's not just one continuous
so even though it is
one continuation of each moment is the eternal home
because each moment comes out of emptiness
it's an expression of entrance
oh
so
ah what is your gonna
the environment is the big i'm like totally and completely
let life kill you
that death pretty new to life
we always think an upside-down ways
you think that death is taking something away and like just giving us something propecia just two aspects of the same thing within death his birth within purchase death
we don't like
the idea of time
and more or less like a dick in and being born to we run into trouble
the hermes though i wish out of the report
but then he's change
oh so
how do we coach
separate branches but please don't let about
we can't change change because changed just happens
and so what are you will we have no we have no inherent itself because we are subject to change
and since are subject to change
just nothing to hang onto
greg nothing to hang through so when we let go
which means to die completely die can in the and each moment and be born completely each month
so because we throw ourselves into our activities such are we create life
to just when we when we're alive
he totally alive when did be there
not to do something halfway fifty percent sixty percent seven kids when we are
one hundred percent or ninety percent ninety nine percent of okay

give us a totally to activity and we receive
something told me
it will give a little bit we receive a little bit because giving and receiving is the same things
birth and death is the same thing

when suffering comes from me a hang on to something that's going away
that's the nature of separate to hang onto something to your way it's like when you have one put on a dark will put on the ship
and the ship going away what would you do
this it be great tour
what were you to

so we say there's no birth and death this is the poorest understanding
basically there is no per even though we speak of birth or death
yes in a dualistic sense
in the event of list since there's no birth to death it is only transformations endless transformations
so at each moment
his birth death
when we experience it this way
didn't we become one with life
and we don't have so much fear
the first guarantee
and
our emptiness is the essence of our existence
so
we can understand this through our breathing
pretty they usually after bugs on a time in hayley is coming to life and triggering is where to go somewhere nice women
can be expire inspire expanded as much of it up and down in one group look in and out islamic movement
you can do just one side
it has to be a complete cycle so we live in this cyclical way life is sick or built
we study like as a breath and cyclical it's not display
and so this is how
the buddhists develop the understanding of cyclicality
i agree birth i can tell you about repairs and i can tell you about reincarnation
i can just myself realize that circularity is the essence of how things work
you don't have square meals a day for
hmm
so
a
when we let go of undiscriminating mind even though
i'm discriminating mine is what creates
suffering because we're always do id
and my create unification is
the obama
it says nirvana within our separate
he said oneness within duality
this lesson at birth and death at the same thing
that cold and heat
one
just two aspects of one to where did you find the center
how did where do you find
that place where eaten cold meat
how do you find a pitcher past and future
there is no such thing as future because it just an idea and we expected to keep doing
and it tomorrow
whatever suzuki roshi had a student to i knew very well he's kind of are very lazy guy
but became in the chases would be iraqi and she secured machine in they talked about you know what he was gonna do and she's a she gave him some advice and he said i'll start doing that tomorrow and she's a ocean to look at it and you think there's a tomorrow
he got enlightened
but it lasted because he was lazy

so i'm going to
you know there is a talk and ceremony begins with my best security
about and when he went to yosemite
so when taking her to yosemite many people know this this that it's called nevada the waterfall
so i'm going to read the whole thing but it's slippery one
this is if you go to japan and visit a je monastery
which is one of the to her temples and the solar school in japan
and where suzuki roshi studied when he was young just before you enter you'll see a small bridge
which is called hundred shock will kill which means half tipper bridge
whenever dog in xinjiang the founder of our school dipped water from the river he is only half a typical returning to the read the rest of the river again
well that throwing it away that's why because the bridge hancock who kill half timbered bridge at aig when we wash our face we felt the patient just seventy percent of its capacity and after we watched we empty the water towards i so rather than away from my body the
this expresses respect for the water
this kind of practice is not based on any idea of being economical
it may be difficult to understand when dogan return half the water he dipped to the river
she's kind of practice is beyond our thinking when we feel the beauty of the river but we are one with the water we had to do we do it in tolkien's way it is a true nature to do so but if your true nature is covered by is that the economy and efficient
city
dobyns way makes no sense
so you don't the emphasis of our practice and learn economy or efficiency
ah
he will watch the windows not the concrete the windows are already come the matter of during the i
we shouldn't be watch the windows to watch the windows which is stupid idea
a stupid idea because we're always thinking in terms of efficiency
but this reminds me to have a plan in our wheelchair is arrested on a meal three full meals and agenda at the end we can a test water for my little small bowl and drink out and and offered the rest to
this he said to the spirits the hungry ghosts actions
we returned the water back to nature
booths
and when we serve someone the spoke with a desert which serve toward ourselves instead of electoral myself
so here is this is where his tux actually starts i went to yosemite national park's and they saw some huge waterfall
so highest when there is one thousand three hundred and forty three die
oh yeah informed have a nervous system
and from it the water comes down like a curtain thrown from the top of the mountain
it does that seem to come down swiftly as you might expect it seems to come down very slowly because the distance and the water does not come down as one stream
but the separated into many tiny strings from a distance it looks like a curtain and the water does not come down as one stream of separated into many tiny streams and spice it up so i thought the care and thought it must be very difficult experience for each drop of water to come to
out from the top of such a high mountain
it takes time you know a long time for the water finally to reach the bottom of the waterfall and it seems to me that are human life may be like this we have many difficult experiences in our life but the same time i thought the water was not originally separated but was once
with a whole river
only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling
it is as if the water does not have any freezing when it is one hole river
only when separated into many drops can begin to have or express some trailing only will it separated
our feelings are come from my separation i feel that your separation
individuality
when we see one hole river we do not let fields a living activity of the water we just yet but will we get a part of the water into a dipper we experienced some feeling of the water and we also feels value with the person who uses the water
shitting ourselves and the water in this way we cannot use it in just a material way it is a living city before we were born we had no feeling we were what with the universe
this is called might only or essence of mine
a big mind
after we are separated by birth from this oneness as the water falling from the waterfall and separated by the wind and rugs then we have feeling
you have difficulty because you have feeling you're attached to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created when you did not realize that you are to one with the river when you do not realize that you're alone with the river or one of the universe you have fear
whether it is separated into drops zone up water is water our life and death and the same thing when we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore
the in have left
when the water returns to its original oneness with the river it is no longer in no longer has any individual feeling to it it resumed its own true nature and france composure have very glad to water must be
to come back to the original river if this is so what freely when we have when we die
i think we are like the water in the deeper we will have composure them perfect composure and maybe too perfect for us just now because we are so much attached to our own treatment
to where individual existence
for us just now we have some sure to death but after we resume a true original nature there is nearby
that is why we say to attain nirvana is to pass away
to pass away is that a very adequate expression perhaps to pass on to go on of enjoying would be better
maybe will you try to find some better expression for death when you find it you will have quite a new interpretation of your life it would be like my experience when i saw the water in the big waterfall
we say everything comes out of emptiness one oh river or one whole mind is emptiness when we reached this understanding we find the true meaning of life when we reached this understanding we can see the beauty of human life before we realize this fact every
anything that we see is just the region
sometimes we overestimate the beauty sometimes we underestimate or not guilty because of small mind is not in accord with the reality
to talk about it this way is quite easy but to have the actual feeling is not some reason but by your practice desserts and you can cultivate this spirit when you can sit with your whole body mind and with the oneness of your mind and body under the control of the universal mind you can easily
in this kind of read understanding your everyday life will be renewed without being attached to an old erroneous interpretation of life when you realize this fact you will discover how meaningless year old interpretation was and how much useless effort your head and make him
you will find the true meaning of life and even know you have difficulty folly upright from the death of the waterfall to the bottom of the mountain mount joy your life

so

petra our practice and citizen we can actually
join with the oneness of our lives without
okay
victim of our separation
so this is gone having higher true freedom
true freedom and to napoli a victim of our own
discriminating mind

so
if you have one question
so ah
when a person is faced with having to make the decision without euthanizing it's dog or a friend is
killed in a violent and unexpected way there's something wrong with that person's practice if he has great emotion
our great emotion is great buddha
hum
ah
but
the capital not to being a victim of your the emotions
if you're emotion
takes over
you can become lost
it's important
a feeling about others
he's one thing i understanding of how things happen
is the basis so when we understand how to happen and we have some control over our motion
who don't understand how things happen and our emotion takes over we have no foundation and we just become lost in greek
grief is important understanding is important and when grief and understanding balance each other then we have a that will not be pretty don't become a victim of my feelings or understand
i think i'm so speaking of security and this event that were all grappling with on she went through similar ads
yes yes i just found that is why yes so on are lucky to have some example you know so how you in your experience to encounter
he grappled with that events as a that yeah kansas ten practice show i think it's understanding
painter here at his feelings his loss and thumb is tragedy but he had his understand his understanding
balance his feelings you know we think we're grappling i'm going to grappling with with nancy deaths
what i don't think of it is grappling grappling why rebel
i get the violence sense of violence just putting yourself in current position in the last year conscious consciously you're sitting yourself in position on this eighteen year old com avoid such as if was where is where how how do i worked with this movie
i work i know i kept on more anymore now i need to know how i can he needs me you this it just i thinking it on is how hungry
so why now accepting it as i agree with that absolutely but so we have our emotion
and we have our wisdom
so emotion
it has various aspects like in your confusion so boy
wisdom says this happened
there's nothing i can do about what happened so and wisdom and brings up compassion
so
compassion can absorb all of your emotions so we can have revenge for this is not the right now so how do we express compassion for this person has
and compassion for the prison family and capacity for everybody is it was touched by this which is a lot of people
so
compassion and wisdom printed report compassion and wisdom which is understanding the understand it
you can understand till you to to some extent
but you can just an understated completely because
a week to go back in the steps it's impossible because the steps we totally went back to adam and eve so
maybe i don't i eat somehow something eat it i love just as the only it keeps coming up for me i might not quite sure how to write so well three zero compassion which which brings up wisdom
what can i do
two
stop
this kind of step in the world says
if you can express it that way than something personal how can i bring something positive integers downwards until i'm negative
so kill her in a terrible way she died that's obviously the hidden how can i bring something positive to this
two spaniards the situation
should i use the question
see if sensor questions i can't answer that question boys
but or how to i'm always doing it
i'm not spend something special i have to do and this is what this is my and
the lights will bring peace into the world that's what i was what did we live in for
i don't have to do in a special
and just do what i'm doing which is popular on the other could continue to people's liver been killed in the world you can even access
so
didn't express
you agree we should always experience i agree but there's some transformative
aspect to grieved and that
brings forth compassion which tells you want to do
since comes reactions like it
ever put a of
they am actually you had a second behind you know residents to a short judy
you just said the following year and i'm sure many people hurried out of someone was calling via cell or changes guy yesterday so i'm still not familiar with it
in my thighs challenges are silence but it was then and so as you to are an interchange on how i could steal my heart start to grace is like as i also huh
yeah i'll come back to my hands and just see the screen and do it was needed so as a beautiful teaching of how what was what is alive in the realm manifests and i couldn't control that it's just practice manifesting and so i i just wanted to say that
it is very beautiful st jacques the know
judge so we have to start propellant didn't i just find it i really year
both share this question which is a lot of our physicians and surgeons response
is ah
she's also
on the mark ah
i think that to be the transformative there is this another catalyze element which is actually patients
then
the not knowing what the proper response might be just feeling it and he looked to have the capacity to sit with that not no way with confidence that something will arise that will
that will tell me what to do not all of us you know cleaning our shelley but to trust that that's that's also or practice were sitting there louder the plan without any scheme without any agenda that's what we're doing
hosted by xander and actually that is also a way to live trusted that an appropriate response will lives