On The Bodhisattva Ceremony

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the too long ago reflecting the fifteen minutes ago we have we finished our
the bodhisattva what we call her very sad for the ceremony
huh
i ceremony of
so called repentance or confession or
acknowledgments over many different ways to explain it to japanese term is so gay
it's has other meanings but how to explain a bit about to the structure of the ceremony
why we do that and how different have of different from the usual understanding of what a religious

we then original
cut your emotions
explanation
calgary motionless
suzuki roshi his assistant at psychology which will give us she was teaching there
oh and he came to
the coach kind of hear you as she came to psychology one year before we became a nineteen sixty three i came an empty fifty four
and he was a teacher to me i had five or six japanese teachers are there at that time and each one was different and i've had a great
variety of
the way this various teachers operated and personalities were different than other ways of teaching were different and how they're grown thing
at the time
and so i kind of your ios you he became an avid of minnesota 's and center eventually
after suzuki roshi died
the
in it
in a ceremony
the ceremony starts out of j
oh my ancient twisted karma
from beginning to screen hate and delusion
lawrence your body speech and mind i know fully well
this is
prevented ceremony so we we here we say tangled and like to tangle
it's allergies that
better get interested in sometimes says there is evil but
and some people say well buddhism because their season of but actually there is so
but i think it's not just a new low karma because evil of courage extreme sometimes who are of those years to
does it mean to transgressions which are not really evil than just kind of stinky
so i think of evil as an intentional act which
ah in which will take pleasure at the distress of others
creating situations
yeah
like catch on fire and laughing getting all
ah but all my ancient
dangled twisted evil karma
from beginning the street ill will or hate filled well i think covers more and delusions
agreed green and ill will or
and aspects of delusion eventually they arise as the delusion is the case
so ah
so if we can't really be we can
be sorry for our delusion but to level that we can do about it because we to dilute to understand it
so and boy through
our acts which is a body speech which is a do when we speak about each other and things and the way you think mind so fully allow memes
there it is
nothing hidden nothing
think so
confession in this in our then understand your confession is not you notice here there's not saying i did this and i did and i am please excuse me and i want your
ah
what i want you to acknowledge finish and released me and so forth so this is this guy
heard of them
repetitive is universal repentance it's it's like acknowledging our ancient times not just as present coma or something similar theme that we have no idea of how much how much how we do with the world he was
no we do a lot of good and we think we do a lot of good
we have no idea how we destroyed were distract the world around us as well as building it up and so forth but we don't know and from can truly beginning beginning us begin
so it's not just to my own karma it's because we do this ceremony together this is a ritual
that we all do together and so it's a collective karma
like ears were collected but i with
it's a carload we all share
and it's impossible to delineate everything and so it's a way of
creating a peaceful
ah
free space in the universe
in the midst of the ah
the transit universe
i read you cut your emotions way of expressing it
and also to to this a different translation of got that
all the karma ever created by me doesn't say good or bad
just all the time i've created by me karma means of volitional action that's not a pinch of them their up
so we talked about government usually talking back the result
my bad karma just happened to me but it's actually what we did
then is the results that altogether it's gonna since of old through greed anger and self delusion
my body speech and thought and that take full confession of it
so he says in buddhism repentance does not mean to apologize to someone for an error can't mistake
that is also okay but as love with the same on it's about
the original the repentance and not to ask forgiveness from someone for what was done
repentance is that a preliminary stage to enter the buddha's world are to a good person
if repentance is understood in this way we fall very naturally into the trap of dualism a big gap is created between us and whatever object we try to make repentance for or two
and that will always cause some confusion
so he says real peace is that found in division
so the purpose of this profession is to find peace
the world
create a peaceful place in the world
repentance and buddhism is to lead us to be present
right in the middle of peace and harmony
it is the perfect openness of our hearts that allows us to hear the voice of the universe beyond the irritation of our consciousness
repentance itself makes our life perfectly peaceful
and
so this is like getting beyond the nuts and the clots and the blocks of our mind in our hearts to to totally lack of of all that
which is so difficult
which we carry around all the time and we're continually creating
we're continually creating bath and caught and
ah
stoppages then
keep us prisoner
so this is our way
allow yourself to be free
we carry so much every sentence or fears or
ah
jealousy is our resentments
oh this is carried with all our anger
that is
a shapes our pastures
the shapes our way of acting in the world
and all of these negative emotions and feelings and attitudes
i'm transfer to our surroundings
so this song in this confession is letting go is to sit in letting go into the universe
it it's personal and impersonal but his personal in the whole universe is after yourself that's personal
weekend personal means my this entity my personal means the whole universe you say the true body maturity of a body is the whole universe
i remember category one thing the bodhisattvas halo is the whole universe
so this is like
this actor confession
is to purify
a body mind
together we do this and trying this peaceful place in the midst of
is the pearl in the midst of the pile of shit

so when kathy says
when contemplating the significance of repentance and zen buddhism there are three conditions to consider
that we should realize the world of the compassionate heart

that's a self must be relevant was readily accept and the compassion a buddhist world
and that we must set in motion
the interactive communion between us in the universe
so ah
people like
where's my what is like daily practice
and what is what is the meaning of i have wrapped pressure check what is the meaning of precept precepts his compassion
hmm
you know they're there
three ways to understand precepts
patricia bar
it introduces to what we already know god precepts

the precepts
heart
we will we think our precepts we usually think of the ten prohibitory precepts or the ten could remind precepts
the positive and negative
and then thera sixteen percents
three so-called refuges
i take refuge in buddha i take refuge in dharma i take refuge in saga
so that's pretty simple
and then the three pure precepts to do what is good from can do it is good to avoid gilles and to
save the many beans
two
the your life too
trying to understand how to help people
it's not just help people who let our people
go are we
what if i were just off separate entities fighting each other at the what
you are looking for some advantage
ah

who
what is the fundamental thing
everyone is looking for a fundamental thing scientists are looking for the most fundamental thing
religion is from lucky for the fundamental thing
why we need to fly fight on fundamental thing
promotion why should we do that
well so that will know how to act in the world
don't we already know that
some people act this way some people like that
we'll have our own ideas so what is advertise itself together or do we need to be tied together or should we just fight each other the and and king and amount of work a horse forth
that's i've been
but
how can we all acted in a way that satisfying and real
let's first the third through a precept
yes the haven't you find a way to act in the world that is real and it's beneficial to humans to animals to vegetables into the earth
so not to do what can do it is beneficial
matondo is harmful than to find out how to really make that work
cause the three pure presents
another a prohibitory presets but
a gel
not to take what is not given
that initiates sexuality to refrain from false speech that to sell
the wine or drugs they create delusion
that to slander
not the praise herself at the expense of others not to be avaricious not to hundred and will
not to abuse the three treasures
the
the decider the tin precepts
so there's the literal meaning of the precepts which i just read
so the first like
i don't want to say suggestions that's too easy
guidelines for her behavior but they're not the ten commandments
let me hear you live
but when you read the literal meaning of the precepts it looks like you should is why you should do and i'm not saying it's laugh but
there are three different levels of presets
that we should understand
hum
so
these are the literal meaning of precepts the essential meaning a research is good as precepts
buddha nature precepts which means
there are
saying that the presets are beyond our understanding
the way the world works is beyond our understanding the world has its the universe has its own presets and follows its own percents
the universe follows its own preserve and
it's beyond our understanding piano desire to have a different way something as gerry badges it
things happen
when he was looking at the bridge
happens yes that's right things happen and a yonder so this is the universal precepts
that the universe follows and we although it would like to have a different way it's the wages so but then also affects us
the universe presets definitely is part of my life and affects us
so this is the way things happen the way is and we have to follow that way
and then there's a human precepts averages
the literal precepts
so
but the precepts of compassion is called the living precept for humans
the living precept is not written down you can't find it in a book it's how you
the circumstances nombre de mama and with and how do you meet circumstances moment to moment how do we do that do we need circumstances the anger
do we meet circumstances with
mv during the circumstances with love to meet circumstances with possessiveness
well for
the buddhist greenlit circumstances with compassion
for compassion is
the expression of wisdom
so with them
has many facets but wisdom that we were that way that is important here is the wisdom of pragya intuitive wisdom
the late mr
not so much learned wisdom
but wisdom that comes out what through your freedom
compassion and genders wisdom and wisdom is the
progenitor of compassion
so
if we need circumstances with compassion that we have a basis for knowing how to meet them
we meet every circumstance with compassion
so
when we when april arises when henry arises when all the second of his feelings come up and drive people are always asking about this how like what do i do and my echo devices what do i do when
jealousy amazing that if i do in my avaricious arises
you come back to compassion
how can i meet the circumstance with compassion
so
the this
presets are columns each pressure is a car because
like what is it
how
how can i give it for death
the living precept
no one can tell you
you know people want to know how to do things but it's up to each one to find that way and finding that wasteful practice
well we talk about practice
there are many facets of practice but very about the very most important facet of practices how can i do this
you know the why question why should like to initialize you like you can go on forever about what it's like just pringles ever find out the true reason why things are the way they are
the fundamental reason
how is how to be present in this moment
how to act in this moment
in the correct way and there is no correct way
since there's no correctly how to live at correctly this moment
what's the bottom line
it's compassion
react to find out what that means
we have various definitions you know but all those definitions are just trying to guidelines
we have to be able to this is felt imposition

we have to improvise all the time
but we'd like to have rules you know i like the know to the road
but the heart of the rules
which that only act according to rules would become very rigid and then you put a grid and life
but life is like this it's like a fish it's like a path and fish or the path of the bird
we need rules if of course
but
it's in between
how do we actually practice with the rules so the rules or not
binding as by freeing us
do you find our freedom within
this difficult world
how do we find a peaceful place within this difficult world
sanjay his profession this cinema it's not just something we we don't want to much and that brings us all together and it's the wonderful if the whole world was to do this at once
i don't know who make a difference in
what should i vote for that moment just a man
we often fighting in africa
like a john get what he did then india still it back
but it is
but if everybody's it does the point of sale the point of this is this community techniques and doesn't stop as a communities from doing this as well we wish that everybody because this puts it's very effective
somebody just walked in his
navy captain
but we are just too if and it's
in refreshes the whole community
since sir
if we take it seriously understand what it just it were doing
the sangat practice confession is the most important parts
yes it's totally free and totally us for that moment yet each bow is total is how we three or so when people come in to the window into it don't have the experience this year's for going
the every about the commercial rebounded a cushion rebounded and of with that nothing it's a little excessive
i think there's a really excessive
ah but it's like moment to moment we're letting go
that's why how we power is really important
look through
i think i've posted a spoon
because she's supposed to be this is the this like
we're totally communicated what are we communicated in the bad about this total sellers everything is gone
this is this is confession
everything's got and we start all over again and we come up
the from not been living i like mama combined with their freedom
so we put our heads together know this isn't
the six world human world the head of a world hungry ghost world fighting demon world
the animal world and we have sure their the
and the
the world of an angel of thursday knowledge
bodhisattvas for check a good of our hats and buddha so this is like a high around for the status of all around
now we can put them together that the bengals he added that the pump together for our thumbs together felt like this
ah so all worlds coming together in tobacco
and then
got and if the end of the bow total stillness if you just go
it's not that you had to tap
stop the whole universe is based that stones if this is buddhist sites
this pseudoscience
that so
the basis of everything is still lives
emma it's logical the basis of everything is stones
activity comes out of stillness
so
everything comes back to school no matter what comes cover
of them
everything comes down even the
a
the spiritual heavenly practices i'll go up but eventually they all come down everything comes down
stillness is the basis and activity is the expression
so
can always been
ah ha
ah
settled in stillness no matter what the activity is called service we should set off yourself and the self which leaves and herself in stillness
so that's why we should seven
we we can really still
there's no separation because you know no activity in that sense but the dynamic
the donut whole dynamic
activity of the universe is present in saturday
all that potential energy is there
let's go peace
so
and you know
if there's something of the and wobbling pivot
this is total stillness no activity
everything is in perfect balance we don't like perfect balance because it's not interested
so everything is the perfect balance and then as soon as and tips over his polls then they start to move and is called eccentricity
sober l eccentric we are
relic should grab oliver eye movements are eccentric
and then we come back to this concentrate
concentrated center
so southern is the concept is sitting on the concentrated incentives and all that is contained in this one act
so the whole decorations there in peace
you know this terrible steps going up
but this is how we create peace in the world
we can create pushed through legislation
some people are trying now
support
right doesn't work
if everybody has this come down
everybody has to set the center of the universe the same time
and
oh our minds and bodies and breath and
activity
can merge with my piece and then we can understand each other
then we can all have our individual
delusions
but
the sunday list
factom
and
stead in the center of the universe
i'm sitting in the center of the universe is the
met
most important act activity that we can get
we try to figure it out other ways that doesn't work
we stumble along until we die

so i'm going to be leader for calgary machine says
whatever we feel from our lives animate indiana and but beings and peacefully embraced by this compassion
this is why we can live every day we're not making mistakes are not making mistakes
the other failure or success beyond pros and cons so this is
cause nationalistic understanding because just confession it's not about i made a mistake but didn't make him stay and good or bad from right or amraam it has nothing to do with that
learning to do it in law
that's usual
but that's not a few
it's not that we shouldn't do that
the animals
ask me forgiveness are giving forgiveness is really important to her life but that's not what is this goes beyond that has it's it's not dependent on cutter bad restaurant but i did or what they didn't give everyone is reading

you can't forget it although it's good to work at it that that's a different level and this level everyone is begin with that
a session
so
buddhism is the religion of salvation my tray and buddha will come down from to share
sunday but actually
you don't have to wait for the right
my maitreya buddha is in here it's not simple myself
this is this is where case i'll take place in this body this month
so he also says repentance is to realize exactly the oneness emerging all sentient beings and buddha delusion and enlightenment all such a page are allowed to live
and i will be getting forgiven for living their lives in been eric
excuse me for
okay skin is
so then he says the second conditionally have realize is that the self most readily accept the compassion of buddha's world
as world means that truth or the same and one ground that which is beyond good and bad so meaning we have to accept the way things are
a lot necessarily think six a or they're not the label everything is good and bad
as long as and everything as good or bad we can't see what things but things really are because we're creating a domestic understanding
so whether we like it or just like it we have to check this
what is meant by readily accepting british compassion
it means we must actualized buddhist compassion in our everyday lives and we have to live our lives and they complete realization that we are already forgiven
that they are already allowed to live and that we ourselves must make our lives come alive
we are already embraced so we have to live our life in the realization that we are forgiven the who is it that live we live by our effort but this is a narrow understanding so we have to live our lives with the understanding that we are love to live this means we should approach
create our life
so you know
he was offered a credit check
we just haven't been
strangely enough weird because we just happened to be the breath comes in early actually i didn't have anything to do it isn't just
universal activity the blender instead of age just going to irrational activity i mean everything to do it it
so
what should i do
with all this energy i have called this thinking mind and felician and desires
shed do with all that
we should cooperate with buddha
we need kolkata cooperate means i think i do everything or as i think but it does everything but actually it's a operation since we do here three well some people think we don't think we do i think everything we do with three will
even though what compelled
beyond our desire to nappy can tell we are compelled but gets were compelled because our free will put his deposition to be compelled
so we cooperate buddha and myself and didn't have a problem it's just one one piece

hey
when we
put the effort out to practice
practice puts out the effort to respond
good response from real
respond to buddha to the response back to the universe
comes back and responses
this list just an idea i've always found it that's true
and
and they've learned most of you
but even when i was younger i realize that
a good a response to us
not just some guy hakuna the universe
responsible when we
make can ever so this is a dog in means by enlightenment in prayer practice of one thing
no knowledge of making efforts to practice is one moment of the universe responding to us
in the way in something in the wake of enlightenment
enlightenment is my suzuki vs the enlightenment is okay
span
that's a difficult you know is necessary that we will put it appeared on a pedestal that athletic pp off you know
which movie theaters practice
it's not what you get
it's what you do
this important
you have to forget getting anything
as soon as you want to get something you will not get it
get something and you will get it
the only way to get it is to be it
and the other way to beat it is to do it

so of you know she says as world is completely pr and serene quiet and also dynamic it's the dynamism the ocean beyond our thoughts and ideas so very naturally in order to accept it we have to put aside our understanding of such
and put our body in my right in the middle of that dynamism in motion
this is the money or actualizing british compassion

so said the third condition is original
to say that because prisoner like ritual some people do
i do but i don't admit it
yeah
who can exciting team a schedule
because it's it's communion ritual is communion
he said the third condition
while the voices and he says so they would vote
the silence
shakyamuni buddha is the person who obtains itself and subject who practices tranquil silence exactly this is called buddha buddha is exactly the total manifestation of tranquil silence puddings truth if you experience is good against forth its own line from your whole body
then people are moved by your experience the third condition is ritual ritual in buddhism is a tiny dot talk which means the interacting communion of people
i'm so that will interactive convenience of appeals and response is were talking about appeals my favor at action to be spots
the original as content constantly calling the portrait of my life setting in motion the interactive communion between us and the universe
so that's what this confession confessions somebody came here in between herself and the universe
it's not you between just you will mean yes
the whole universe how we come in with universe
and it's been i don't understand
you just do it but we do it was something understand
somewhere something and even though we don't understand it